Juan Carlos Obando Makes

Mexico City’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week hewed to the "to thine own self be true" rule. Many aspiring Fashion Weeks let dreams of becoming the fifth fashion capital drive them to replicate international trends and push goofy theatrics. Ciudad de Mexico (or CDMX, as it’s now known) showcased distinctively Mexican craftsmanship, style, and personality. The results were something special.

Clothes presented at the distinctive venues throughout the city (an opulent lake house in the city zoo, a nightclub, and an open-air former school) appeared to grow organically out of Mexico’s luscious environment. Deep greens and fuchsias dominated the catwalks, like they do in Mexico City’s verdurous streets. Sandra Weil showed dresses made with local embroidery and indigenous patchwork alongside a buoyant cape the color of jacaranda. At Yakampot, designer Francisco Cancino incorporated cultural influences of immigrants from Japan, China, and India with Mexican textiles. His hybrids included finely woven gold harem pants that married Indian and Mexican sensibilities, and ponchos within a muted minimalist Japanese-inspired palette.

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Presenting their first full collection for Pineda Covalin, a brand known for luxurious silk accessories, designers Cristina Pineda and Ricardo Covalin stayed true to form by interlocking panels of loose silk into draped dresses connected by ribbons. Their graceful garments looked like advanced DIY experiments in using vintage silk scarves to make whole garments. Indeed, flowing silk was a recurring vision throughout the week, mastered by Mexico City’s strongest guest designer: Bolstering Mexico’s potential as a regional representative for Latin America, the Colombian-born, U.S.-based Juan Carlos Obando presented a sophisticated collection of layered and draped silk dresses, jumpsuits, and skirts that conjured up Halston and Madame Grès with a distinct Latin flavor.

Welcome to the New York primary election, a day when the voting booth lines are long and patriotic spirit in the city is at an all-time high. If there is one accessory to complement the buoyant mood at the polls, it’s the "I Voted" sticker. So how exactly did New York City’s most stylish dressers wear their suffrage pride on their sleeves? Indre Rockefeller planted her red, white, and blue sticker on a lush cherry blossom print, while model Ashley Smith made her paper medal pop with a plaid shirt. And given that logomania has been making a comeback on the runways, it only makes sense that Alexander Wang darling John Swiatek placed his pledge-allegiance emblem next to the Supreme tag on his flannel.

The graphic tee also made a cameo: Artist Jeanette Hayes stuck her sticker next to a pensive Snoopy cartoon, while stylist Claudia Cifu took a sun-drenched selfie with her post-vote memento on a Rihanna tee. The hoodie also came out of the closet for ballot action: Amy Sedaris, for example, gave her primaries ensemble a comical bite with a Bojack Horseman topper. The most amusing of them all? India Menuez’s cat, who wore the sticker fascinator-style, on top of her head.

Do you know who made your clothes? Probably not—and the designers and fast-fashion companies that sold them to you probably don’t, either. That was the overarching message at last night’s Future of Fashion panel hosted by Zady and Parsons, which included speakers Rick Ridgeway, VP of environmental affairs at Patagonia; Quartz reporter Marc Bain; and stylist Sarah Slutsky. Their discussion covered everything from the rise of fast fashion and the garment industry’s carbon footprint to child labor and human trafficking. As much as we love scoring Gucci-ish dresses and Céline-y pumps for the price of lunch, that isn’t how things should be. The industry needs a serious reboot, and making a difference can start with simply adjusting your shopping habits and paying attention to what’s on your clothing labels. Below, five ways you can work toward a more sustainable lifestyle.

1. Know your numbers.

150,000,000,000: The number of new clothing items produced each year.

2,500,000,000: Pounds of used clothing that end up in landfills each year.

2,100,000: Tons of CO2 emissions produced by the apparel and textile industry each year (second only to the petroleum industry).

Between 70,000,000 and 100,000,000: The number of trees cut down each year to make cellulose fabrics such as rayon and modal.

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700: The number of gallons it takes to make one T-shirt.

$91.45: A garment worker’s monthly wage in Bangladesh.

10 percent: The percentage of the world’s total carbon footprint that comes from the apparel industry. (To put it in perspective, the aviation industry accounts for 2 percent.)

61 percent: The percentage of clothing companies that don’t know where their garments were made.

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76 percent: The percentage of companies that don’t know where their fabrics were woven, knit, or dyed.

93 percent: The percentage of companies that don’t know the origins of their raw fiber.

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