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CHANGE FOR
We chat to Rebecca Klodinsky, founder of IIXIIST, about how she went from fast fashion to 100 per cent sustainable, assessing and flipping the way the brand operates while navigating the current climate.
T
he throwaway culture in
However, for one young Aussie designer it has
Australia is creating a serious
been an opportunity to reset, readjusting the
environmental problem. On average,
manufacturing processes of her $7 million a year
we’re buying 27kg of textiles each
bikini brand, saying goodbye to fast fashion with a
year (including leather and homewares) and then discarding 23kg into landfill, mostly synthetic
new standard. Rebecca Klodinsky, 32, designer and director of
fibres, making the amount of textiles Australians
IIXIIST took this time of uncertainty to completely
consume annually double the global average of
audit the production line of her global brand,
13kg a person. With fast fashion and ‘Instagram’
relaunching with a collection that is 100 per cent
brands few and far, now more than ever is it
sustainable, ethically sourced and produced in
imperative designers make a change for good
child-free environments, just in time for summer.
and get off the fashion treadmill. While 2020 and Covid-19 for most businesses have meant financial backlash and struggle
“Over the past two years I’ve been quietly examining the way I produce,” she explains. “I’ve switched swim manufacturers four times now
through a crippling economy with consumer
due to the treatment and lack of care to the workers
spending shifting, it has been a matter of a sink or
heading up their production lines. Furthermore, I’ve
swim with brands few and far shutting their doors.
been to China three times and also frequent Bali–
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