Curator Aprina Murwanti was probably the only person who was sad upon hearing the news that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo wore a green bomber jacket at a press conference in November last year.
The new exhibition, “Fast Fashion — The Dark Side of Fashion and Slow Fashion Lab,” at Gudang Sarinah in South Jakarta, discusses the negative effects of fast fashion, while promoting slow fashion as its opposite and alternative.
“The alternative to fast fashion is slow fashion.
For Aprina, slow fashion and fast fashion are also about the behavior of consumers themselves.
In a workshop, I meet a worker who told me that she was paid Rp 10,000 [less than US$1] to 30,000 a day.” In Pekalongan, batik makers still use naphtol as a coloring agent for dyeing batik.
Recent World Bank statistics state that approximately 20 percent of global industrial water pollution comes from the textile industry.
Citarum River, the longest and largest river in West Java, is named one of the dirtiest rivers in the world.
The status is worrisome because the 40 million people who rely on the river use 80 percent of their water for drinking, according to Greenpeace.
In the past, water and the textile industry had an intimate relationship.
Many of Kana’s products have one-size-fits-all measurements to avoid excess production.