TexTalk x T*Agency: The Chemical Equation
On April 10th Textalk returns with a fascinating new deep dive into… chemicals! Chemicals are all around us. They’re in the air we breathe, the food we eat and even make up the molecules in our DNA.
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As magical as this may sound, there’s something deeply paradoxical about them, too. While they are pre-requisites for life to exist, they can be just as harmful for life itself given the wrong circumstances.
As for us, so would the fashion industry not be able to exist without chemicals as it operates today. They “protect” cotton crops from pests, bring vibrant colours to our wardrobes and even make our GORE-TEX jackets water-repellant. However, this all comes with a price. Ever more frequently we hear about the harmful effects of chemicals in the fashion industry. Whether it's the pesticides causing biodiversity loss, the toxic wastewater threatening freshwater supplies or the chemicals we wear on our skin that influence our hormonal health. We seem to be at a point in history where chemicals now cause more harm than good, and we …
As magical as this may sound, there’s something deeply paradoxical about them, too. While they are pre-requisites for life to exist, they can be just as harmful for life itself given the wrong circumstances.
As for us, so would the fashion industry not be able to exist without chemicals as it operates today. They “protect” cotton crops from pests, bring vibrant colours to our wardrobes and even make our GORE-TEX jackets water-repellant. However, this all comes with a price. Ever more frequently we hear about the harmful effects of chemicals in the fashion industry. Whether it's the pesticides causing biodiversity loss, the toxic wastewater threatening freshwater supplies or the chemicals we wear on our skin that influence our hormonal health. We seem to be at a point in history where chemicals now cause more harm than good, and we must find balance before that harm becomes irreversible.
But how can we find balance in an industry that is so deeply dependent on chemicals? How can we find natural alternatives? And where do we start? With the clothes we buy ourselves?