Vivienne Westwood
The fashion industry plays a big role in wasting, damaging and destroying our environment, but also there are many other factors that play a role in this. for my capsule collection I created a campaign called disposable nature, which portrays how we over use the Earth's resources. These collages represent a post apocalyptic waste land the uses surrealism as a warning. images taken from 1960s protests about air pollution and a collective mix of my own photos and prints create eerie yet intresting perspectives. Using trippy influences from the drug LSD to mimic vibrant and 'far out' colours, which were inspired by Ken Kasey and the magic bus (1964) which sparked the psychedelic revolution.
wiki says 'In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, several events illustrated the magnitude of environmental damage caused by humans. In 1954, a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll exposed the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vesselLucky Dragon 5 to radioactive fallout. In 1967 the oil tanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off the coast of Cornwall, and in 1969 oil spilled from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel. In 1971, the conclusion of a lawsuit in Japan drew international attention to the effects of decades of mercury poisoning on the people of Manama.[26]
At the same time, emerging scientific research drew new attention to existing and hypothetical threats to the environment and humanity. Among them werePaul R. Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb (1968) revived Malthusian concerns about the impact of exponential population growth.' (2017)
