iAcademy includes environmental mindfulness in fashion design program

The iAcademy learning institution has announced that it had incorporated environmental mindfulness in its fashion design and technology program.

According to the school’s release, the concept is instilled in all students through their curriculum, which includes projects and lectures that focus on fashion’s current trends and the environment.

It added that it aimed to bring a solution to fashion pollution by helping create competent designers who could be “game changers” in the industry.

“The bottom line of the problem is sustainability. To solve this, we must realize that environmental mindfulness is not just a trend we must follow in the fashion industry but the solution itself that we should embrace,” said program chair Eli Gonzales.

The school cited a Greenpeace.org study, which said 58% of the Philippines’ groundwater was contaminated and 21% of it were from textile manufacturing; and the United Nations Environment Program, which pointed out that the fashion industry was responsible for 10% of all carbon emissions.

It also said the iAcademy program launched events and collaborated with other organizations, such as Miss Earth, to promote the message. – Franchesca Viernes/RC, GMA News