I've always felt that the small group of us working at championing a more sustainable form of luxury have been working in a kind of bubble which is only now beginning to scratch the surface of public conciousness. But imagine the solitude that Edward J. Urick must of found himself in when writing "Luxury and Waste of Life". A book which discusses the luxury industry and asks whether the money spent on luxury couldn't be better served by being spent on community focused projects as well as the motives related to the consumption of luxury.
But what make's this work on luxury intriguing is that it was written in 1908! I hope that this is not a statement on the fact that we will always be fighting a never ending battle.
Thanks to Jason, I've just come back from the discussion between James Lovelock and Sir Crispin Tickell at the Southbank Centre where there were some interesting comments from the father of the Gaia Theory on Climate Change and man's relationship to it.
Lovelock opened the talk by raising the complaint that climate scientists, or indeed many scientists, get so carried away in their modelling that they forget the real world....
Or so the title of the Guardian article goes. Everyone like's a feel good story don't they? And this is no different - the story of a man living in the rubbish room of a block of flats, who existed on the margins of society where he kept to himself. There he would carefully create collages of a past life before being discovered and swiftly catapulted into stardom and the heights of the art world.
It's been a good week and now I’m sitting on the TGV to Paris after participating in a conference at the UN in Geneve about Biodiversity in the luxury industry which cumulated in an ethical fashion show held in the controversial UN Chamber of Human Rights & Alliance of Civilizations.
The conference entitled “Redefining Sustainability in the International Agenda” came out of a discussion a group of us had in London during early winter 2009, sitting around a table in the lobby of a Bloomsbury hotel...
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