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‘As a country highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change—2019 was its warmest year on record, 2022 one of its wettest—Australia’s extreme weather swings portend the global experience if we don’t limit warming to 1.5 degrees.
Kit Willow knows this, and with her latest KITX collection she deployed fire as a potent motif, and as a warning. Orange and white flames curled around hems and licked the edges of torsos on silk and linen midi dresses. Surreally blurred imprints of blue flames— where fires burn hottest—countered the prettiness of her signature filmy silk dresses with their handkerchief hems and trailing loops in lieu of sleeves.
Galvanized by a change to a more progressive government in Australia, Willow’s message for spring 2023 is that something beautiful can turn on us, if we don’t look after it. “We have extreme weather events that are impacting everything,” she said, and not just “the food we eat. We forget the fashion that we wear is also from the earth.” While a common complaint about sustainable fashion is that it’s not affordable, Willow points out that clothes made from new materials will eventually be the most costly. “Virgin materials are going to be a major luxury and they will be so expensive. We’ll have no choice other than working with waste,” she said, noting that it’s often free and always abundant. “There’s enough material that exists on the earth today that we actually never need to make virgin material again.”
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