Ecole Holt Couture – School of Couture Sewing Tailoring and Design’s 4th annual Fashion Event Fundraiser for Making Changes Association Calgary – ECO GLAM – is on Sunday November 17th, at the Calgary Winter Club from 1pm to 5pm.
If you wonder how ecology and glamour could possibly synchronize, then you might want to see this year’s fashion event. Ecole Holt Couture’s shares its view on how using high quality materials, extreme craftsmanship, and on how focusing on individual style can sustain the well-being of the planet, take care of people, and produce a profitable bottom line.
It may still be a secret to most, but it is no surprise that true Couture and Tailoring have honoured these concepts for a very long time. Wouldn’t you like to do something that you really love doing, know that you are doing your best to do the right thing, and earn a living doing it?
Let’s look at ‘Glamour’. Something that most of us can only aspire to, is really expense, and is totally impractical. Right?
The idea of supporting Fair trade practices, paying living wages, working and living conditions, global well being, “blah, blah, blah”- well is so – totally not about fashion. Right?
Wrong! We only don’t care about what we don’t know about, doesn’t affect us, or can’t change, but once we become aware of something it affects our consciousness and we can see and look at things from a different perspective, and affect change – even at our own seemingly insignificant level.
For most of us wearing clothes that actually last longer than a few months seems a bit weird because we can’t imagine anything that is really worth hanging on to – other than for sentimental reasons….
We haven’t always needed to be so conscious of saving our planet using Green materials and who makes things and how things are made. If you’ve grown up in the last 15 years ‘repurposing materials’ is a new idea, but it is an ancient idea. But, why would anyone spend so much money on clothing when you can pick up the latest and newest at the big box stores or at places like Top Shop really cheap? Why would anyone care to pay more?
What seems even more strange is that some people really love spending long hours creating something that totally engages their minds and hands, working on something that is not only beautiful, but also something that has more purpose and meaning behind it than what appears on the surface, and that has taken years to learn and master!
Come and see what we experience: a satisfying world, one of full of opportunity, beauty, fulfilment and sufficiency. Stay tuned for more…..
Eco Glam Fashion Event
Ecole Holt Couture - School of Couture Sewing & Design 