us.fashionnetwork.com/news: Dos Mujeres is a collaborative effort led by Tamara Rojo, the director of the San Francisco Ballet, who has been pivotal in championing women's stories and storytellers in dance. The program includes Arielle Smith's modern-day Cuban adaptation of Carmen, alongside Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's vibrant exploration of Frida Kahlo's life in Broken Wings.
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I was really excited to see this article here. I grew up dancing, and ballet was always one of my favorite styles of dance. I hope to declare myself into the costume design concentration and my dream job would probably be to design or create costumes for ballets. I also am pursuing an additional major in environmental and sustainability studies here at Carnegie Mellon because I am very passionate about climate justice. One thing that I really want to do is integrate sustainability into the design and production side of theatre and the entertainment industry. I am also very proud of my Latin heritage, so this article combined a lot of the important aspects of my life. I definitely want to learn more about Gabriela Hearst and her work in slow fashion. It is really impressive that one of her runway shows in 2020 was the first to be carbon neutral.
I really like reading articles about new sustainable practices and thinking about how they could apply to our school of drama community. I was surprised to read that wool was the most sustainable material to use for costumes, but I don’t really know what I expected. I was really surprised to read that one of Hearst’s shows was carbon-neutral (really, I was surprised that there has been a carbon-neutral show of any type ever). I always wonder how carbon-neutral is calculated – do they take into account carbon generated from electricity generation? Shipping emissions? Where materials are sourced from? What about carbon emissions from vendors? I don’t really know where the line is drawn, but carbon-neutral is an impressive feat nonetheless. Every discipline within theater or entertainment, at least here at CMU, can find a way to be less environmentally harmful. It would be difficult to adopt new practices, but I hope one day that we can.
As someone who grew up attending San Francisco Ballet productions, I was really excited to see this article pop up. I really was impressed by the designer’s background in making sustainable costumes and fashion, since with the ever-growing importance of improving sustainability in the fashion and costume industry, it’s pretty cool to read about people who are making efforts to assist with the development of sustainability. One thing that I was a particularly big fan of in this article is how Hearst is using pre-existing materials for this design. Merino wool is a pretty well established material in the world of fibers, and the fact that Hearst is emphasizing its sustainability shows that in the meantime of the development of super-fancy uber sustainable materials, there are still materials and systems already existing that can be used to make an effort toward sustainability while better material development is ongoing.
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