Stacy H.
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Anthropologist/Social Development Specialist |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Coming from a developing country, it was not so much in our repertoire to speak about sustainable and ethical fashion or living. We just lived! Most of us naturally adopted a sustainable lifestyle, where reappropriating material objects was part of the magic of childhood. Fresh milk was delivered by "Uncle" who milked his cows not too far from our house, and our chickens came from a family friend's farm outside of the country's capital. However, living abroad has made me less aware of where things come from and how much waste is involved until I rekindled my friendship with Emma H. who told me all about her perspective on fairtrade, and ethical fashion. This conversation triggered an interest in understanding ethical fashion from an international development standpoint, marrying my love for fashion with that for sustainable development and human rights issues. |
| Interests | Anthropological discourse, natural hair remedies, great food, Fashion nuances, art history, fashion4development, travel. |
| Favorite Movies | Les Huit Femmes, Hideous Kinky, Cidade de Deus, Oldboy, Broken Embraces, An Education, Precious, In Bruges, Gran Torino, The Help, The September Issue, Submarine, Melancholia, The Skin I live in |
| Favorite Music | Lupe Fiasco, Oh Land, Damian Marley, Stephen Marley, Lykke Li, Gilberto Gil, Vanessa da Mata, Asa, Emmanuele Jal, Demarco, Esthero, Erykah Badu, Popcaan, Kimbra, Skunk Anansie, The Do, Curtis Mayfield, Nas, Fefe, Nomadic Massive, Seu Jorge, Vybz, The Noisettes, Gil Scott-Heron, Metric |
| Favorite Books | Down and Out in Paris and London, and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Unbearable lightness of Being by Kundera, The Trial by Kafka, Marxism & Art, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos by Jorge Amado, Childhood by Maxim Gorky, Primitive Art by Boas, Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis de Berniere, Culture to Couture: How World Cultures Influence Fashion, Vogue Italia, British Vogue, Vogue Paris and Vogue China (I have been collecting Vogues for about seven years). |