Global warming puts winter fashion out in the cold

Source: AFP

Global warming puts winter fashion out in the cold

by Madeleine Coorey

SYDNEY (AFP) - The heavy winter coat is not only out -- it may be a thing of the past in Australia as temperatures rise and summers lengthen due to global warming.

Australian Fashion Week, which kicked off Tuesday in Sydney, has ditched the traditional autumn/winter tag in favour of "trans-seasonal" runway shows full of clothes that can be worn year-round.

"We just don't have a need to do it any more," Fashion Week founder Simon Lock told AFP.

Lock said the move was partly the result of climate change, and partly due to the fact Australia has always enjoyed warmer weather than the traditional northern hemisphere fashion capitals of Milan, Paris and New York.

But he said as global temperatures rise, fashion houses and department stores around the world would face heavy winter clothing sitting ignored on racks as summer weather stretches well into autumn.

"Clothes just sit there, no one is buying them," Lock said. "These are things that dramatically affect business."

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you'd think apparel companies & employees would be donating to Democratic candidates because of global warming... sadly, most of the stuff is made in communist or Asian countries anyhow, so I guess they probably don't understand the warming problem as much as they should. Any idea by anyone how well Asia sees the global warming problem?

Temperatures go all over the place. It was 85F a few days ago here in Minneapolis. Tonight, it's heading to 36F. It's ridiculous... nobody has any idea what to wear unless they look up the forecast online.

like a place in China, right now, that is in big trouble because of heavy snow.

fashion will have to move winter products in new places

Not practical here though. Hot almost nine months out of the year...and getting warmer all the time.