Extravagant haute couture made of ecological materials. Ordinary everyday clothing made in factories abroad, where the workers are treated well and paid a reasonable wage. Designer-dresses crocheted using the entrails of old cassette tapes. And good old jeans with a little eco-friendly mark on one leg. Sustainable clothing is one of the strongest trends in the field of fashion. Bono from U2, Stella McCartney, Helena Christensen and many other celebrities are part of the environmentally-friendly clothing bandwagon. Soon there will be clothing made from sustainable materials available everywhere – and at an affordable price. 

In 2009 the UN's major climate-change conference will be held in Copenhagen, and the main exhibition to be held by Museet på Koldinghus in the summer of 2009 will therefore also be connected with the theme of climate change. The exhibition will not provide answers to the world's huge environmental questions. But it will raise issues for debate around the concept of sustainability and provide inspiration as to how as consumers we can influence the process through our ordinary choice of purchases in clothes shops. It's a matter of thinking things through.

The exhibition will be shown on the occasion of the Crafts and Design Biennale 2009.

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