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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Alyx Gorman

Australian Fashion Laureate awards 2023: Kit X’s Kit Willow warns against ‘crazy’ overconsumption

Kit Willow gestures while speaking last year
Kit X founder Kit Willow, pictured last year, won the sustainable designer award at the 2023 Australian Fashion Laureate in Sydney on Thursday. Photograph: Mackenzie Sweetnam/Getty Images

Kit Willow of luxury brand Kit X cautioned against Australian fashion’s “crazy linear model of overconsumption” after receiving the sustainable designer award at the 2023 Australian Fashion Laureate.

“We’re consuming and we’re discarding, yet the price of raw materials are going up and the demand on virgin resources is far outweighing the supply, the Earth’s supply,” Willow said.

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