Anya Hindmarch's Carrier Bag
by Bonnie Alter, London on 02.20.07
When it comes to high fashionista handbags, Anya Hindmarch is big, really big. She made her name with another charity bag--- the Be A Bag. For that one, she screened photos donated by celebrities onto a satin bag and sold them. Now you can do the same with pictures of your own little darlings screened onto a nappy bag or purse. For this new charity project she has come up with a roomy and re-usable canvas shopping bag; available for sale in limited editions initially (sorry girls, all sold out already) and then available at Sainsbury's supermarket in a month. Last season Sainsbury's came out with a series of artists' carrier bags; so it is hard to know which one to take shopping.... The bag is a collaboration with "We Are What We Do", as part of their Decline Plastic campaign. The idea, says Ms. Hindmarch, is to use haute couture's lofty platform to help change the polluting habits of the man, or woman, on the street. Quoth she: "You can make it cool to do the right thing." That's the fashionable way. :: Evening Standard
How is it cool ot make us use more cotton, and not even organic cotton? This bag lady is just not with it. Use hemp or just or ramie or something which does not kill farmers and poison the land.
I disagree with that it should be organic cotton or something like that, that would make the bag more expensive, therefore not as many people would buy it, and the point of the bag is to raise awareness of recycling and how important it is in modern culture. This bag makes a huge effect on the look of being green, now because of this bag it's fashionable, persuading people to do things like recycle. Seeing celebrities like Ciara Knightly wearing an item based on caring for the environment will get people to care about the environment too. Finally, the industrial world is turning in on itself.
BTW, it's Keira, not Ciara.
But the real point is that her cute cotton bag was made with blood, the blood of farmers in India and other countries who die each year by the thousands, go blind, or suffer cancer from all these chemicals they spray on the crops to produce the cotton to make Western celebrities look cool.
But of course you may not care...we have the option of ridiculing this information here and carrying on the trade in cotton and petrol.
Hemp and other plants are better for the environment, and do not drink up all the water as does cotton, even organic cotton.
I think you're all slightly missing the point here. The world is never going to be perfect, and the fact that by this bag coming into fashion people will start using this and other fabric bags rather than non bio-degradable plastic bags is a step in the right direction. We should be congratulating the people playing an active part in trying to get rid of bad habits, not finding unfair fault in them.
I think you're all slightly missing the point here. The world is never going to be perfect, and the fact that by this bag coming into fashion people will start using this and other fabric bags rather than non bio-degradable plastic bags is a step in the right direction. We should be congratulating the people playing an active part in trying to get rid of bad habits, not finding unfair fault in them.
Baby steps, people, baby steps.
I don't understand, The bag was released today and Sailsburys only had 30 in stock, so fashion addicts from miles away were making a potentially pointless jorney in their cars, when it wasn't guaranteed they'd get a bag anyway. Think about the carbon emmisions!!! BTW I totally agree on the cotton thing. And it's not even organic!!!
how about the fact that the bags were made in china and shipped to the UK. that's the equivalent of a few local car rides i would imagine.
I'm sure there are much bigger environmental issues in the world than a shipping from China to the UK, or car journeys to sainsburys, people and businesses do these thigns all the time. A fashion in canvas bags might stimulate a decrease in the usage of plastic bags, which would be a greta acheivement, if they only printed ENOUGH of the things....!
The Anya bag is a fraud. The bag in NY this week was a hemp bag some woman was wearing, it said "Real Eco Bags are Made from Hemp".
My mum decided to make her own shopping bags using old material from curtains, cushion covers... whatever you can find.... then you're recyling old fabrics and enabling yourself to stop using plastic bags.