In Honor of Earth Day, The New York Times Looks at Sustainable FashionIn Honor of Earth Day, The New York Times Looks at Sustainable Fashion

In honor of Earth Day, New York Times fashion director and chief critic Vanessa Friedman trained her eye on the fashion industry's current taste for sustainable design and manufacturing. Sustainability is undoubtedly a hot topic in the fashion world today - see also Kering's recent commitment to environmentally ethical production, and sustainability as one of the pillars of focus for the upcoming FTF: Conference.

Friedman calls the current climate, if you'll excuse the pun, "Sustainability 2.0."

"It comes after stage one — acknowledging there is a problem and marketing the realization — and reflects brands’ attempts to assess their own environmental impact, including water use, electricity, fiber production and so on," she writes.