Name: Siena Cui
Faculty/Year: Management U3 Committee Position: Clothing Coordinator What is your experience with the HIV/AIDS community? What about this cause touches you and makes you want to create change? My experience with HIV/AIDS community actually started through P[h]assion. I’ve been with P[h]assion for 2 years now, and I remember ACCM came in for a workshop regarding HIV /AIDS and it was really helpful. I felt that there are still a lot of misunderstanding and stereotypes from people towards this community. Engaging with organizations such as P[h]assion definitely helps ourselves and others to close these gaps. Do you believe fashion has the power to affect positive change? Where do you believe fashion succeeds or fails to create real, tangible social action? Fashion definitely have the power to affect positive change, but it’s also true that it’s a double-edged sword. It’s a big industry, meaning that it has the power to initiate large enough movements and influence, examples such as diversity in the models (size or race wise) and emerging new fashion capitals and designs all reflect that. However, at the same time, this industry also largely depends on consumption. Runway collections aiming for social impact can make a change, but probably not as perfect as they aimed for. Do all people who wear the Dior feminist shirts fully understand feminism? Or are they just buying it because it looks “cool” and “trendy”? How have social initiates made an impact on your life, or someone close to you? It may be through the HIV/AIDS community or another social/personal issue. It’s a really really small thing but I took a course in Fashion Buying and learned that the fashion industry is actually the second largest polluter in the world. I’ve seen videos of how fast fashion productions can in fact take other people’s lives away and harm the environment at the same time. Knowing this actually helped me to rethink what my wardrobe are consist of; how much clothes are just sitting there forever without being worn and what alternative brands/ways I should shop in the future.
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8/1/2022 02:39:27 am
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