Emma Watson Wedding Dresses

[YearsSinceISawYou]

All those at the Earth shot Awards were asked to wear outfits that considered the environment-I suppose this means second hand or worn before. At any rate, that's what they did.

Along comes Emma Watson with her Harris Reed designed dress, made from 10 upcycled wedding dresses from Oxfam.

AIBU to think that if Emma really cared about this sort of stuff-as she often says she does-she would have left the 10 wedding dresses in Oxfam, so that 10 people would have been able to recycle 10 dresses-with the added bonus that they would have been affordable for those people.

Instead, she takes all ten of them and chops them up, thus showing herself to be an over-privileged hypocrite, who cares more about making a headline than 'saving the planet' or thinking about the women who could have made real use of those dresses.

Surely she had something else in her wardrobe that she could have used.

@Reallyimeanreally2022

Is AIBU only for discussing "heinous things"? I didn't realise. I don't think many others do either.

@AlwaysLatte

Well I just googled it and after all that trouble of putting 10 dresses together she put it on upside down and back to front!

She certainly would have been the talk of the event if she had put it on the other way around.

@YearsSinceISawYou

What a load of cock it is, all these celebrities spouting Save the Earth, while quite happily doing lots of things that go against that.

@TidyDancer. I agree, it's not the only objectionable thing she has done.

Gemma Collins - I'm looking at you!

Oh everything I buy from now on must be sustainable (clothes) and I'm all about saving the planet!

Get the fuck out, spending £1,450 on gold leaf covered steak which certainly isn't sustainable, and her blonde hair extensions etc won't be either nor will her new car be!

A bit of course but I just googled the dress to have a look. It's a pretty hideous and unflattering design...I can't see how 10 dresses went into it!

YANBU. I like the idea but there's something a bit off about it somehow.

When the designer has access to all sorts of fabrics and materials - including offcuts etc of their own, taking ten wedding dresses from a charity shop, whilst inventive, may deprive someone else of an affordable wedding dress.

Even if the Oxfam frocks weren't great shakes to begin with, if someone is looking in Oxfam because they couldn't afford an asos own at asos prices- I'm uncomfortable with ten dresses being turned into one dress which would now command ££££ as both a fashion piece and a "famous dress"- designed and worn by people who could no doubt access and afford other fabrics- and pour their concern into the provenance of them.

To me it's less sustainable than either renting (Emma) or someone buying and then returning one of those dresses to Oxfam or another charity or reselling it themselves.

There's just something about it that feels very smug and hollow- and I'm not just talking about her simper smile.

Apparently she bought the dress from the designer and this is what he does. She didn't buy and chop up 10 wedding dresses.

Article in Vogue -

Reed’s entire ‘Found’ collection is based around reusing wedding dresses sourced from Oxfam, a charity that fights against poverty. The same is true for the white dress that Watson wore, over flared black trousers that are a signature of Reed’s brand.

www.vogue.in/vogue-closet/collection/emma-watson-champions-sustainability-in-a-custom-harris-reed-upcycled-wedding-dress-worn-over-flared-black-pants/

Why did this take 10 wedding dresses? It looks like 2 or possibly 3 to me. 1 for the lace, 1 or 2 for the tulle.

@PissyMum

Yanbu Emma Watson is among the worst virtue signallers out there. I don’t generally have much opinion on celebrities but the way she turned on JK Rowling, the woman without whom she would have no career, was despicable.

Yes. YANBU

I am SO sick of this misconception about charity shops.

They don't exist to provide clothing for the poor. They exist to provide money for the charity.

If you are living on very little money, and you need pyjamas or work trousers, it is cheaper and easier to go to Primark or to the clothes section of your nearby large supermarket, where you will find new, clean, and fashionable clothes in your size.

Charity shops are where you go if you have a special interest in vintage or sustainable clothes, or you enjoy the serendipity of finding a perfect silk whatever in exactly your size that you didn't know you needed, or if you want something for fancy dress. If you specifically need a white shirt for your new catering job, you don't go to the local Oxfam.

My dearest friend is a regional manager (or something like that, not sure of the exact title) for all of the charity shops in our geographical area for a certain well-known charity and she doesn't give a flying rat's banana if you're buying her stock to wear or to sell on ebay or to tear apart and make into curtains for your dog's house. If she waited for "the poor" to come along and only buy what they needed she'd never sell anything.

[quote YearsSinceISawYou]@Reallyimeanreally2022

Is AIBU only for discussing "heinous things"? I didn't realise. I don't think many others do either.[/quote]
Did i say that?!

I said that so many things to get worked up about and YOU choose this.

YABVU.

Yanbu.

So much vitriol over nothing. Let's tear down young successful women for being interested in fashion and wearing clothes they enjoy which at least have a nod to sustainability.

EW is the absolute image of my eldest DD and always has been (she's 3 years older than DD) so since first HP came out i always just look at EW and go aaah bless her ....

no help sorry

recycled or not, it's ugly! says nothing about saving the planet and nothing about sustainability.
"fashion" is a huge gimmick and insulting to common sense.

cannot believe i actually googled but according to Harpers Bazaar the designer made it "in collaboration" with Oxfam, and as per PP's quote from Vogue this is something he's done before so it's hardly as though she went to her local Oxfam and stole ten dresses from deserving-poor brides-to-be... you are being ridiculous rather than unreasonable if you think that a designer making new gowns from old is a bad thing!

and there's no way that dress was made from ten others - the only thing wrong with it is that it's not actually a dress, does nothing for her and is a totally inappropriate style for an event in October. I felt cold looking at her

My only objection to the dress is that it’s dire. Even Pretty in Pink did better than that.

@Reallyimeanreally2022

Yes, you did.

To quote you: "so many heinous things to get worked about and you choose this"

As a volunteer in a charity shop, I hugely applaud what Emma wore at the Earthshot event.

Fast fashion - and the fashion industry in general - is one of the most polluting out there. 10,000 litres of water to produce one kilo of cotton. Chemicals to dye, colour, process. Sweatshop factories, clothes shipped across the planet to be worn once and chucked into landfill.

Emma wearing a "second hand" dress, albeit one which has been put together by a designer, goes a long way in making second hand the best choice. If a few of the "ewww, second hand" brigade see her in her outfit and decide to buy even one dress or coat second hand, then job done.

YANBU. I have a pretty low opinion of her already after she threw JK Rowling under the bus for stating that biological sex is real.

[quote YearsSinceISawYou]@Reallyimeanreally2022

Yes, you did.

To quote you: "so many heinous things to get worked about and you choose this"[/quote]
So nothing about starting a thread

It’s the fact that you seem so worked about this
When so much serious shit to get worked to about

Jeez everything at Oxfam is so expensive. The ten brides would be better off shopping at a different charity shop

No I don't think the dress was in the spirit of the occasion. The whole point of buying second hand or thrifting your own wardrobe is to get repeated wear out of an item, either yourself or passed on to someone else. Why did it take 10 dresses to make this outfit? How much of those 10 dresses have now gone in the bin? Will this new dress ever be worn again. Probably not. If they had taken 10 unfashionable wedding dresses and made, say, 5 wearable and affordable ones, then that would have been something.

Can't stand EW. Rubbish actor, and there's not a bandwagon she isn't unthinkingly clambering on to.

Why didn't you just call this thread 'I don't like Emma Watson because she's a trans ally so I'm going to slag off her dress' and be done with it? This website is a fucking joke nowadays...

I think what she has done is great, she’s shown her followers that it’s not shameful to shop in a charity shop. Hopefully this will bring more young people into them and more money will go to charity.