Parker herself worked in the costume department for Cirque du Soleil for five years and then as a costume designer for theater and films, so she has those connections. To promote the productive recycling of clothes, ricRACK has opened a thrift store in Central City that sells donated clothes as well as those that have been used in films and TV shows, and sponsors a variety of sewing classes.Ĭonnections in the film and theater industry supply ricRACK with used costumes. And when this happens, the dyes and chemicals from the fabrics leach into the ground water and release greenhouse gasses. What’s more, 85% of all textiles go to the dump each year. “I knew I could no longer sit on the sidelines and do nothing,” Parker said.Įventually, it lead her to found ricRACK, a nonprofit organization its website describes as “combining creative skill building with environmental responsibility.”Įverything that ricRACK does, Parker said, in some way combats the waste prevalent in the fashion industry, which is estimated be the second-largest consumer of the world’s water supply and pollutes the oceans with micro plastics. Listening to the radio while driving nine years ago, Alison Parker heard a segment about the book “Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion” by Elizabeth Cline, and it opened her eyes to the problem of waste and pollution in the fashion and clothing business. Costumes are among the items for sale at the ricRACK thrift store on Martin Luther King Jr.
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