{"id":10374,"date":"2016-05-05T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/?p=10374"},"modified":"2017-03-17T13:09:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T13:09:02","slug":"emma-watson-changing-the-world-one-dress-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/emma-watson-changing-the-world-one-dress-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Watson: Changing the world one dress at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fashion industry is on a relentless pursuit to answer the question: What does luxury mean today? When I joined the actress and activist Emma Watson on a fitting for the custom-made Calvin Klein dress she wore to the Met gala in New York, she had a suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Luxury to me means peace of mind,&#8221; she said. Specifically, knowing that what she is wearing has been ethically sourced and produced.<\/p>\n<p>For the past few years, Watson has resolved that all of her red carpet appearances incorporate sustainable fashion.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the Met gala, this meant the majority of the fabric used was made from Newlife, a yarn made from 100 percent post-consumer plastic bottles; and the detailing on the bustier was made with organic silk and cotton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fashion industry is on a relentless pursuit to answer the question: What does luxury mean today? When I joined the actress and activist Emma Watson on a fitting for the custom-made Calvin Klein dress she wore to the Met gala in New York, she had a suggestion. &#8220;Luxury to me means peace of mind,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[397,262],"tags":[218],"class_list":{"0":"post-10374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-speaker-spotlight","9":"tag-emma-watson"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Emma-Watson-344x450-e1490206073595.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10711,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions\/10711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}