Can fast fashion ever be sustainable? H & M would like you to think so. Their Garden Collection, arriving in stores in March, is made from organic materials and recycled waste, including PET bottles and textiles. The pieces are undeniably lovely, but they’re designed (and priced) to be scooped up in bulk, worn once or twice, and replaced come the next season.

(Pause.)

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Seriously, have you seen the stuff?

I’ll take one in every color, s’il vous plait.

(Bad environmentalist! Bad!)

Ok. Here’s the compromise. I get to wear that dress on the left but while doing so I must promise to only attend barbecue fiestas featuring super-local, super-sustainable pork, and I must get to and from said parties in zippy cars that use very little gas. Also, as a New Yorker, I will heroically forgo California wines for French, with have a smaller carbon footprint because they’re shipped on boats.

I can live with that.

{Images via Refinery 29.}