Fabulista Concerned: About the ION.

Fabulista is about fashion and all for fashion. This is why one has been terribly excited with the reveal that the fashION IcON had been dripping to the public as it draws closer to its opening date.

Can you love fashion and be alive without waiting excitedly beyond bated breath for the ION’s opening? One thinks not. However, being a socially (if not globally) conscious Fabulista about town, one cannot but notice the yet-to-be-completed concrete and steel entity consuming more than its fair share of energy resources. Every evening, the site is a dazzling display of flashing lights bulbs, glowing LED walls and even a larger-than-life motion-picture screen. If this is how it is while it is still under construction, it paralyses even oneself at the thought of how the building might be, energy-consuming wise, when it goes full-up on the peacock dance.

What one likes to ask is whatever happened to the adage ‘fashion with a conscience’? In addition to the nightly flash dance, let’s not forget the full glass bubble that is the shopping mall. Can you imagine the energy needed to effectively cool what is essentially a giant greenhouse? The compressors will be working non-stop!

This could be potential public-relations nightmare once the (money-wielding) crowd realizes the possible horrors. Is it possible in this day and age of transparent-everything to ask the management for a reveal or report of their energy consumption? After all, unless the building comes with its own solar-energy power station, what started as a potential fashION IcON could quickly spiral into a IrONy pION.