Archive for September, 2011
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Ready to Wear or Ready to Knit — Your Choice
Wool and the Gang is a new retailer that borders somewhere between an ethical knitwear boutique and knitting store. This slow fashion retailer designs small collections of ‘basic’ knitwear made with “top-quality wool, produced deep in the heart of the Peru’s Andean… View Work:
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How to Spot Quality Details
Choosing quality garments is sort of the mantra of the Slow Fashion Movement. But there are no labels to tell us what is highest quality, no lists of highest-quality manufactures, no information on the tag about how long a garment will last; and while higher-end brands tend to have higher quality,… View Work:
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And I Quote…
The way to make sustainable fashion last is to change fashion and infuse it with sustainability values and priorities. If sustainable fashion becomes assimilated into the mainstream which is otherwise unaffected, then it will have achieved little. Kate Fletcher… View Work:
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The Handmade Revolution
Craft is not dead. In fact, handmade fashion, decor, art and much more have been making a huge comeback! In spite of the rise of the mall, the rapid speed of fast fashion, and big box stores supposedly ‘killing craft’ you can now find just about anything: sewed, knitted, felted, crocheted,… View Work:
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Force Slow-Down
Early this morning I had a common accident… while you were sleeping I was working and suffered a massive computer failure from spilling tea on it. While I recount the details in my head weighing the stupidity of drinking tea near a computer to alleviate a cough, and then the expected yet… View Work:
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The Portland Collection — Classic Pendleton Indie Style
Think classic Pendleton fabrics & intricate designs then pair them with fresh & young silhouettes and you have yourself The Portland Collection. Pendleton Woolen Mills, based in Oregon, has merged with three independent designers, Nathaniel Crissman, Rachel Turk and John Blasioli, to… View Work:
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And I Quote…
I am not a classic “eco warrior” and should confess that I’m even a little tired of words such as “eco,” “green” and “ethical.” It’s more that I dream of a world where everything is ecological, green and ethical so that actually we don’t have to define them anymore. I do believe that it is our… View Work:
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Fall Giveaway
September is quite a month of fashion. The weather turns cooler, consumers feverishly finish their back-to-school shopping and designers, press & fashionistas of all kinds excitedly await Spring RTW collections to walk down the runway. Another great fashion milestone this month was the… View Work:
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Yield: Making Fashion Without Making Waste
Yield is a fascinating fashion exhibit that just opened at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY. Traveling from New Zealand it features the impressive work of international designers exploring the creative & sustainable opportunities that zero waste design can produce. Approximately… View Work:
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