Tag: Recycled Fashion - Page 11
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Buenos Aires Fashion Week Winter 2009 II: Recycled Tights in Clothing, a Green Design Exhibit
Yesterday we gave you the first part of our coverage of the Buenos Aires Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2009. In this second and final delivery, find Cosecha Vintage, a new brand that incorporates recycled tights into clothing; and
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Event: Recycled Swimwear Designer Aaron Chang Opens Green Art Gallery
Image via: Aaron Chang Gallery Aaron Chang, popular recycled fashion swimwear designer and professional photographer, not to mention surfing legend, is opening a green art gallery in San Diego, February 28, 2009. Each of the pieces are printed with
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New York Fashion Week: Pair New Styles with Sustainable Shoes
The fashion industry as a whole may not have taken sustainability as far as we'd like, but at least shoe company Terra Plana makes it easier to keep your footwear green. CEO Galahad Clark—a seventh-generation shoemaker who
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Ecosteal.com Turns Shopping Into a Game
For some people, shopping is so much more than exchanging money for goods. Oh no, it's about the thrill of the chase, and the high that you get from getting a really great deal. Like finding a pair of brand new Edun jeans at a
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New York Fashion Week: Designers Get Thrifty
As we prepare our eco-fashion coverage for New York Fashion Week and peek at some of the trend forecasts, one thing is clear: the recession is making its mark on fashion week’s big-name
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Update: Sweet Skins Opens Brick & Mortar Store on Valentines Day
We've covered Sweet Skins before, but on Valentines Day Mira Fannin will take the store from the net to the streets. What began as a small eco-store run out of Fannin's kitchen, and a small booth at the Saturday Market in Eugene,
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Handmade, Recycled Shopping Bag Wallets
In the world of recycled fashion, there's the recycled candy-wrapper purses, the duct tape wallets, the seatbelt bags, and now there are shopping bag wallets made from those plastic grocery bags that everyone is banning lately.
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Book Launch: Summer Rayne Oakes Goes on Tour with Style, Naturally
TreeHugger regular, Planet Green contributor, business woman, activist and model - Summer Rayne Oakes is one busy lady. So it is an amazing feat of productivity that while promoting ethical fashion on all these fronts, she has also found time to author
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War-Time Advice is Still Relevant
The Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising is a little museum that displays packaging of brands over the last hundred years. It's interesting because packaging in the old days was very simple and straight forward, with none of
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H&M; Clothing to Boost Organic Cotton Use by 50 Percent in 2009
If you're a fan of H&M;'s organic cotton clothing, get ready for more!
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Little Girl's Recycled Dresses Up for Auction
What to do with a grandmother who keeps making beautiful dresses out of recycled and surplus fabrics for her newly-born granddaughter. Artist Kumiko Ishida made one, and then she made another and then she kept on sewing....
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High-End, Completely Sustainable Jewelry. Made from Roadkill.
Let the ethical debates begin. Most of us agree that killing sometimes-endangered animals strictly to use their parts for fashion accessories or high end garments is deplorable. But what if the animal is already dead?
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The Owl 100% Recycled Laptop Backpack
Some very cool laptop backpacks are out on the market with more arriving every day, and luckily, there are an increasing number that are made from recycled materials - many of which you can make yourself. This particular
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Recycled Polartec Fleece Hats by The Mouse Works
Image source: The Mouse Works Cinderella's little furry worker friends have nothing on these guys. The Mouse Works owner Ryan Williamson hand-makes all of the hats from recycled Polartec fleece from area clothing factories, making hats for people and
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The Ultimate Obama Memorabilia? Recycled 2008 Ballot Necklaces
So you were the first one of your friends to get an Obama button, and you wore it proudly. But then your friend put up a yard sign. Naturally, you bought yourself a t-shirt, not to be outdone. Then your friend got an Obama tote
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Couture Recycle Runway Collection by Nancy Judd (Slideshow)
Michelle Obama could wear one of these green gowns to the Inaugural Ball or she can really make a statement wearing one of Nancy Judd’s dresses from the Recycle Runway Collection.
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Miss America Contestant Uses Stage to Promote Green Garb
The Miss America contest seems like a pitiful waste of time considering the larger issues we're struggling to tackle. But the fact is, a lot of people still tune in to watch hot women walk the stage in bikinis. And
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8 Weird (and Somehow Cool) Things from Reclaimed Puma Trainers
Seems like Chilean designers are really embracing the reuse culture and taking it to whole new levels. After discovering some really cool boots from plastic bags and a set of clothes with (yes) cigarette butts reuse from Chilean creators, now we
