Tag: Recycled Fashion - Page 9
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London Fashion Week's Estethica Features Beautiful Fabrics Recycled in Bags and Clothes
Estethica is the showcase at London Fashion Week for green and eco designers. Now in its third year, it promotes the eco fashion design industry as an important and integral part of fashion.
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Recycled Truck Tarp Hats Used in Zombieland Movie
Want to fight zombies and look like a badass at the same time? Well, now you can with the hat worn in the Zombieland movie. It's made from repurposed materials so you can protect the planet from zombies and excess waste at the same time. So what do
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Lara Miller Spring 2010 Collection at New York Green Fashion Week (Slideshow)
Green fashion designer Lara Miller first turned heads when she introduced the Wear It Your Way collection -- made up of transformer pieces that twirled and twisted into dozens of different shapes, allowing the wearer to create
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Green Fashion: New York Fashion Week Spring 2010 Nolcha Ethical Fashion Preview (Slideshow)
Green Fashion has come a long way in the five years since TreeHugger has launched, when it was tough just to find an organic cotton T-shirt. As a testament to that fact, at yesterday's Nolcha Ethical Fashion
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Readers, Send Us Photos of Your Best Refashioned Clothing Projects!
When the weather cools in New York, I can only think of one thing - New York Fashion Week. In the spirit of Fall fashion, we want to see photos of your refashioned clothing
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7 Must-Read Green Fashion Blogs
The Web is full of resources for eco-minded fashionistas, whether you like to focus on the latest trends (produced from sustainable materials), do-it-yourself pieces that help you stand out from the crowd, or creative ways to wear vintage. We narrowed
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Green Fashion: 7 Australian Sustainable Designers You Need to Know
You may know Lagerfeld from Armani and Balenciaga from Burberry, but if your fashion knowledge doesn't extend to the land Down Under, then you're missing out. Australia is home to a thriving fashion industry where designers
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American Apparel Bag-O-Scraps: Green, Gimmick or Both?
American Apparel, peddler of made-in-the-USA t-shirts and semi-pornographic ads, has introduced an innovative new product: the Bag-O-Scraps. It reminds me of Dan Aykroyd's Saturday Night Live skit where he sells a Bag O'Glass as a child's toy. Like
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Red Hot + Stylish - Worn Again Teams Up With Virgin + Eurostar
They've gone and done it again! Funky designs, great collaborations and innovative materials, those clever folks at Worn Again always know how to pull it out of the bag...so to speak! For their latest collection Bon Voyage Worn
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NV Calcutta Handbags Tick All the Boxes
We like to do our bit for ethical fashion and here's a handbag that makes it a fashion-breeze. These NV Calcutta handbags tick all the boxes. They are good looking, hand-made, help poor people in Calcutta get a foothold and
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Freitag Makes Arty Bags
We saw them at the Tate Modern Museum and you can see them if you are at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, or the MoCA in Los Angeles at the right time. It's the latest Freitag bag, sort of a status
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Preloved Housewares for a Stylish Green Abode
Image from Preloved Preloved has been creating fashionable one-of-a-kind pieces of clothing from second hand and vintage fabrics for years. As in since 1995--they are Canadian eco-royalty when it comes to sustainable design. Starting in Toronto,
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Sophisticated yet Funky Looks with Recovered Vintage Garments by Ana Walsh
One of our favorite green clothing designers in Buenos Aires, Ana Walsh, has come up with a new collection for her 'Fashion Archeology' line and now makes beautiful items for children too.
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Wearable Plastic Bottle T-Shirts Say a Lot
Turn all those Crystal Geyser, Evian, and Fiji plastic water bottles into t-shirts, slap on a sustainability slogan and you get A Lot to Say t-shirts, with mottos like:
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Billabong B9 ("Benign") Wetsuits Made From Used Fishing Nets
Recycled plastic soda bottles are now showing up in everything from toothbrushes to park benches to jackets and now they are even being molded into the 2009 Platinum B9 (b9 = pronounced "benign") wetsuit by Billabong. Plus the
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Redemption Thong by Reef Made from Nontoxic Materials, Gets Close to Zero Waste
If your company is in charge of making new products every season, and sometimes even between seasons, what do you, as a responsible company, do when you realize that every day the average American
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Maker Faire 09: SCRAP Puts Junk Back Into Craftster Consumer Stream
Wandering through the textiles section of Maker Faire 09, I saw a booth with bins of junk and a sign that said "Scrap." Turns out they weren't talking about the junk in the bins, but rather an operation that takes the trash
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Paraglider Fabrics Recycled into Cool Bags and Accessories
Even when our repurposed materials accessories archive is vast, there's always a new material to recycle into design.
