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There’s organic, upcycled, recycled, vintage, and many other ways you can find an outlet to be a more conscious shopper. But Bib + Tuck, a members-only online community for women, is upping the fashionable ante to trading as the new green. As in, swapping with some of the hottest women in the country including designers like Mara Hoffman to Manhattan fashion editors who get too many clothing and accessory freebies and not enough time to wear them.
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Do you know how that dress, sustainable or not, got to you and the many people it took to create it? Durated wants you to. With total transparency from cradle to grave, the founders of Durated hope to engage consumers and producers into knowing more about the production, logistics and social lives of the things, they buy and sell, everyday. Working with several different brands and partners, from small Brooklyn and Berlin based producers to well-known international fashion labels, Durated will provide producers with the tools and infrastructure necessary to track the production process.
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The days of new e-commerce fashion start-ups launching without a conscience might be a thing of the past. Consider Everlane, Durated or new sustainably minded retail start-up Zady launching August 27th. Curated, edited down and ready to tell their story through attractive images and well-made products, Zady hopes to make a typical shopping experience less about buying something new and more about what’s authentic.
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“Growing up I was told this very simple story about where our clothes come from,” Andrew Morgan, director of a new documentary, The True Cost, tells viewers in the opening scenes of his film trailer. “I was told they were made in faraway places by these ‘other people’ and these people needed the work.” Despite never seeing these people, Morgan, like many consumers worldwide, believed he was supporting the “other people” with positive purchasing power. As news of human-rights abuses in Bangladesh hurtled into the public consciousness, however, and the body count began to mount, Morgan discovered an uglier truth that begged to be exposed.
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Ekocycle, the eco-conscious brainchild brand of musical artist Will.i.am and Coca Cola, has announced a new line of fashion-forward men’s suits designed by New Zealand-based H Brothers. Will.i.am approached the 140-year-old clothing company to do a collaboration with Ekocycle after he become a fan of their garments and saw a chance to fill a gap in the market for eco-friendly suits. We recently had a chance to check out the new line of jackets, pants and accessories, which are made out of rPET (a fabric made using recycled plastic bottles). Read on to see what we thought!
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What does an environmental entomologist, a twenty-something entrepreneur and a political analyst have to do with the sustainable fashion movement? A lot more than you’d think. We were front and center at the “Future of Fashion” panel at this year’s SXSW Eco conference in Austin, Texas. Eco-modelpreneur Summer Rayne Oakes, Modavanti founder David Dietz, Teens Turning Green founder Erin Schrode, and supermodel Amber Valletta took to the mic to discuss one of the world’s most polluting industries: fashion.
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Post garment factory disasters, supply chain checks, fashion manufacturing smack-downs and more of the mainstream public asking where their clothes are coming from are creating interesting, new marketplace models. Manufacturing in other countries with under-represented people has long been the name of the fashion game and, one wouldn’t argue, is the reason we’re in an ethical fashion conundrum.
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It is now six months since the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, where over 1100 people died, and the garment industry is still scrabbling to pick up the pieces. More than 100 companies have now signed up to an agreement on monitoring factory fire and building safety in Bangladesh, and international efforts are being made to sort out compensation for the workers. But will this mean that all is well with global trade again? Can we all go back to buying cheap clothes without guilt by telling ourselves that low-pay jobs are good for their economy and fast fashion good for ours?
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