Liz Ricketts
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Liz joined the Of Rags team in January 2011 as their fashion consultant. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in fashion design, Liz marked the start of her career with a little bike trip. She joined the Environmental Justice Foundation in London on their Great Fashion Cycle from London to Paris. Her bike ride raised money to stop child labor and the use of harmful pesticides in the cotton industry. At 4 am, a month before her senior collection was due, this seemed like the perfect way to set a standard for her future in the fashion industry.

She was right! After over 300 miles of suffering for sustainable fashion, there is no turning back. Since moving to NYC in 2010, Liz has freelanced as a designer, stylist and consultant focusing on projects that empower the individual and amplify the energy of community. When Liz met Branson she saw that Of Rags was successfully turning the potential energy of two parallel worlds into one massive movement. Of Rags has since provided Liz with the platform she needed to define her perspective and tell her own story.

Blog Entries by Liz Ricketts

Educated Expectations Ask

Posted December 20, 2011 | 15:52:12 (EST)

Questions are the currency of students. That isn't new. What is new is the expectation students have that they can locate answers online in Google time. If the answers are assumed to just be "there" then what is the value of asking? Is there such a thing as an answer...

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"The Why" -- (sustainable) Fashion's Night Out

Posted September 20, 2011 | 23:32:18 (EST)

Over 500 people filled the Textile Arts Center's new Manhattan location for (sustainable) Fashion's Night Out... and they just wouldn't leave. What were they waiting for? The goody bags were long gone and we hadn't promised any celebrity entertainment that I was aware of. Guests even stood patiently...

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The Circle Connection -- Part 1: Re-Fashioning Childhood

Posted June 15, 2011 | 16:02:24 (EST)

What does "childhood" mean to a child? Yes, we admit it seems like a silly question at first, and several of our young participants alerted us to the redundancy (as politely as possible), but after we explained that children in Accra, Ghana would receive the answers in the form of...

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