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Sustainable Fashion

Earth Day 2013: Hug A Tree Wearing These!

The Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 04.22.2013 | Black Voices

Hooray, it's Earth Day! Which means it's the perfect time to raise the roof in celebration of another day on God's green earth, and give Mother Nature...

WATCH: Do Michelle Obama's Fashion Picks Set A Poor Example?

The Huffington Post | Lindsay Wilkes-Edrington | Posted 02.22.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

First Lady Michelle Obama has been praised for embracing mainstream, affordable fashion lines. But do those choices come at a cost? Elizabeth Cline...

Behind the Label: The Ideologies Behind The Lululemon Manifesto

Jessica Marati | Posted 11.28.2012 | Style
Jessica Marati

If I'm going to spend $68 on a sports bra, my money is better spent with a company that authentically embodies the values it promotes.

Greetings From the Green Carpet Challenge

Livia Firth | Posted 11.26.2012 | Style
Livia Firth

Greetings from New York where I was given a huge opportunity: to present the Green Carpet Challenge to a first ladies luncheon followed by a state dinner with UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon.

The Laura Siegel Fall Collection: Ethical Fashion at Its Best

Maria Russo | Posted 10.11.2012 | Style
Maria Russo

For Laura Siegel, design is a story about the unrestrained, rugged beauty of nature and the indigenous people who inspire and help mold her effortless collections.

Fashion Industry Considers Biodiversity When Sourcing Materials

Summer Rayne Oakes | Posted 10.11.2012 | Style
Summer Rayne Oakes

Though it is a term that is arguably clunkier than "sustainability" -- biodiversity is slowly becoming a topic of interest within the sphere of sourcing and design.

Intermix Ignores Pleas for Compassion From Over 32,000 Consumers

Josh Tetrick | Posted 10.11.2012 | Style
Josh Tetrick

Intermix knows it is placing greed and profits above ethics, compassion, and human decency. Will it keep its head down, blinders on, and continue killing up to 100 animals for one single item of clothing?

Behind the Label: H&M's Conscious Collection

Jessica Marati | Posted 04.08.2012 | Green
Jessica Marati

H&M's steps toward sustainability are certainly laudable. However, it's undeniable that H&M's fast fashion model is in itself wildly unsustainable.

High School Gay-Straight Alliance Takes On Mayor

| Posted 01.11.2012 | Home

Every week, HuffPost High School rounds up the best local news stories about high school students from across the country through our friends at Patch...

Let Your Life Speak: An Education in Action

J. Branson | Posted 02.14.2012 | Impact
J. Branson

My origin is Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. I spent 13 years as a student. Recently I returned home. I went right to where I first left, the middle school and without knowing it, I found out my value.

Define : Beauty Event Unites Fashion and Social Responsibility

Margaret Lucas | Posted 11.27.2011 | San Francisco
Margaret Lucas

How do you define beauty?  Do you define it through physicality? Through wealth or success? Is it something that radiates from inside the soul?  Or is it simply that which inspires us?



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

Liz Ricketts | Posted 11.20.2011 | Style
Liz Ricketts

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Back to School -- A Time to Wear the Difference

J. Branson | Posted 11.02.2011 | Impact
J. Branson

It's awesome to think that an entire school could show up for the first day of classes wearing shirts that encourage condom use and social acceptance of people living with HIV/AIDS.

Growing Sustainable Fashion One Story at a Time

J. Branson | Posted 07.05.2011 | Style
J. Branson

We might be young and inexperienced in the eyes of some, but we know that sustainable fashion is about the people behind our clothes -- the people who make them and the people who wear them.

PHOTOS: Fashion Week's Best Eco Designs

Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

From Ecouterre: While the forecast remained frigid, the Big Apple seemed to warm up just a bit with all the buzz and energy surrounding New York Fash...

Levi's Brand Is Better Than Yours

Mihal Freinquel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Mihal Freinquel

Levi's never fails to impress me. They have achieved a unique status in the fashion world that most brands cannot even dream of: being able to keep th...

Video: Jenni Avins' Wardrobe Surgery with Junky Styling

Jenni Avins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jenni Avins

I first heard of Junky Styling from Mathilda Tham -- you may remember her as the brainy beauty from Sweden.closettour who introduced me to the intersection between environmentalism, psychology and my closet.

Sustainability and Swedish Fashion: A New Website and a New Exhibit

Jenni Avins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Jenni Avins

Four days of reporting in Stockholm was the first step in a journey to define sustainable style, a subject cloaked in mystery. For the last few weeks, I've continued the search for sustainability, enlisting the help of fashion designers, physicists, factory managers and farmers.

Fashion's Broken Calendar

Jenni Avins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Jenni Avins

Even when I worked in fashion, I struggled to understand a system that kept designers "creating" relentlessly, so stores could stock winter sweaters in July, and bikinis shortly after Christmas.

Sustainable Fashion Strategy: Play Hard to Get, Take It Slow

Jenni Avins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Jenni Avins

I've seen the topic of sustainability, appear with increasing frequency. And while the fashion industry and the media agree on its importance, no one seems able to land on a definition.

Fabulous Fundraisers Use Fashion For a Good Cause

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Marissa Bronfman

Fashionphiles flocked to the first annual Frocktail Party on November 12th, eager to bid on a bevy of designer dresses up for auction in support of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Eco-Fashion: Accessories Made From LIVING Plants

Ecouterre | Jasmin Malik Chua | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

From moss-topped knuckle rings to couture heels layered in cowberry leaves, here are seven eco-accessories that put the "green" in green fashion....

5 Ways Fashion Can Save the World: Thoughts From COP15 Fashion Summit

Jasmin Malik Chua | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Jasmin Malik Chua

Can an industry synonymous with frippery, individualism, and overconsumption evolve to encompass ethics, collectivism, and restraint?

Book writing in an Italian restaurant

Summer Rayne Oakes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Summer Rayne Oakes

I don't know how many times it took dinner with Shawn to light a fire under my ass--maybe three? Maybe four? I don't even remember the restaurant, bu...

Beauty and the Eco-Beast: Why Disposable Fashion Isn't On the Enviro Radar

Vanessa Richmond | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Vanessa Richmond

Never in my wildest dreams could I ever imagine Anna Wintour wearing anything twice. Not even the same lipstick. Yet it happened. How could this be?