Sustainable Fashion

Behind the Label: H&M's Conscious Collection

Jessica Marati | Posted 04.08.2012

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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.

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High School Gay-Straight Alliance Takes On Mayor

| Posted 01.11.2012

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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...

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Let Your Life Speak: An Education in Action

J. Branson | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Sidwell Friends School, Of Rags, Sustainable Fashion, Sidwell of Rags, Sustainability Clothing Ghana, Fashion of Rags, Ghana of Rags, Video, Impact News

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.

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Define : Beauty Event Unites Fashion and Social Responsibility

Margaret Lucas | Posted 11.27.2011

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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?  

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

Liz Ricketts | Posted 11.20.2011

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Back to School -- A Time to Wear the Difference

J. Branson | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, HIV Prevention, Fashion, Sustainable Fashion, Ghana, Healthy Lifestyle, Of Rags, Video, Impact News

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.

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Growing Sustainable Fashion One Story at a Time

J. Branson | Posted 07.05.2011

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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.

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PHOTOS: Fashion Week's Best Eco Designs

Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Levi's Brand Is Better Than Yours

Mihal Freinquel | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Video: Jenni Avins' Wardrobe Surgery with Junky Styling

Jenni Avins | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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

Jenni Avins | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Fashion's Broken Calendar

Jenni Avins | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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

Jenni Avins | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Eco-Fashion: Accessories Made From LIVING Plants

Ecouterre | Jasmin Malik Chua | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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

Jasmin Malik Chua | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Fabulous Fundraisers Use Fashion For a Good Cause

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

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Book writing in an Italian restaurant

Summer Rayne Oakes | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

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

Vanessa Richmond | Posted 05.25.2011

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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?

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The Best Of Sustainable Fashion

Guardian.co.uk | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ciel is among the most visible and successful of the stylish eco-brands - they are even sold on high-fashion websites like mywardrobe.com and net-a-po...

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