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GUNAS- cruelty free, luxury bags
By Melissa | Women
Gunas does not just mean "attributes and qualities of nature" in Sanskrit, it is also part anagram of designer, Sugandh Agrawal's, first name. GUNAS, progressive luxury is a brand of vegan handbags-for men and women- that is 100% cruelty and sweatsho...
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Fast fashion + luxury tycoons make Forbes Billionaire list
By Staff | News
Forbes has released their list of “Best Dressed Billionaires”—fashion moguls in the 1% of the 1%— Tory Burch’s divorce settlement outed both the designer and her now-ex-husband as billionaires early this year; while Amancio Ortega, Span...
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Shinji Nakaba - wearable sculptures from found items
By Aya | Women
Shinji Nakaba, is a jewelry designer in Tokyo who, despite his history of creating since 1974, brings us a fresh and delightful surprise with his artistic creations. The materials he chooses to use make his work unique and memorable. He uses not on...
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Style can be complicated but AWAVEAWAKE makes it easy
By Melissa | Women
Style can be complicated. It can stay stagnant, vary, evolve. It may depend on how we feel or how we want to feel. Who we want to be or at least try to. That is what makes describing ourselves, our aesthetic that complicated. Explaining it, g...
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Time for some spring "greening" - what to do with things you don't wear
By Kate | Women
How many times have you cleaned out your closet, dropped off heaps of things at the donation center, only to find yourself back in a cash register line thinking, "Didn't I just get rid of one of these?" As the seasons change and we prepare for the bi...
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The Brooklyn Fashion League: fashion localism
By Tamara | News
The Brooklyn Fashion League’s mission is to support, promote and inspire independent fashion designers through community, collaboration and co-working. It's a unique artist working space that has a commitment to the larger sustainability tenet of l...
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Boutique of the Week: Ethica
By Kate | Women
Honduran sisters Melissa and Carolina Cantor are the co-founders of a new, New York-based online retailer dedicated to high-style ethical fashion. With Ethica, the Cantor sisters aim to to connect consumers and companies that share a commitment to so...
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Sustainable Fashion: 100% Australian
By Kate | Women
Working from their home studio in Brisbane Australia, Sarah Garrett-Hodoniczky and Jason Hodoniczky started their first ethical fashion label, Rant Clothing in 2003. Determined to support local manufacturing in a competitive globalised market, Rant...
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KIDIKADO - the organic kid's atelier
By Kamila | Kids
KIDIKADO is right on trend – they use certified organic materials and a creative yet personal approach to clothing and crafts. With a wide assortment of baby to children's wear and stuffed animals from France, we all should have grown up so lucky,...
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Enjoying the elaborate beauty of Japanese Washi paper
By Aya | Living
A paper is one of the most useful tools ever invented. Many of us use manufactured papers such as copy paper, books and magazines, but there are also beautiful hand-made papers like French Mable papers or Japanese Washi papers almost too pretty to u...
