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Ethical Fashion

Can seams of excess and exclusivity really be rewoven into ones of regeneration and recovery, or is fashion’s recent obsession with sustainability only skin-deep?

Why I Am Swimming 450km To Help Stop Waste Colonialism

Why I Am Swimming 450km To Help Stop Waste Colonialism

Why I Am Swimming 450km To Help Stop Waste Colonialism Accra’s waterways are bubbling with synthetic microfibers and material debris after decades of nonstop waste-dumping by countries in the Global North. Yvette Tetteh is swimming the length of the country’s longest river to draw attention to the urgency of the problem.

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Can Made-To-Order Brands Slow Down the Fashion System?

Can Made-To-Order Brands Slow Down the Fashion System?

Can Made-To-Order Brands Slow Down the Fashion System? The rise of made-to-order fashion labels is good news for the industry’s sustainability credentials, reducing waste, minimizing stock surplus, and encouraging clothes to treasure. But the scale of impact remains uncertain.

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Palestinian Tatreez: Embroidering Resistance and Remembrance

Palestinian Tatreez: Embroidering Resistance and Remembrance

Palestinian Tatreez: Embroidering Resistance and Remembrance Palestinian women have played an integral role in resisting the Israeli occupation. Tatreez—an artful embroidery technique with radical roots—is just one of the many tools they have utilized.

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Copenhagen Fashion Week Rewrites Fashion’s Villain Era

Copenhagen Fashion Week Rewrites Fashion’s Villain Era

Copenhagen Fashion Week Rewrites Fashion’s Villain Era This season, Copenhagen Fashion Week implemented minimum sustainability criteria that brands must adhere to in order to show their collections. But can regulation be enough?

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Digital vs Slow: The Future of Sustainable Fashion

Digital vs Slow: The Future of Sustainable Fashion

Digital vs Slow: The Future of Sustainable Fashion Fashion designer and pedal loom artist Nicklas Skovgaard speaks with Anna Liedtke, digital design director at The Fabricant, about their respective approaches to disrupting the fashion system.

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The Toxic History of Color

The Toxic History of Color

The Toxic History of Color For all of human history, our species have used both natural and synthetic dyes—but have we taken our obsession with color to an extreme?

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Full Spectrum: Honoring Queerness in Nature

Full Spectrum: Honoring Queerness in Nature

Full Spectrum: Honoring Queerness in Nature For many queer people, nature is a place free of judgment and conformity, where diversity is celebrated and crucial to survival. Here, queer models weighed in on how queerness and nature connect—a reminder that there is nothing more natural than being who you are.

Art & Culture Queer Ecology

Visible Light: Colorism and Perception

Visible Light: Colorism and Perception

Visible Light: Colorism and Perception Light touches all that we see, giving way to a world of complex shapes, tones, and textures—from the skin to the walls we live in.

Art & Culture Ethical Fashion

Unpacking Clean Beauty’s Real Impact

Unpacking Clean Beauty’s Real Impact

Unpacking Clean Beauty’s Real Impact One of the industry’s most lucrative buzzwords abounds with gray areas—especially when it comes to how good products are for our health and the planet. What’s to be done?

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Would You Wear a Living Plant?

Would You Wear a Living Plant?

Would You Wear a Living Plant? Designer Paula Ulargui Escalona is channeling her creativity to grow greenery from clothes. Her mission is to show just how beautiful fashion’s collaboration with nature could be.

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How Bobby Kolade Is Taking on the Secondhand Clothing Trade

How Bobby Kolade Is Taking on the Secondhand Clothing Trade

How Bobby Kolade Is Taking on the Secondhand Clothing Trade Used clothes have become big business, and corporations in the Global North are reaping the benefits. With Buzigahill, the Ugandan designer is repurposing the West’s secondhand garments and sending them back to the countries from which they came in a bid to reimagine the system.

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From Attire to Ashes: Clothing Waste in the Atacama Desert

From Attire to Ashes: Clothing Waste in the Atacama Desert

From Attire to Ashes: Clothing Waste in the Atacama Desert In Chile’s Atacama Desert, there are mountains of unwanted clothes from brands like Nike, Old Navy, Hugo Boss, and even Chanel. Photographer Naguel Rivero and stylist Stephania Yepes reimagine the real-life effects of the fashion industry’s systemic overproduction of goods.

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Scaling a Next-Gen Material

Scaling a Next-Gen Material

Scaling a Next-Gen Material The recent release of Stella McCartney’s Frayme bag, the first ever mushroom leather bag to be sold commercially, has been a long time coming. Its debut serves as a blueprint for brands entering an era of biomaterials in search of greener fabrics.

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DIY Is Not a Trend—It’s a Necessity

DIY Is Not a Trend—It’s a Necessity

DIY Is Not a Trend—It’s a Necessity Western fashion media have hailed the rise of DIY as a pandemic-era fad. But in Nairobi’s Warembo Wasanii—a community program that teaches women to create art from trash—a culture of upcycling was born to solve the problem of imported waste.

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Róisín Pierce’s Radical Reimagining of Zero Waste Fashion

Róisín Pierce’s Radical Reimagining of Zero Waste Fashion

Róisín Pierce’s Radical Reimagining of Zero Waste Fashion The fast-rising designer outlines why the pace of the current fashion calendar is at odds with respectful and sustainable industry practices.

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Product Drops—But Make It Mindful

Product Drops—But Make It Mindful

Product Drops—But Make It Mindful The drop model, where a brand releases a limited run of items every few weeks, is often linked to overconsumption and waste. But a new wave of designers are utilizing the strategy as a way to run sustainable fashion businesses.

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