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Conscious Shopping Brought to You by Bangladesh’s Garment Factory Fire

Nov. 30, 2012 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

While online sales this past Black Friday jumped 26 percent to $1.04 billion and the National Retail Federation announced shoppers set a Black Friday record with 247 million shoppers visiting stores and websites over the four-day weekend, many consumers are still oblivious to what their bargain purchases drive. ake, for example, the fatal garment factory […]

Defining Green Fashion: 10 Buzz Words You Should Know

Nov. 20, 2012 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

Originally published on The Frisky There are lots of buzz words in the sustainable, I mean, eco, I mean, green world of fashion and who is really to say which one is better than the other? You. Thanks to the world getting ever the more politically correct, you need to have a reference guide to […]

Swindled by Christina Aguilera at the Stop & Shop

Nov. 18, 2012 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

I can’t help it. All it takes is one cheesy Christina Aguilera song at the Stop & Shop and I’m done for. Convinced. I AM beautiful no matter what they say. No matter if I arrived there in a mini van with my daughter’s 5 year-old Sponge Bob sticker lodged onto the back door. No […]

‘Dirty White Gold’s’ Leah Borromeo Talks GM Cotton, Farmer Suicides

Nov. 18, 2012 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

As Emmy Rossum and Zooey Deschanel like to remind us, cotton is the fabric of our lives. Yet its snow-white facade masks a less-than-rosy reality. Leah Borromeo, a journalist and filmmaker based in London, wants to unravel the complex web of “debts, pesticides, and suicides” that surrounds the fibers of our clothing. Nearly 300,000 Indian […]

Manufacture NY: A Fashion Incubator That Champions Local Manufacturing

Nov. 09, 2012 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

While New York City’s Garment District battles massive real-estate pushes and a dearth of designers choosing to manufacture domestically, one woman is spearheading a mission to transform U.S. production into the most affordable, innovative option for all. Bob Bland, a Brooklyn-based fashion designer, entrepreneur, and community art advocate stands at the helm of Manufacture New […]

The Monster Challenges of Cheap, Low-Maintenance ‘Frankenfabrics’

Nov. 03, 2012 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

That’s a Wrap! Indigo Handloom Launches a Scarf Design Contest

Nov. 03, 2012 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

10 Climate Change Stories to Help the Presidential Candidates Catch Up

Nov. 03, 2012 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

Between the Lines: Our Biographies as History

Nov. 03, 2012 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

Conscious life, hear me roar. I recently got a direct message on Facebook from a high school friend I haven’t talked to in many years. “Do you still have that picture of you and the ghost in Africa?” He wrote. I sat there staring at the screen, thinking it funny that after so many years, […]

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