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Able Made, Pamela Love Create Necklace for NYC Animal Shelter

Jul. 21, 2014 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

Shopping at Able Made is always a two-fer. Known for its collaborative spirit, the conscious e-tailer has worked with likes of Public School, Melissa Joy Manning, Loomstate’s Scott Mmackinlay Hahn, and FEED Projects’ Lauren Bush Lauren. Suzanne McKenzie, the company’s founder, can now add another name to her already-impressive roster: New York City artist and […]

The Tailor Project Takes a Trip Around the U.S.

Jul. 17, 2014 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

I’ve always liked the idea of a chain letter and being part of some bigger piece of the world puzzle. That you could travel without traveling and land into the arms of people you might not ever meet or become something tangible right in their hands. We’ve lost so much of this human contact over […]

RiverBlue Documentary Director David McIlvride on Denim Pollution

Jul. 17, 2014 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

River Blue is a Canadian feature documentary focused on an around-the-world journey by river, culminating in one of the most ambitious river documentaries ever undertaken. Featuring internationally acclaimed river advocate Mark Angelo, who has quite possibly paddled more rivers in his lifetime than anyone else on this planet, Mark has sadly watched the decline of […]

Q&A: 4 NYC Designers Celebrate Independence from the Fashion Industry

Jul. 04, 2014 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

What happens when designers are forced to keep pace with the fashion industry, to create designs based on a future that is easily presented in real time by fast fashion houses? They quit…the fashion race that is. We caught up with four New York City based designers who opted off the fashion calendar for their […]

Designer Advice: True Collaborative Fashion’s Tyler Forrest

Jul. 04, 2014 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

Tyler Forrest is co-founder of True Collaborative Showroom based in Portland, Oregon that represents and consults independent fashion designers and brands. Although responsible design is always present Tyler and his wife and TCF co-founder Tracey Forrest like contemporary craftsmanship, handmade artistry, and things made in America. Some of the brands they currently represent include Seattle’s […]

INTERVIEW: Donna Hardy of Sea Island Indigo

Jul. 04, 2014 / by Amy DuFault / 0 Comments

272 years after the first successful indigo crop was planted in the Carolina colonies, Donna Hardy of Sea Island Indigo got an idea to research and track down the original strain of indigo plants that were grown in colonial Charleston. Her research and persistence located a few remaining varieties in isolated areas that had been […]

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