If you grew up in the Age of Google, you’re probably familiar with the hack-friendly practice of open sourcing—you know, offering up the source code of your program and letting the users improve and customize it to their nerdy heart’s content. Well, a group of intrepid fashion nerds (also known as fashionistas) are trying to hack their way into luxury production, and they’re inviting you along.
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As much as we love young designers, it’s still a rarity for a recent design school graduate to make our jaws drop to the floor. So when Style Bubble featured Helen Furber’sridiculously forward-thinking shoe designs, we had to share it withyou. They’re just that amazing.
Nicole Giordano is a textiles and accessories designer who writes the intersection of fashion, technology, and social media, offering her experience and expertise to you.
You’re starting a new line and, sensitive soul that you are, you’re considering going sustainable. Well good, I love hearing that. But is “green fashion” is a valid business maneuver or just a fleeting marketing angle? Do customers and retailers really buy into sustainability yet
Imagine wearing the same few items of clothing everyday for a month or, even worse, an entire year! Starting this week, a group of participants from California to Dubai are participating in the Six Items Or Less experiment by choosing only garments to wear for the next 30 days and share their experiences with a group blog. As lovers of fashion, we have wonder why in God’s good name would someone do that to themselves.
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Like any proper fashionista, we love a bargain on a hot trendy item, but lately we’re a little disillusioned with the fast fashion frenzy. Fast fashion is a term used to describe clothing collections which are based on the most recent fashion trends. These trends are designed and manufactured quickly and cheaply to allow the mainstream consumer to take advantage of current clothing styles at ultra low prices. In theory this is all well and good, but the fact of the matter is that these garments
Leblas Ethical Jewellery attended the 2-day Fashion Fusion Expo 2010 to experience ethical fashion shows, designers, and influential speakers in the ethical fashion industry.
It was a unique experience that encouraged fashion buyers, celebrities, designers and press to interact together and raise awareness about sustainable style, and the impact that it has on our economy and the environment.
On Friday, Lupe Castro, ethical stylist extraordinaire hosted a talk informing the audience of how to tran
AMIRA fell into fashion accidentally after a trip to India gave her a sudden
flash of celestial inspiration. During her travels she made her own clothes
and now nearly five years later her one-off and limited edition fair-trade
dresses, tops, jacket and lingerie – in printed end-of-run and surplus cottons
still sourced by hand from India - are available from eco-boutiques in London,
New York, and Milan.
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