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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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Photo via Style Bubble


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.

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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.


Sustainable Fashion | Image via Flikr/Abigail Doan


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

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Kelli Blake's picks from the Six Items or Less Project


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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“Nine years ago, when we started People Tree, people thought we were crazy. But in the past five years there’s been a huge change—people are more uneasy about fast fashion.” Indeed they are, making brands like Edun and People Tree ever more popular. [Guardian UK]http://www.afingo.com/blogs/blog-patrol/we-now-know-its-ethically-wrong-for-a-top-to-cost-as-little-as-a-sandwich-founder-of-ethical-fashion-line-people-tree-safia-minney/
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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

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Success for the Fashion Fusion Expo 2010


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

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One Million Tee

Onemilliontee is a project to sell 1,000,000 t-shirts, each with a unique number (from 1,2,3… to no. 1,000,000) . Our first collection is focused on Africa, aims to create job opportunities in Africa.All t-shirt will use 100% organic cotton produced in Africa. Currently we're still looking for the right supplier and partner.Please visit our blog: onemillionteeblog and our websiteGive us your support to make this project works ! ^^ Subscribe to our newsletter to get updates of our upcoming site a
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New Season Has Arrived

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.

Amira x
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Sustainability has become a buzzword in our lives. The future of our planet has evolved from something briefly talked about to something that we all have started to put much more emphasis on.Well known consulting company, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), declared publicly last week at the Climate Week in New York City that they’ve officially reduced their carbon footprint by 10% this fiscal year! This positive progress is all part of a much larger green initiative they announced last year to reduce
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Good news LUXies, Swiss chemicals manufacturer Clariant has just announced an eco-labeling initiative to help distinguish sustainable, green products from the rest. Clariant has just introduced ‘Ecotain’ to the world.In an opportunity to help the personal care industry focus on creating eco-friendly, economical and sustainable formulations, Clariant has created ‘EcoTain’ labeling. The ‘EcoTain’ label will only be given to products that meet the standards of greener formulations. For example, pro
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We would like to introduce to you an innovation in the the fashion industry. A novel league of eco-friendly fashion apparels made from this new innovation under the label called 'August'.The eco-friendly designer collection for women has been developed using a patented technology called DPOL. DPOL means 'Direct panel on loom'. The technology and collection is first of its kinds and patent has been acquired by its promoters and designer. DPOL is a signature technology which has been presented and
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