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How Do I Sew Thee? Let Me Count The Ways
Upcycling is a creative design solution to an environmental crisis - it is also the single most effective way at slowing down fashion without resorting to boycotting brands. Because we don't need to...
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From The Masses To Indies: My Journey To Sustainable Fashion
'So why did you get into sustainable fashion?' is a question I get asked pretty much every week and I don't think I've ever been able to give one definitive answer. For me it's been a cumulative...
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Fast Fashion: Can It Be Sustainable?
In the last 50 years, the way we produce and consume fashion has dramatically changed. Fast fashion retailers have made the case that they have democratised the fashion experience - no longer reserved...
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Nappy and coarse are words most of us are all too familiar with when we think of 'Black' hair, but perhaps these words are slowly being confined to the annals of history, because black hair today is...
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Ashish Responds To Anti-Immigrant Sentiment By Celebrating His Indian...
If fashion is a language, Ashish Gupta's Spring Summer 17 collection at London Fashion Week spoke of multi-cultural defiance in reaction to the post-Brexit toxic anti-immigrant sentiment and violence...
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Sustainable Fashion Made Easy
Fast Fashion is Big Business. There is some serious money to be made meeting the seemingly insatiable demand of consumers in the developed world for cheap clothes. This demand for cheaper and cheaper...
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Why I'm Not Buying Any New Clothes for 12 Months - A Sustainable Fashion...
How long has it been since your last high street shopping trip? After impulse buying a pinafore at the end of last year that I didn't need and wasn't sure even fit me properly, I started to really...
View ArticleFour Reasons You Should Never Make Your Own Vitamin C Serum
Vitamin C serums are a fantastic addition to anyones beauty arsenal as a quality serum can reduce inflammation to help clear acne, promote collagen formation to plump out scars and fade post acne marks...
View ArticleAre You, Like Me An Alpha EAT Or Like Most Women Sane And Sensible?
My name is Jan Shure and I am an Early Adopter. That is an Early Adopter of Trends. So, perhaps, that should be "My name is Jan Shure and I am an EAT." I do not use the phrase familiar from addiction...
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Next Level Product Personalisation: DNA-Matched Skincare
The anti-ageing industry is at peak demand and recent research by Trinity College Dublin has even shown that how you see yourself ageing can affect brain ageing. As a result, the beauty industry is...
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You Are A Bona Fide Fashion Revolutionista. Now What?
Photo Credit: Astrid Westvang @Flickr So what does community based political organisation (i.e. the kind that got Obama elected) and The Fashion Revolution have in common? Actually much more than...
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How Will London Fashion Week Impact On The World?
London Fashion Week is officially over. I struggle to choose a favourite fashion designer as all the collections were stunning. London fashion week is not like any other cities. The designers aren't...
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Diamonds Are A Sustainable Girl's Best Friend
It's simple, upcycle. What I really should have said is 'second-hand diamonds are a girl's best friend'. When it comes to the sustainable fashion movement, nothing stands the test of time like...
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How To Define Your Own Personal Style
Hands up if you have recently made an instantaneous clothing purchase to find that you don't actually love the item when you get round to wearing it a couple of times? I know I am not alone, the UK...
View ArticleOld Fashioned Skincare Secrets
Old fashioned skincare secrets When it comes to our beauty and skincare regimes, nowadays we are spoilt for choice, as an array of treatments and brands fill the shelves. However, it hasn't always been...
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What It Means For A Startup To Win A Life-Changing Award?
Since I met Adriana - inventor and co-founder - and we decided to build a team and develop her crazy idea of turning orange peels into a sustainable and silky textile for fashion, almost four years...
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The Top Five Mindful Fashion Reads
When surfing the web there is a multitude of constantly evolving information on sustainable fashion, and to tackle it can seem like a daunting task. However, there are some great experts in the field...
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Models Of Diversity Show The Fashion Industry What Diversity REALLY Looks Like
The original rock chick Jo Wood shows her support for change in the fashion industry by opening the Models Of Diversity fashion event. Ahead of the biggest event in any fashionistas diary, London...
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How A Year Of Living Out Of A Backpack Inspired Me To Start A Sustainable...
Photo credit: Harjit Sohotey-Khan I watched as a young woman sitting by the side of a dirt road, skilfully weaved Yak fibres into a beautiful shawl. Her delicate hands worked the handloom with deft...
View ArticleVogue Editors Are No Longer The Gatekeepers Of Fashion: Their Lashing Out At...
Vogue Editors Sally Singer, Sarah Mower, Nicole Phelps and Alessandra Codinha have unleashed a scathing attack on 'fashion bloggers', thinly veiled as a review of Milan Fashion Week on Vogue.com which...
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