Join the #INSIDEOUT NYFW Party to bring awareness to transparency and fairness in the fashion supply chain. Hosted by the GreenShows, to celebrate Fashion Revolution Day, the party represents a turning point in fashion, and a place…
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Fashion was the last industry I saw myself working. But somewhere in between scraping plates in my universities’ cafeteria for food waste studies to my arm digging rumen out of a cow’s fourth stomach for ecological restoration research–I realized a…
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“We wanted to see the hidden world behind clothes sold in this country, so we decided to make a T-shirt. We wanted to make an ordinary shirt like the vast majority of the shirts sold in…
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Before I dipped into the fashion industry, my work in the field of sustainability took many shapes. From researcher to scientists to consultant. I researched MNCs, worked with NGOs and all acronyms in between. Green building was an…
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Greenwashing is all around us–from H&M’s Conscious Collection to Tom’s Shoes. So how can a consumer be sure what they are buying is ethical? And wait– what is sustainable fashion? Well it’s no one thing–there is a spectrum–so…
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GOTS certification in an internationally recognized labeling for “ethical” products made with fabric, but what does it actually mean? By their definition, GOTS is “the world’s leading processing standard for textiles made from organic fibers.” They…
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“The more we start the conversation, the more we continue the conversation, we find that customers really do care. It may not be something they come in thinking about but by the time they leave they…
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The True Cost Documentary has been funded! I met the director Andrew Morgan on his first tour around New York City over the summer as he was filming the preliminary round of interviews. It was extremely refreshing to…
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