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6 Eco-Friendly Ways to Beat Common Summer Skin, Hair Complaints
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Ad:Acta Upcycles Discarded Ring Binders Into Into One-of-a-Kind Bags
Pity the ring binder. Once a mainstay of offices everywhere, the archival tool is quickly headed the way of the Rolodex. Ad:Acta wants to press them into service again. The German company salvages...
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Constrvct: An App That Lets You Turn Any Photo Into Custom Clothing
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“HyperNatureSuperHuman” Challenges Student Designers to Create Fashion...
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LUSH Launches Vegan-Friendly “Emotional Brilliance” Makeup Line
LUSH’s new “Emotional Brilliance” line of makeup is a conscious coquette’s wet dream—at first blush anyway. The color-wheel’s worth of liquid lip colors, eyeliners, cream shadows, and translucent face...
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Is New York City’s Garment Center Worth Saving?
At this very moment, thousands of people in Midtown Manhattan are designing and manufacturing apparel all within a 10-block radius in New York City’s Garment Center. The innovation, opportunity, and...
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14 Eco-Friendly Backpacks That Deserve an A+ in Style
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14 Eco-Friendly Back-to-School Fashions That Make the Grade
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9 Eco-Fashionable Garments Inspired by Architecture
Fashion and architecture are more than casual acquaintances. Both disciplines entail filling voids with contours, swoops, and planes, albeit on markedly different scales. Sometimes, however, the...
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Ecouterre’s Eco-Friendly Back-to-School Shopping Guide
Photo by Shutterstock Time to fold up the lounge chairs: It’s the last day of summer vacation. Whether you’re headed to the lockers or the cubicle, we’ve rustled up some great, green gear to ease the...
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Organic by John Patrick Brings the Urban Commune to Spring 2013 New York...
Photos by Amanda Coen for Ecouterre Crisp but never starched: John Patrick brought Organic’s signature toss-on-and-go aesthetic to New York Fashion Week on Wednesday morning with a parade of linen...
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Samantha Pleet Turns Back the Sands of Time at Spring 2013 New York Fashion Week
Photos by Amanda Coen for Ecouterre To say that Samantha Pleet’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection is epic isn’t a matter of hyperbole. Presented at the Wolverine store in Manhattan’s Lower East Side at...
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EDUN Redefines Military Luxe at Spring 2013 New York Fashion Week
Photos by Jill Fehrenbacher for Ecouterre Tough and girly, soft but edgy: True to its rocker heritage—U2′s Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson, are the African-focused label’s founders— EDUN brought the...
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14 Eco-Chic Gifts You Can Make Yourself (DIY Tutorials)
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Read a 12-Year-Old’s Mother’s Day Poem About the Dangers of Fast Fashion
Photo by Shutterstock I wrote this poem for my mom [Ecouterre writer Amy DuFault] on Mother’s Day hoping to impress her with my knowledge of what she does for a living. Knowing about some of the...
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Thread & Loom’s Fairly Hand-Loomed Bags Fund Girls’ Education in India
Photos by Amanda Coen for Ecouterre Socially-driven accessories company, Thread & Loom introduces itself to the world with a line of handbags that make for the perfect spring and summer carry-all...
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Gap, Walmart’s Concerns About Bangladesh Accord Liability Are “Irrational”
Photo by Khurshed Rinku for Associated Press On Friday, it’ll be a month since a devastating building collapse claimed the lives of 1,127 garment workers outside the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka. The...
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A Haunting Embrace Amid the Rubble of the Bangladesh Building Collapse
Photo by Taslima Akhter “I have been asked many questions about the photograph of the couple embracing in the aftermath of the [Rana Plaza building] collapse [in Bangladesh]. I have tried desperately,...
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Ukrainian Carpenter Carves Functioning Watches Entirely From Wood
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Your New T-Shirt Slogan: Spectrum & Ali & Tazreen & Rana
Photos by Dan Cutrona Can you stop fast fashion with a T-shirt? Probably not, but it’s a start. When Rana Plaza came tumbling down in Bangladesh in April, those of us in the sustainable fashion...
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