October 2012
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Conscious fashion
Vancouver Eco Fashion Week. It’s like Vancouver Fashion Week, except the focus is on conscious fashion: sustainable fabrics, reuse, upcycling, fair trade — all things that the industry needs to embrace if it is to stop being one of the world’s largest polluters. One show was called the “68-pound challenge.” Kim Cathers of kdon put together a collection made up of 68...
June 2012
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Dakar Fashion Week →
Fashion week in West Africa! Gorgeous clothes on gorgeous models.
A video from the Clothing Traceability Project. It goes behind the scenes to reveal where our clothing comes from.
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May 2012
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Jelly Cam →
For me, jellyfish are beautiful and inspiring. Slow-motion is their normal speed! I don’t want to be stung by one, but I love to look at them.
I wish I could embed the player.
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It’s never too late to be who you might have been.
– George Eliot, English novelist (1819 - 1880) (from http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/31649.html)
In an interview, actor Meg Tilly said that her sister Jennifer (also an actor) gave her a gift that used that quote. Tilly had quit acting to focus on her family. Now she is back. No, it’s never...
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Respect your body but have the courage to make a statement. Dress like you have...
– Riccardo Tisci (via michellemokay), Creative Director at Givenchy
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April 2012
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