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The Future of New York Fashion Week
About twice a year, four major cities around the world fill up with even more tourists than usual. The traffic gets even worse about hub areas, coffee shops and popular brunch places start filling…
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Recycling 101: How to Recycle and What to Recycle
Recycling is a tricky business. Everyone is expected to do, but there is about a million different types of recycling and a whole bunch of rules no one understands. Unfortunately, the global recycling landscape…
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Where the Common Clothing Fabrics Comes From
There are a lot of misconceptions out there when it comes to companies marketing their clothes or product as being made from “eco-friendly” material. This has generally led to confusion on where clothing fabrics…
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How to Shop Consciously and Practice Slow Fashion
One of the most important parts of being sustainable is practicing slow fashion. At its core, the concept of slow fashion is fairly straight forward: don’t buy new clothes. Of course, this is easier…
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Decomposition 101 and How to Responsibly Get Rid of Trash
One of the most confusing concepts in sustainability is understanding decomposition. What I am referring to is the big question of recycling versus biodegrading versus composting. One would imagine that since one of the…
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I Attended a United Nations Conference and Other 2019 Highlights
I kept telling myself, “Don’t fall into the cliché… who cares what your 2019 highlights are?”. However, as I am staring down the end of the decade after what was the most trying year…
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Why Luxury Fashion is Premium Mediocrity Regaling in Exclusivity
What is luxury fashion? What a loaded question. I began thinking about this after Business of Fashion published a thought-provoking Op-Ed on “premium mediocre” fashion, a term coined by blogger Venkatesh Rao. Ever since…
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What is Sustainability?
When it comes to sustainability, there are so many terms being thrown around. Ethical fashion, conscious fashion, slow fashion… to be honest, it can get pretty confusing. Then, we get into the root cause…
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Plagiarism in Fast Fashion and How It Contributes to the Waste
As grade school students, we all learned that plagiarism is the ultimate “no-no”. Schools held assemblies to teach their students why they shouldn’t cheat, and high school teachers scared their students with an F…