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New Webinar Series Shows How To Make Fair Trade Fashion


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Published Jan. 30, 2011 at 1:27 p.m.
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Photo: SFD National Association of Sustainable Fashion Designers (SFD), a non-profit founded by Jamila Payne in 2008, is launching a year-long webinar series with Fair Trade USA and Eco Fashion World, called "Fashion Ideas," dedicated to helping fashion entrepreneurs flourish in the sustainable fashion sector. The upcoming session, taking pace on February 9, 2011 at 6pm (EST), will focus on how to produce fair trade clothing ...

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Awamaki Lab Puts Impoverished Weavers From Peru to Work on New Upscale Fashion Collection (Interview)


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Published Jan. 26, 2011 at 4:55 p.m.
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Photo: Kate Reeder for Awamaki Lab Peruvian non-profit Awamaki Lab has released an inaugural collection head up by designer Nieli Vallin, a student from Paris's Chambre Syndical de la Couture. Vallin participated in a four-month residency program that brings designers to the Patacancha Valley of Ollantaytambo, Peru where they work with impoverished Quencha women weavers and develop contemporary clothing for a western market using fair trade textiles. The made-to-order Awamaki Lab collection

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Fair Trade Artisan-Made Silk Scarves Support Education in Cambodia


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Published Nov. 28, 2010 at 11:18 a.m.
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A young Cambodian student wears Cambodian Threads' silk scarf. Photo: Cambodian Threads For Cambodian Threads, a small, socially responsible company that sells fair trade silk scarves, they're set set on making a difference in the small Cambodian village that inspired the founding of their company: for every silk scarf they sell, they purchase basic school supplies for ten chi ...

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The Stitching Studio: Beautiful Products With Flawless Fabrics, Helping Refugee Women


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Published Nov. 18, 2010 at 6:20 p.m.
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Photos: Seema Krish ... Helping refugees from hotspots like Sudan, Bhutan and Iraq that are based in the US with limited language skills and no work is the goal of soon to be launched project The Stitching Studio.Founded by designers Seema Krish and Fran Z. Slutsky, it seeks to do so through a training program to teach them sewing and embroidery skills in Boston, which they will then use to make beautiful products with fair trade artisan fabrics from India. More inside ...

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Veja Shoes Launches Chrome-Free Suede and Wild Rubber Shoes for Winter (Photos)


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Published Nov. 9, 2010 at 12:20 p.m.
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Photo: Veja We have raved about Veja's fair trade, organic cotton trainers and line of bags in the past and for fall/winter 2010, the French footwear label has introduced a new timeless footwear style, called "Veja Indigenos." Made with chrome-free tanned suede and wild rubber--harvested by a cooperative of small producers on rubber trees in the Amazon--the Vej ...

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The Going Green Exhibition Gives an Earthy Education at the Eco-Fashion


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Published Nov. 1, 2010 at 11:12 p.m.
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Photo credit: FIT Fair Trade. Local. Vegan. Organic. We've all heard these buzz words when it comes to the food in our grocery stores and on our plates. But when it comes to the blossoming sustainable fashion movement, there are so many catch phrases that shopping with a conscience can be downright daunting--not to mention the controversy surrounding exactly how to define an "eco-garment." "Eco-Fashion: Going Green," an exhibition on display ...

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PETA Butter and Jelly Sandwich, Anyone?


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Published Sept. 10, 2010 at 3:05 p.m.
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Image via Ecorazzi In a further effort to provide animal-cruelty-free food options to consumers, PETA slapped their logo on a jar of peanut butter to remind eaters that yes, there are well-loved vegan options for lunch. They didn't however, slap their logo on any vegan-friendly bread, the more obvious area where consumers would need help quickly eyeballing options that are animal product-free. What is PETA up to with this new label? ...

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Classic Polo Meets Organic Cotton in New Men's Fair Trade Fashion Label


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Published Aug. 28, 2010 at 11:31 a.m.
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Image courtesy of Tompkins Point Apparel ... For those who call "The Official Preppy Handbook" a must read -- if you missed it, the forthcoming follow-up called "True Prep" is coming soon -- there's a green (and pink) option for the classic polo with insignia on the left chest from new fair trade label Tompkins Point Apparel. In fact, this is the first third-party certified Fair Trade fashion available in the US. More: ...

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20 Seasonless Green Accessories to Wear Year-Round


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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 11:25 a.m.
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Hand-loomed silk and wool shawl from eBay's World of Good ... When World of Good by eBay asked me to choose my favorite eco-fashion picks from their fair trade marketplace -- packed with thousands of products that positively influence people and planet -- for a feature on their site, I jumped at the chance to go "virtual window shopping" and pick accessories that accent outfits, regardless of seasonal trends or personal style; I honed in on clothing made by hand with high-quality, local and

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Stylish Alpargatas by Pauline In Love Promote The Work Of Recovered Factories


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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 2:45 p.m.
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Photos: Courtesy of Pauline in Love ... While most people will probably agree in that the work of TOMS shoes is remarkable, some argue that encouraging change in society to avoid poverty in the first place is better than charity. Enter Pauline in Love, a brand from Argentina that pro ...

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