When we first found The Ethical Silk Company, we had no idea there was such a thing as “ethical silk”. Traditionally, the extraction of silk from silkworms involves processes that end the life of the worms; a technique developed in 1991 in India makes it
I found Therapy Recycle & Exorcise on social media and Katie’s Eco-Vintage post and immediately fell in love with it. Their vintage and daring designs speak to a timeless approach to fashion. Rock and Roll, vintage, sex and short shorts are some of the first concepts
What is the best way to sort your clothes? Have you found yourself magically losing garments and forgetting what you have? Do you “stumble upon” clothes rather than gracefully picking them from an organized and color coded grid? If this sounds familiar, I have a
This week’s headlines October 18-24 Average environmental cost of a t-shirt set at $2 The Danish Environmental Protection Agency published “Danish apparel sector natural capital account“, a research document on the impact of apparel production in Denmark. In this paper, they calculate the natural capital costs
Being a more ethical consumer shouldn’t be hard. As a matter of fact, it’s very easy, there is one major rule that is the base of it all: I could stop here, since this is pretty much all you need to do. Buying fewer clothes will
Here is the deal: most ethical fashion brands are ugly. I don’t like the clothes and if I ever bought them, it wouldn’t be for style or beauty. Some brands feel the need to “look” sustainable, using unfortunate fabrics like hemp and designing clothes for