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For Alyce Santoro of Sonic Fabric, Off-Grid Living is Always in Fashion

For Alyce Santoro of Sonic Fabric, Off-Grid Living is Always in Fashion

Multimedia artist Alyce Santoro may be best known in the fashion community for her woven cassette-tape Sonic Fabric, but the conceptual artist, activist, and homesteader contains multitudes we’ve

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EcoSkin Pioneers Use of Zero-Waste “Wholegarment” Tech For Eco-Fashion

EcoSkin Pioneers Use of Zero-Waste “Wholegarment” Tech For Eco-Fashion

From pheromone-pumping dresses to underpants that send text messages when you wet yourself, we like to think we’ve seen it all. (Obviously, we haven’t.) EcoSkin’s use of Shima

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Noon Solar Launches America’s First Natural-Dye Production House

Noon Solar Launches America’s First Natural-Dye Production House

Few people, perhaps, understand the seasonal alchemy of Mother Nature better than Jane Palmer, co-creator of the Noon Solar line of bags and now the founder of the first—and so far only—natural-dye

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Jennifer Wen Ma’s Hand-Paints Add Moody Drama to Eko-Lab’s Fall ’10 Line

Jennifer Wen Ma’s Hand-Paints Add Moody Drama to Eko-Lab’s Fall ’10 Line

Jennifer Wen Ma’s beautifully dappled charcoal prints at Ekovaruhuset’s New York Fashion Week show so mesmerized us that we simply had to find out more about the Emmy Award-winning artist and

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reMade USA Upcycles Leather Jackets into One-of-a-Kind Bags

reMade USA Upcycles Leather Jackets into One-of-a-Kind Bags

I’ve been making handbags for almost 15 years. It’s a weird obsession that started in 1995 after I spent a semester studying in London. A few years ago, I had small business producing really

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Stewart + Brown’s Karen Stewart Gets Grilled By Our Cub Reporter: Her 6-Year-Old Daughter

Stewart + Brown’s Karen Stewart Gets Grilled By Our Cub Reporter: Her 6-Year-Old Daughter

Photo by Torrey Simonsen Hazel Stewart Brown was born in 2002, the same year that her parents, Karen Stewart and Howard Brown, founded their pioneering eco-fashion label. Stewart + Brown, which they

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JulieApple’s Eco-Friendly Bags Take a Bite Out of Water Footprint With AirDye Technology

JulieApple’s Eco-Friendly Bags Take a Bite Out of Water Footprint With AirDye Technology

For former LeSportsac veteran Julianne Applegate, who went rogue in July with her own line of boldly patterned stuff sacks, great design is synonymous with green design. “To create great, green

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Patagonia’s Sugar & Spice: A Disassembling Shoe That Makes Recycling a Snap

Patagonia’s Sugar & Spice: A Disassembling Shoe That Makes Recycling a Snap

Despite its groundbreaking premise, the Sugar & Spice hasn’t been the roaring success that Patagonia had hoped it would be. The first—and so far, only—shoe of its kind in the ethical

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Recipe for Success: Permacouture Stirs Up Bold, Plant-Based Hues For Mr. Larkin

Recipe for Success: Permacouture Stirs Up Bold, Plant-Based Hues For Mr. Larkin

With all the fashion-forward inroads made at The GreenShows at New York Fashion Week, it’s obvious that today’s eco-fashionistas are savvier than ever about the alchemy of eco-couture. What they

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Lara Miller Talks About Her New York Eco-Fashion Week Debut

Lara Miller Talks About Her New York Eco-Fashion Week Debut

Lara Miller’s runway debut at The GreenShows lacked some of the theatrics that are the hallmark of New York Fashion Week, but the Chicago-based designer’s signature wit and affinity for

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