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How to Make It in Fashion: June 21, Dream Hotel Downtown, New York

Friday April 11th, 2008

Monday March 31st, 2008

Barneys and Loomstate Recycle Together

If you were planning on using some old t-shirts as rags or just bottom-of-the-dresser-drawer fluff, you might want to hang on a couple more weeks. Starting April 13, all Barneys stores will accept all those “vintage” tees from Urban you bought when you first started school, and hand them over to Loomstate so Rogan Gregory Read more →

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Friday February 1st, 2008

Fashion Week

Eco-Friendly Gets Pretty

We couldn’t think of a better way to kick off fashion week than to watch our favorite girls strut down an eco-friendly, recycled wood runway at Earth Pledge’s FutureFashion show last night. The show featured surprisingly ladylike looks from twenty-eight designers ranging from Marni to Versace. Each used sustainable, organically grown materials like bamboo, soybean Read more →

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Published at 11:01 AM

Monday November 19th, 2007

People We Like

Mr. Darcy Opens a Boutique

Colin Firth is getting into retail. The actor best known for playing Mr. Darcy / Mr. Bridget Jones / Amanda Bynes’ Dad in What A Girl Wants is opening a shop with his wife called Eco that’s devoted to bringing fair trade and earth savvy products to London. Besides selling things like organic cotton clothes Read more →

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Published at 9:22 AM

Wednesday November 14th, 2007

Shopping

Bamboozled

We’ve always thought of bamboo- when we’ve thought about bamboo at all– as the snack of adorable panda bears. Or else, a furniture material found in homes more “zen” or “beach-y” than our own. So we were a little surprised when we read in the Guardian today that bamboo is the latest and greatest arrival Read more →

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Published at 11:11 AM