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Cute and Easy Ways to Repurpose Your Fashion Throw-Aways

You don't have to start an organic cotton farm in your backyard to do your part in making fashion more sustainable. In honor of Earth Day, we put together an illustrated guide to making your home—and life!--a little more green. With minimal tools and money spent, these crafty eco-friendly solutions are easy to assemble, pretty to look at, and kind to Mama Earth. Oh—and you definitely don't need a garden to get these guys growing. We all live in NYC and, yeah, we are not living that garden lifestyle. Ready to get recycling? Click through for inspiration!

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Fashion News Roundup: Condé Nast College Gets a Home, Jean Paul Gaultier x La Perla Returns, and Gucci Releases a Travel Collection

The Conde Nast College is no longer a myth. It will be opening in London's Soho district in January 2013. {Refinery 29} Didn't think a "killer red lip" could actually kill your job, did you? Neither did Francine Siddaway, until she was fired for wearing too much make-up. {Stylelist} Gucci has launched a year-round travel collection for those of us who need Gucci for every occasion. {WWD} Jean Paul Gaultier has released his second collaboration with La Perla {WWD}

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Fashion News Roundup: Gwyneth Paltrow Sells $200 GOOP Jeans, Alessandra Ambrosio Is in Trouble with PETA, and Victoria Beckham Hangs Out With a Dolphin

The former intern who sued Harper's Bazaar back in February is now suing Dana Lorenz and the Fenton Fallon group, where she interned last summer. {NY Post} Black and yellow is fall's buzziest color combination. Unfortunately, it can potentially leave you looking like a bumblebee. Let FabSugar show you how to avoid a faux-pas and wear it the right way. {FabSugar} The United Arab Emirates is considering imposing tourist dress codes, banning short shorts and revealing dresses in the modest, Muslim nation. {HuffingtonPost} In the market for a breezy summer layering piece? Look no further than this quick and easy DIY. {Refinery29}

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Broke and the City: Beauty Treatments From Household Items

One of the most irksome parts of trying to get by on little money is that inevitable time when you run out of a necessary beauty item. Buying another is more of a need than a want but it's like a pin in your side to have to shell out precious dollars on shampoo or mascara, especially if you share our opinion that it's better to splurge on a few nicer beauty products that you'll use every day rather than on an expensive article of clothing that gets much less wear. However, while some beauty products are worth shelling out for, many others you can easily make at home for little to no money. Raiding the cupboards or local bodegas can be surprisingly fruitful and yields results identical to those of pricey packaged products. Here, we've compiled a how-to of basic at-home treatments ranging from hair conditioners to teeth whitening.

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P.S. I Made This...With Fashionista: DIY Royal Wedding Fascinator

Fascinated by fascinators? Kate Middleton's fondness for fascinators (they're de rigueur for royals and posh Brits at formal affairs) have created an increased fascination for the frou frou head pieces. Google searches for fascinator are up 50% since January and sales have spiked at the few US retailers that sell them, according to CNN. So in honor of the big day tomorrow, we asked DIY goddess Erica Domesek of P.S. I Made This... to come up with a fascinator that you can make at home so we can all be like Kate. You know you wanna...

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DIY: Make Over Your Not-So-It Bag

So, you got an It bag. You know you shouldn't have splurged but you convinced yourself that you absolutely cannot live without it (this season anyway). You buy it. You notice that every girl (and Bryanboy impersonator) on the street is carrying "it." Now you feel like that person wearing a fedora and you have no money to purchase anything from the Fall 2010 first deliveries. What to do?

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DIY: We Made a Fashionista Tee At the Topshop Bus Stop and Now So Can You

Last Spring, a tricked-out Topshop truck showered the city with gift cards and tote bags in anticipation of the store's opening. Since this Wednesday, the same truck has been on a promotional tour around the city. We wanted to see what all the fuss was about, so we decided to, quite literally, get our hands dirty and head over to McCarren Park in Billyburg for Day 3. What we found was a full-on t-shirt customization workshop, so we grabbed a free tee, and with some help and inspiration from a few well-dressed Topshop employees, gave it a full-on Fashionista makeover. While ours was certainly not the most intricate or detailed, it was pretty easy to make and we are proud of it, so here are some step-by-step instructions in case you want to make your own!