How to Choose Clothes That Last by Starre Vartan for Mother Nature Network, is a timely article on spending wisely on clothing purchases to ensure they last and continue to bring you pleasure through years to come.
Ramblers Way was born appropriately on a 2-week trek across the rolling hills of Wales, and conceived by Tom Chappell of Tom of Maine fame.
Blythe Metz in conversation with ecoSkin designer and CEO, Sandy Skinner talking about the impact the textile industry has on pollution and the alternatives we have available.
Kestrel Jenkins connects with Ren Yung Ho & Hanna Hillila, Co-Founder and Creative Director at MATTER. Ren and Hanna share the origins of Matter Prints, and their hopes and dreams for connecting artisans around the globe.
Start small, dream big, change lives— how Stacey Edgar harnessed the power of fair trade to help women in poverty help themselves by founding Global Girlfriends.
Hair embroidery is a particular technique practiced by lay Buddhist women to create devotional images, where embroiderers used their own hair as threads and applied them on silk to stitch figures. This video on the hair embroideries of Guanyin offers a window on this tradition.
Bestowed is an eco fashion brand based in Australia. Pushing the boundaries of eco fashion, Bestowed is 100% Australian made and uses only pure cotton fabrics, and is naturally vegan friendly.
The VOZ collection or Spring Summer 2017 incorporates fluid silk chiffon and slipper satin, combined as always with traditional hand woven Machupe textiles from Chile.
This video short from Haute Culture shows how a traditional Buddhist monk ties his saffron robe.
Kestrel Jenkins connects with Alberto Bravo, Co-founder of We Are Knitters about the rise of the cool factor in the knitting & crocheting community, exploring whether knitting and crocheting are trending or if they are part of a lifestyle shift for people around the world.
In the fourth instalment of BoF’s fashion history series, we meet the creator of the “little black dress,” who took her cues from a country in mourning.
With a belief that clothing can only be beautiful if it is made that way, HOPE sources sustainable and eco-friendly materials, and designs are crafted under fair working conditions.
