The last two decades have seen rapid progress in relation to animal testing on consumer products and ingredients. Most consumers are more aware of its unreliability and increasing irrelevance, and know what suffering it causes. Alternative testing methods are being developed and adopted and customers are demanding cruelty-free cosmetics in particular. The EU, India and … Continue reading Could China open the doors to a global cruelty-free cosmetics market?
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Is there a cashmere sweater among your Christmas gifts ?
If there was a cashmere sweater among your Christmas gifts, you may now be enjoying its tactile warmth, or perhaps wondering at what cost this luxurious garment was produced. Strong, light, and incredibly soft, quality cashmere is a downy underfleece grown by a specific breed of goat for extra insulation in winter. Known in China … Continue reading Is there a cashmere sweater among your Christmas gifts ?
Encapsulating sustainable fashion: Singlestream
Two successful North American eco clothing designers, Kathryn Hilderbrand and Aiste Zitnikaite, recently chose to combine their distinct aesthetics and spark each other's creativity by collaborating on a small capsule collection to highlight a shared agenda. Hilderbrand, as GreenLinebyK of Massachusetts, started selling her womenswear and kidswear in 2010, handmade from all natural, organic and … Continue reading Encapsulating sustainable fashion: Singlestream
Walk tall for the planet
You don't have to dress like an eco-warrior to support sustainable fashion. While some of us choose rustic or boho styles that advertise our green outlook, there are many fashionistas who simply want to remain au courant without contributing to environmental disaster. If you're a city slicker, you may not have considered cork shoes, but … Continue reading Walk tall for the planet
Re-use, recycle, re-imagine – the insouciantly green Ed Marler
Being green and sustainable without trying is truly the new cool, especially in fashion. Among the new blood in evidence at London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015, the catwalk debut of Fashion East's Ed Marler at the ready-to-wear Topshop Showspace turned plenty of heads, with opulent, cultish, designs Dazed described as "club kids turned vampires, clad … Continue reading Re-use, recycle, re-imagine – the insouciantly green Ed Marler
Can we do better than vegan leather?
You may love classic leather biker or flying jackets, rock chick leather trousers or luxury handbags. But if veganism is part of your way of loving the planet, you probably don't choose animal hides. Yet it turns out the vegan alternatives some of us have relied on for decades are eco-disasters. Most faux leathers are … Continue reading Can we do better than vegan leather?
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