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Let’s protect this planet and all the beautiful creatures it has, including each other! 

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Halstead sells SOME RECYCLED jewelry supplies. They offer a grant program to support up & coming independent jewelry artists looking to expand their business.

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Parker Legwear makes beautiful socks out of recycled material.

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Twice Sheared Sheep sells high-quality yarn salvaged from unwanted knitted and crocheted items. In the process, the yarn is reworked to restore its quality and sanitized. Their website also offers five free patterns, two of which are gorgeous shawls.

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Whimsie offers recycled, reclaimed and vintage metal crafting supplies. Reclaimed means that they would have been recycled, which would have used energy. That energy usage is unnecessary if you can find a use for these reclaimed metal scraps.

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Giving Back with Style: Insecta Shoes Turns Trash Into Fancy Footwear

To learn more about Barbara and her eco-friendly footwear company, follow @insectashoes on Instagram.

“I was pretty much always an entrepreneur. I wanted to give back to our planet, help people and work with a purpose,” explains Barbara Mattivy, the 31-year-old co-founder of Insecta Shoes (@insectashoes), a Brazilian small business that produces vegan eco-friendly footwear made out of vintage clothing and recycled plastic bottles. “I finally figured out I could combine my passions for fashion and the internet and still do good for the world.” Barbara’s advice to budding entrepreneurs is to follow your heart: “You’re one step ahead if you already know what your passion is. I see a lot of people nowadays wanting something different, but not sure of what it is. For those who already know, take advantage of this gift and think of ways to monetize it — usually it’s not that hard.” #LivingMyPassion

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Adorable & sexy lingerie made with RPET!

(via PORTO soft cup bra soft bralette in layered RPET recycled)

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Discover Sea2See Eyewear, made from 100% upcycled sea plastic. Get more information here

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Discover the Hamilton Perkins Collection: bags that are made out of 100% recycled plastic bottles. Get more information here

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What is ethical fashion???

What is ethical fashion you ask? Well, like anything that is ethical, it is fashion that is morally right and acceptable, it is pretty self explanatory really but I will explain in a little more detail what exactly makes fashion ethical and the issues behind it.

Ethical fashion; or as many associate it as, eco fashion, is the process of covering a range of issues. The term is used to describe issues that arise in the four sectors of fashion; design, production, retail and purchasing. 

The purpose of ethical fashion is to maximise benefits to people, communities and business and to minimise the impact on the environment.

What issues could possibly occur within this industry? 

The most popular issues that could arise are, the working conditions, fair trade, exploitation, animal welfare and the environment. The working conditions occur in the cheapest of fashion clothing stores, this means that in most cases, that super cheap item of clothing you bought from a low priced store is most likely made in a factory with extremely poor working conditions and unhealthy environments with the workers being on very low salaries; not that you would be aware of this when buying the product, and this is what ethical fashion is all about, working to prevent these aspects and also make people aware of the unknown.

Also, within the textile side of fashion also faces some issues in the sense that most textiles are usually treated with chemicals. This could be to either dye, wash or soften them but little do you and I know that the chemicals used to do this can sometimes to dangerous to the skin as the chemicals could be transferred to those wearing the clothes. The same goes for the environment as some of the chemicals used are toxic. 

What has been put in place to prevent the problems occurring in businesses and the industry on the whole?

There is a forum and criteria in which businesses within the fashion industry follow that consist of ten set points that if all are followed, will allow a business to full engage in ethics and sustainability. For example, the fashion industry has began both using and developing eco-friendly fabrics and various components with one of the most popular being fair trade and organic cotton. Organic cotton is grown without the use of chemicals which means that there is nothing possibly toxic within the use of it which makes a huge different to the usual cotton which is used massively in businesses and industry. Cotton is one of the most chemical-laden crops in the world so the fact that organic cotton is now being introduced is a massive positive for the fashion industry and its eco statics. 

Are there any eco-friendly high street Fashion brands that you may not have known were actually ethical?

For all of you online shopaholics out there, it may be interesting to know that ASOS have an eco friendly section of their website known as the ‘green room’ which hosts a wide range of clothing brands such as up cycled vintage. This is a way of recycling clothes which is of course great for the environment on the whole and everyone loves a good vintage garment, right??? It is a wardrobe must have! 

The high street store brand Fat Face is known for its eco friendly approach to clothing as it abides by a code of conduct that is to be followed by all suppliers and factories to ensure that all of their workers are treated fairly. 

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ETHICALLY YOURS “Celebrating the heroes leasing fashion’s conscious movement” - model: Varsha Thapa - photographer: Keegan Crasto - stylist: Daniel Franklin - hair & makeup: Tenzin Kyizom - Grazia India January 2017

URVASHI KAUR - Handloom kota dory tent dress wth kantha details & khaki lining - “Our core aesthetics revolves around trans-seasonal collections with versatile, multi-use separates. This philosophy fundamentally creates an aspect of reusability and longer wear for each individual piece.”

DOODLAGE - Upcyled mesh shirt with texture detail using scrap cord, upcyled mesh trousers with texture detail using scrap cord, finger knit scarf made using scrap strips - “Most of our garments made entirely out of upcyled fabric. Patchwork is a god way to utilize tiny scraps of fabrics and whatever katran remains, we ue that for surface design.”

RAJESH PRATAP SINGH - Cotton dress, hand woven cotton waistcoat, had woven cotton linen salwar trousers - “It is the process of manufacture that determines the virtue of the fabric. We try and innovate without damaging or disrupting nature as much as possible.”

AM:IT -  Handwoven recycled plastic baskets - “I employ rural women in and around Coimbatore to weave the bags. The idea was to empower them, along with creating sustainable and ethical fashion.”

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D.ISTINTO - FASHION ADVICE

ECOALF - This  brand is incredible, fashion can do everything.

The power of fashion that  wants to be sustainable.

https://www.instagram.com/ecoalf/

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This is so cool!

THIS ADIDAS 3D-PRINTED SNEAKER IS MADE FROM OCEAN WASTE

Adidas has teamed up with Parley for the Oceans — a movement aimed at eliminating the plastic waste that ends up in our seas — to create a new 3D-printed sneaker concept. The design consists of an upper made from “ocean plastic content” and a 3D-printed midsole made from recycled polyester and fishing nets.