As much as I love new fashion (as in: all of the incredible looks that just came out of New York Fashion Week), there’s something particularly satisfying about recycled fashion. Every year, 12.8 ...
Timo Rissanen is a founding board member of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion. Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than ...
It's natural to part with pieces of your wardrobe as your tastes and circumstances evolve. Even the most conscious shoppers do. But what really can make the difference is what you do with the clothes ...
Fashion's favorite green strategy-recycled polyester-might actually be worsening microplastics pollution, Changing Markets ...
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Every Saturday Veronica Howard sets up her booth at the Falls Church Farmers Market. There she sells art made from recycled clothing. Howard said this all started when she didn't ...
The towers of old clothes reach almost to the ceiling of the 200,000-square-foot hall. Forklifts rumble across the concrete floor, squeezing between the stacked bales of jeans, jackets, sweaters, and ...
A growing influx of cheap clothing is being donated overseas, marketed as something useful for the planet. But the reality is ...