Humans love to dress their pets, and it has only become more apparent over the past few years. High fashion designers have created entirely separate lines for animals. On January 14 of every year, it is National Dress Up Your Pet Day – a day created by pet lifestyle expert Colleen Paige. There is…
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Allow us to clarify. There is no fashion sustainability certifications system, and that needs to change. After spending numerous hours completing research for the first couple of resources that Manic Metallic released on The Sustainability Wing (those resources can be found here and here), it is clear that there is no uniform standard for…
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The aim of this resource is to give our readers a glimpse into what some of the certifications are that brands can get in order to be considered “ethical” and/or “sustainable” in today’s fashion industry. In finding the 28 that we thought were the most pertinent for you to know about, we discovered feelings…
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Photo c/o Merino Country via Fashion Revolution Throughout this page, you will find a list of notable organizations that have been working to move the needle on sustainability in the fashion industry – in some cases, for decades. We’ve listed the year that each organization was founded, its home base, and its general mission.…
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Paris Fashion Week was officially over a few days ago and, as we have done with a couple of previous fashion weeks, we created short video reviews for select PFW shows. Each video is under 60 seconds long, allowing for more insight than our previous shorter ones. In each video, you will see our…
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Chag Purim Sameach! The above saying is the proper greeting for those celebrating Purim. It means “Happy Purim” in Hebrew. Purim – the Jewish holiday – is occurring as we speak, so we wanted to give our audience an idea of both what it is and what fashion has to do with it. Read…
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2 billion. 3 billion. 750 million. These are the numbers for viewership of three of the primary royal weddings of the past 50 years. The weddings, of course, are (in order of the above viewership) for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Charles & Diana, Princess…
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The official schedule for New York Fashion Week wrapped up yesterday, but the American Collections Calendar will carry on for some time (for more on what the American Collections Calendar is, click here). While there were designers that could have certainly done better work, there were many exciting collections – and we left NYFW…
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It seems like just yesterday that we were observing New York Fashion Week’s Spring/Summer 2021 collections. However, the fashion world is a hard and fast one, so the Fall/Winter 2021 shows are already upon us – having started yesterday. We are always eager to see the creative output of both the industry’s brightest talents…
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The Lunar New Year is fast approaching, with Lunar New Year’s Eve being tomorrow (February 11) and the Lunar New Year itself falling on Friday, February 12. Let’s have a look at what the Lunar New Year is, and what fashion is associated with it. What is the Lunar New Year? The start of…
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