18 Organic and Sustainable Underwear Brands You’ll Be Comfy & Confident In
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by Conscious Life & Style Team
4M ago
Organic and sustainable underwear is a growing demand as the concern is rising about the impact of harmful dyes and synthetic fabrics on our skin. Thankfully, there are quite a few sustainable underwear brands in the marketplace that are providing more ecological options for conscious consumers looking for underwear they can feel confident choosing for themselves and their families. What fabrics should we look for in a sustainable underwear brand? Look for materials like organic cotton — preferably GOTS-certified cotton as this is the highest standard for organic fibers — hemp, or Tencel, whic ..read more
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15 Eco-Friendly Yarns and Materials to Help You Craft Your Own Clothes
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by Jharna Pariani
6M ago
Whether you’re a beginner, pro, or hobbyist, we found 15 brands that offer a wide selection of sustainable yarns and eco-friendly fabrics to help you level up those sewing projects. The act of crafting shed its cutesy, 1950s, grandmacore image a long time ago. It even began trending during the pandemic when nearly everyone we knew took up a project at home.  Former first lady, Michelle Obama admittedly knitted a blanket, five scarves, three halter tops, a couple of hats, and a pair of mittens during quarantine. The following year, knitting made headlines at the most unlikeliest of setting ..read more
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10 Sustainable Workwear Brands with Eco-Minded Office Essentials
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by Elizabeth Joy
6M ago
Finding dress-code compliant workwear that you actually enjoy wearing is already a struggle. Add on top of that that it’s made from sustainable materials in an ethical, transparent factory or studio? You might be shopping around for weeks. That’s why I curated this collection of brands with ethical workwear, including structured button-ups and blazers, well-fitted trousers, silky blouses, pencil skirts, and sheath dresses—for any woman seeking office-appropriate pieces. (Note that some of the brands included in this guide are affiliates or partners. We may earn a commission if you choose to pu ..read more
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25 Best Sustainable Jackets & Coats to Keep You Toasty Warm
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by Jharna Pariani
7M ago
Snuggle up with the best sustainable coats that will shield you from autumn winds and winter’s deepest chills in great style for years to come. In prepping one’s cold-weather wardrobe, no item of clothing is more crucial than outerwear. Despite the utilitarian nature of jackets and coats, there is a wide range of options out there that provide warmth and are fun to take pictures in, not to mention sustainable too!  P.S. If you’re looking for some more gear to warm up with, check out this guide to ethical & eco boots and this guide to consciously-made sweaters! Note that this guide inc ..read more
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Fashion’s Overlooked Sustainability Policy Opportunities with Kenya Wiley
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by Elizabeth Joy
7M ago
Policy is an important lever in creating a better, more sustainable, and equitable fashion system. But if we only focus on policy that explicitly talks about the fashion industry and sustainability, we may be missing some opportunities.  In today’s episode, I’m chatting with fashion policy expert Kenya Wiley. Kenya is sharing behind the scenes on the processes behind legislation and regulation — and even explaining the difference between the two terms — and some of the current policies in the works that could involve fashion that the fashion industry isn’t talking about. These could be po ..read more
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Choosing Hope Over Climate Doomism with Isaias Hernandez (@QueerBrownVegan)
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by Stella Hertantyo
8M ago
When you think about the realities of the social and environmental crises caused by our extractive fashion system, do you ever feel overwhelmed by a wave of many overlapping emotions, especially when the media is filled with doom and gloom stories of the climate crisis?  Some days I feel despondent, and other days I feel deeply, joyfully connected to the world around me. Then some days I feel sorrow, and other days I feel endlessly hopeful.  Sometimes I feel alone in this complex mix of feelings. But what I have learned from following today’s guest, Isaias Hernandez — who is an inter ..read more
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Can Slow Fashion Businesses Scale Without Encouraging Overconsumption? With Mahdiyyah Muhammad
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by Stella Hertantyo
8M ago
How can we reimagine the traditional role of fashion designers in a world filled with fashion waste? And how can we rethink our primary role as consumers in a way that allows us to become contributors to collective wellbeing instead?  It’s no secret that we live in a world with far too much clothing. If we are to work towards a more sustainable fashion industry, we need to unpack the ways that fashion brands and designers can pivot away from the mainstream business model of take-make-waste and embrace alternative sustainable fashion business models that limit waste. And our mindset as con ..read more
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Is Carbon Offsetting Fashion’s Excuse To Emit?
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by Stella Hertantyo
8M ago
From record-breaking heat and extreme storms to unprecedented floods, wildfires, and droughts, it’s undeniable that we are living in the time of a climate crisis. Carbon dioxide is one of the main greenhouse gasses contributing to global warming and the worsening effects of the climate crisis. And the fashion industry has an outsized carbon footprint. So there is a good reason why carbon emissions have become the center of many sustainable fashion conversations. What the fashion industry desperately needs is to develop effective, and scientifically verifiable, pathways to decarbonization. In o ..read more
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From Extractive to Regenerative Fashion: Slow Growth, Climate Beneficial Fibers, and Cooperative Models with Laura Sansone of New York Textile Lab
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by Stella Hertantyo
9M ago
What if designers could go all the way back to the source of the fibers their garments are made from? Many of fashion’s favorite fibers — and our favorite garments — begin on farms. From cotton to wool, hemp, and linen. But, often, designers are so far removed from the places where these fibers are produced. Bringing designers back to the source would result in greater transparency and traceability in fashion that would allow designers to make choices that are kinder to people and the planet. The fast fashion system thrives on building one, uniform, global fashion system that requires a lack o ..read more
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Rethinking Traditional Supply Chains with Ria Ana Sejpal of LilaBare
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by Stella Hertantyo
9M ago
What is the process like to create a regenerative conscious fashion label? What does it mean to create long-term partnerships in a localized supply chain that are beneficial for people? Or to make clothes that are beneficial for the earth? In this episode, Stella interviews the founder of slow fashion brand LilaBare, Ria Ana Sejpal, about building a Kenyan fashion brand, rethinking traditional supply chains, and the value of building long-term relationships with the people involved in them. Plus they cover how Ria measures the impacts of the garments LilaBare creates and how size-adjustab ..read more
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