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‘Don’t buy clothes! Stop all consumerism! Why not protect this gift of life while we have it? Maybe surprisingly, it was Vivienne Westwood saying this after presenting her last collec... |
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:29:19 -0800
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‘There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness’ (Mahatma Gandhi)
The great thing about working with students around the world who do research on ethica... |
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:42:52 -0800
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There was a time in my life that I was close to another man than M.A. We had a great relationship and lots of fun, but then I fell in love with eco fashion. What started as a hobby grew into a commu... |
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:41:44 -0800
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Canada is home to more than a handful of amazing eco designers and last week I got the chance to see some of their work. In Ottawa, designers Bridget and Christina found it challenging to find suita... |
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:20:37 -0800
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Attending trade shows throughout the year gives you some hints as to where we should be looking at when it comes to a more sensible fashion scene in the future. If I had to pick one personal highl... |
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:14:46 -0800
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Karl Weick already said it decades ago: organizations exist to keep people busy. Organizations have ‘borders’ which theoretically separates the entity from its environment and within ... |
Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800
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In 2003 I visited New York for the first time. Being overwhelmed by the magnificent energy of this city, I started a street research for hiphonest fashion. A handful of underground organic T-shirt... |
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:12:56 -0800
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The sun shines, the moon glows,
the tides rise, the rain falls
-and a new baby is welcomed to our spinning world.
(Debra Frasier)
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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:32:59 -0800
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Last weekend me and my friend Edwin Oudshoorn,
visited the ‘Elle Style Award’ 2010. I have to admit that the pre-party
was as exciting as the real sparkling event, because Edwin tran... |
Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:07:28 -0800
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Aesthetics are the essence of each brand in our eco fashion world. They embody an entrepreneur’s unique artistic identity and are mirrored in the artefacts she creates. For me, this was alwa... |
Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:24:08 -0800
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Two weeks ago, Strawberry Earth organized a unique event in Design Hotel V in Amsterdam: the Strawberry Earth Hotel Crash. I was happy to have the opportunity to have a quick peek in the themed r... |
Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:52:19 -0800
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A bare space with plastic tables and chairs. Large windows overlooking the parking lot. Elderly people bent over their burgers. A menu that doesn’t wet my appetite at all. But I promised M.A... |
Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:11:12 -0800
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'We had veggies, potato and Valess tonight, so we're really on the bio track now', my brother said the other day. Big question marks???? This to me sounded like the most ordinary Dutch dish you c... |
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:58:26 -0800
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I can't believe myself, but I just did it. I bought pyjamas. The one thing I had never thought I would buy. But I did it. They're lying on the table grinning at me. Like if they say 'Got-ya!'
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Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:40:35 -0800
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What do you do when you want to discover the one country that remains a blank spot on the world map? A country we only hear about when it comes to missile launches and captured journalists rescued... |
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:05:40 -0800
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'Viva la Boheme' is the slogan of ecofashion store iki-M that I visited just before Christmas. And that is definitely how I felt the whole week, travelling through winter wonder Germany and Austr... |
Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:06:04 -0800
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If ethical fashion is 'in fashion', then what happens when it's 'out of fashion'? Thorstein Veblen saw (1899) saw fashion as the way to promote conspicuous consumption and contrasted it to valuab... |
Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:03:15 -0800
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duty at a fashion event. ECOALF,
the new eco-brand under the umbrella of the Spanish company Fun&Basics made it possible la... |
Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:25:22 -0800
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Last week the Swiss people voted to ban the building of minarets which caused a huge uprise. My friends´response was to combine their Balkan party with some pro-Islam elements. The pre-part... |
Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:31:50 -0800
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Urbany, maturalism, (f)luxury, profile myning and embedded generosity: terminology that denotes some of the major trends for 2010. Whether you're an enthused entrepreneur, a rhapsodical researche... |
Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:14:02 -0800
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