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Documenting sustainable fashion projects, artists, and organizations through photography.*
📍NYC-based.
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There you go, Coco!! 🏆
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People are insane.
🟣 “The low point — and this was a low point — came in 2017 at a trade show in Chicago,” he said. “A suit manufacturer looked at me and said: ‘Jacob, you know what we need from you? We need an Italian-designed cloth offered at a Chinese price point, but made in America.”
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Good to know. But as you say, not optimistic that that will be the method employed — data collection on users always seems to be the goal.
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“For years, New York has been tilting toward being a homegrown Dubai: a status playground for the rich steadily pushing out enclaves where the struggling working class tries to scrap by, with Instagram spots for tourists in between.”
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Maybe we need redemption from this, although his is certainly not the campaign to deliver it…
From the article:
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🟣 “I think there’s a certain exhaustion with modern-day fashion trends and the need to conform to unrealistic and constantly changing standards… to constantly try to fit into what the internet thinks is ‘cool’ this week.”
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🟣 “Products like Doji let users create AI avatars using full-body photos and facial scans. A personalized LoRA model is then trained to serve as your digital twin, allowing you to “try-on” clothing with a click.” ⬇️
a16z.com/ai-shopping-...
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🟣 Andreessen Horowitz backs AI products that would require users to submit to full body and facial scans for the purposes of “trying on clothes” — without regulation, for what other purposes would they be able to use these digital clones…
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🟣 Under Mr. Anderson’s leadership at Loewe over 11 years, it appears that the only real sustainability initiatives implemented were bringing more visibility to repair services offered in the stores and creating a few limited edition handbags that used surplus leather… www.forbes.com/sites/claral...
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🟣 It’s unfortunate that a design chief appointed to one of the world’s leading fashion brands in 2025 has such limited experience in implementing sustainability at the production level of any brand and has no real vision to do so:
fashionunited.uk/news/fashion...
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🟣 “The shift comes after a rough stretch of customer frustration and diminishing returns. While AI may be efficient, it turns out it’s not great at handling nuance, empathy, or angry customers yelling about missed payments.”
Huh.
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🟣 “The campaign, called “Meet You In The Park”, highlights the importance of safe spaces for queer people, with designs inspired by classic LGBTQ+ liberation iconography.”
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Can this please be an annual event?
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🟣 Hyperspectral imaging “classifies materials based on their unique spectral signature. Unlike conventional imaging systems, hyperspectral cameras capture hundreds of spectral bands, making visible what can´t be seen with the human eye or color cameras.” ⬇️
recyclinginside.com/recycling-te...
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🟣 “The company has developed a sophisticated AI system utilizing hyperspectral imaging that can precisely determine fabric composition, enabling more efficient recycling processes and potentially transforming textile waste into viable new materials.”
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🟣 “With New Bedford having the textile history that it does, it seems fitting that we hold an event like this. This is a story of revival and resilience. It’s an echo of the industrial past, but reimagined into something more mindful.” 👏
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🟣 Owning versatile and comfortable multipurpose clothes is a good strategy for your closet as well to minimize feeling like you never have anything to wear and always need to pick up something new.
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🟣 Cheers to all the works in progress everywhere. 🪡
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🟣 "Allegations that Shein’s products contain cotton from China’s Xinjiang region and a planned legal challenge to the London IPO by a non-governmental organisation campaigning against forced labour in China have complicated the London listing and risk embarrassment for the Chinese government..."
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🟣 "The FTC’s case laid bare what the plaintiffs claim is the behind-the-scenes rationale for the merger: reducing discounting, raising prices, and eliminating competition."
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Have the same feeling when it comes to sharing my own work and photography. Hopefully it gets easier the more you share things.
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Love your results with Swiss darning! Also came across this butterfly style mend from a while back, which is definitely worth snagging a sweater for. 🦋
🟣 www.collingwoodnorrisdesign.com/knitwearblog...
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🟣 They always say the hardest part is getting started, but finishing a project can be just as difficult! It looks great finished. ✨
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🟣 Those clothing swaps will help:
www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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🟣 “Or might there be other, more socially generative uses for places like the ruined malls and arcades of central Newcastle – one that benefits the public at large rather than just a tiny elite of owners and speculators?”
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🟣 This article is a great contribution to the history of shopping centers, department stores, and the options to replace what once were valued public spaces and third places:
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Typical banana agriculture has taken its toll on the rainforest:
🟣 foodispower.org/our-food-cho...
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Hope this part has been verified:
🟣 “Bananatex® is cultivated within agroforestry environments and does not require the use of agricultural land. It grows without the need for chemicals, fertilisers, or any water beyond rainfall… the plant plays a valuable role in permaculture reforestation…”
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Not too early, too useless.
Blockchain technology could actually serve a critical function in the traceability of a garment’s supply chain and material sources instead of as a gimmick for meaningless digital collectibles.
🟣 www.frontiersin.org/journals/blo...
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Ahh, good idea. Will do the same. Thanks!
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Any chance you have a gift link on this one? Would love to read it.
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🟣 Very true, these things did not happen overnight.
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Change appears more likely if governments are willing to intervene in the market and not rely on the market to voluntarily move in a more responsible direction — based on past precedent.
The big companies with the most negative impacts are more accountable to their shareholders than to the planet.
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It’s a hopeful sentiment, but it’s evident that societies and consumers are inherently price focused.
A number of NY-based brands and shops that implemented sustainable practices at great lengths went out of business because sustainability costs more to implement.
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🟣 be.fashionnetwork.com/en-be/news/E...
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This all seems a little confusing but even if the French version is the better scoring method, it still will ultimately be voluntarily:
🟣 “Brussels’ expected validation of the French score would open the door for voluntary environmental labeling by brands as early as the second half of the year.”
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🟣 Yes, the textile encyclopedia is pretty great!
fashionary.org/products/tex...
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An interesting article about how hemp has been held back as a textile fiber over the years in comparison to cotton.
🟣 “For hemp to reach its full potential, marijuana still needs to be decriminalized.”
time.com/6268420/hemp...
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Lower business operating costs + cancer for all.
Looks like Congress is already getting started on that “abundance” agenda.
@ezraklein.bsky.social
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🟣 Circ’s chemical process separates polyester and cotton in polycotton blends to help facilitate fiber-to-fiber recycling.
Fibers all have a different recycling method; that’s part of the challenge, as clothing materials are frequently blended for various functions.
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🟣 “The blend of incentives, regulatory environment, affordable clean energy, manufacturing experience and talent within the workforce were all important in Circ’s decision to locate this facility in France over sites in other regions.”
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🟣 Looking forward to seeing this at MoMA.
There have been so many great fiber exhibits in the city of late. Just saw this in Chelsea last weekend:
hyperallergic.com/1014287/kenn...
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🟣 Couldn’t agree more. Just rewatched it too.
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🟣 “Among other things, Dior has agreed to contribute €2 million ($2.3 million) over the next five years to help identify and support victims of labour exploitation.”
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🟣 Hate this timeline.
bsky.app/profile/busi...
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🟣 “The glasses will reportedly have built-in cameras, microphones, and speakers so they can “analyze the external world and take requests via the Siri voice assistant.”
The future is bleak. Privacy will be nonexistent.
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🟣 This is an excellent guide that should be replicated for every community.
Tangible, local actions are a great remedy for disillusionment, loneliness, hopelessness, etc.
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🟣 Creating a one-time use garment — likely made from virgin materials, even more likely dyed with petrochemical-based dyes — is an odd effort to hold polluters accountable.
Reusing existing textiles and seeking transparency around clothing material ingredients is a better path to accountability.
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Cotton — such a good fiber, such a damaging legacy…
🟣 “During the 1921 season, U.S. cotton planters lost a third of their harvest to cotton boll weevil… With damages amounting to over $600 million, more planters turned to arsenic for help…”
revista.drclas.harvard.edu/slow-release...
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🟣 “We want to make sure sound science is the basis of these conclusions,” Grassley said.”
Now they care about science.
🟣 “Kennedy’s report is expected to target pesticides as one of the many reasons for Americans’ soaring rates of chronic disease…”