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This is part 3 in a blog series exploring our wardrobe and our lifestyle: who makes our clothes, where our clothes come from, and why a struggle for quality over convenience might just change our outlook on life and the world around us. Read part 1 and 2. Photo credit: James Greenfield via Flickr. It’s easy […]
August 17, 2012
This is part 1 in a blog series exploring our wardrobe and our lifestyle: who makes our clothes, where our clothes come from, and why a struggle for quality over convenience might just change our outlook on life and the world around us. Disposable op art dress, left. Disposable beach cover-up, right. Both pictured in Life […]
November 5, 2011
Just a bunch of passionate young people, videographers, musicians, artists, you name it, working on some crazy cool stuff to help out a war-torn nation Invisible Children, along with the help of local community leaders in D.R. Congo, is building an Early Warning Radio Network to broadcast information about the LRA’s movement and warn of possible […]
September 21, 2011
Allison Joyce shares her take on the global fashion scene after documenting multiple factories in Bangladesh where workers sandblast denim for designer labels. If you’ve followed the Killer Jeans campaign against sandblasting at all, you’ve probably run into a few striking photographs from a small plant in southern Bangladesh taken by New York based photojournalist, Allison Joyce. The photos […]
September 5, 2011
I’m as guilty as any when it comes to the occasional quick fix of clothing and accessories on the big box retail scene. But, I’m also fed up with buying things that have to be put to rest 12 months (if I’m lucky) down the road! Consequently, I’m convinced that there’s a better way to replenish […]
August 11, 2011
This post is a continuation of Farm to Fashion, Part 1, which touched on the importance of organic cotton cultivation in the fashion industry and introduced a new model of farming developed by husband-and-wife duo, Mani and Vijayalakshmi (below). Their company Appachi Cotton and brand Ethicus are forerunners for ethical fashion in India. This trail blazing team […]
July 30, 2011
Conventional agriculture has met its match in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu, a location that caught my attention after traveling there in 2004. Mani Chinnaswamy, a third generation farmer, and wife Vijayalakshmi, have started an organic process of contract farming that brings together the seed producer, farmer, ginner, spinning industry, artisan, and finally, the […]
June 21, 2011
Street artist, Shepard Fairey creates works that are graphic, thought provoking, and telling of cultural figures and issues within our contemporary culture. With his 2008 Obama “Hope” print likely still fresh on the brain for many, I wanted to shed light on a few of his newer works that I thought were inspiring. The following prints […]
June 18, 2011
It’s a location where access to foreigners is strictly prohibited and child labor is kept silent by government officials. Prized blood red rubies are mined here in the Mogok region of Burma, a place where 90% of the world’s rubies originate. Below is an exclusive video discreetly filmed by Al Jazeera. The mining of gems has both […]
May 8, 2011
When Sean Carasso started out on a backpacking excursion, he had no intention of ending up in the Democratic Republic of Congo personally confronted with the tragedy of war. He discovered a military encampment where former child soldiers were being beaten and young boys, too small to hold a gun, were being sent to the […]
August 31, 2012
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