For over 20 years, the Freitag name has been synonymous with quality, craftsmanship, and individuality. Born out of a single product made from repurposed truck tarpaulin, the Swiss company was founded in 1993 by brothers Markus and Daniel Freitag with the intention of creating the perfect waterproof messenger...
Lambswool, merino, and cashmere sweaters may be all that stand between you and frostbite (or at least a colossal heating bill), but they're not the most low-maintenance of fibers. Unlike their acrylic and polyester brethren, which can look shabby after a few washes, however, a quality woolen can help you weather...
The following is an excerpt from Wear No Evil: How to Change the World With Your Wardrobe by Greta Eagan Cleaning out your closet is so wonderfully cathartic, and many Feng Shui masters will tell you that creating organized spaces helps to open up the flow of energy and allow for new things to come into your...
Americans are drowning in more unnecessary "stuff" than ever before, and it's literally making us sick. So concludes Buried: The State of Stress and Stuff, a new study published on Monday that casts a gimlet eye at a nation caught in a state of chronic clutter and the unnecessary anxiety it provokes. Nothing in...
After Slate lauded American Giant for creating the "greatest hoodie ever made," sales of the 100 percent cotton-fleece sweatshirt exploded. With a waitlist that stretched, at times, for months, the humble garment drew innumerable compliments for its quality, resilience, and fit. (One customer even described it...
Ma Earth is paying through its nose for the clothing we produce, according to a study that quantifies, for the first time, the price we exact from the ecosystem for our clothing. Case in point? Factoring in the use of water, fertilizer, and energy along the entire supply chain, a single cotton T-shirt can cost...
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Seasons come, seasons go, and with them, the trends du jour. It's an unrelenting cycle, one that at least one emerging brand wants to opt out of. Meet One by One, a minimalist’s dream come true. Based in Los Angeles, One by One thumbs its nose at the traditional fashion calendar by releasing its timeless staples...
Seasons come, seasons go, and with them, the trends du jour. It's an unrelenting cycle, one that at least one emerging brand wants to opt out...
Most people can appreciate the story behind an upcycled dress or a pair of fair-trade sneakers, but that doesn't mean they're willing to pay extra for it. They will, however, loosen their pursestrings, for style, quality, availability and choice, and value for money, according to Verdict, a retail analysis firm...
Most people can appreciate the story behind an upcycled dress or a pair of fair-trade sneakers, but that doesn't mean they're willing to pay...
Roomful of clothes but nothing to wear? You're hardly alone. The average U.K. household owns an average of £4,000 worth of clothes, 30 percent of which languishes unworn, according to the Waste & Resources Action Programme. A third of the clothing we buy every year ends up in the landfill, sometimes after...
Roomful of clothes but nothing to wear? You're hardly alone. The average U.K. household owns an average of £4,000 worth of clothes, 30 percent...
Growing up on the Philadelphia Main Line, Samantha Leibowitz was surrounded by architecture, museums, and gardens. The arts continue to influence her today, particularly when she's creating her eponymous apparel line, which she launched a year ago in New York City. This September, Leibowitz made her New York Fashion...
Growing up on the Philadelphia Main Line, Samantha Leibowitz was surrounded by architecture, museums, and gardens. The arts continue to influence...
How did you and Morteza Saifi decide to found Panah? My husband has spent over 20 years in fashion industry in New York City. After Parsons School of Design, he freelanced for large corporations. Later in 2000, he launched his eponymous brand as an avant-garde designer and received notability for his designs...
How did you and Morteza Saifi decide to found Panah? My husband has spent over 20 years in fashion industry in New York City. After Parsons...
SECOND CHANCE Through a Kickstarter campaign, Carcel raised nearly $50,000 to finance new knitting machines for a women's prison in Cusco, where its debut collection is being produced. "In Peru, the number of women in prison has doubled the past 15 years," D'Souza said. "The majority are sentenced for drug-trafficking,...
SECOND CHANCE Through a Kickstarter campaign, Carcel raised nearly $50,000 to finance new knitting machines for a women's prison in Cusco, where...
Dear Ecouterre readers, We want to thank you for sharing this journey with us for the past eight years. Ecouterre.com broke ground in 2009 as the world's first website dedicated to ethical and environmentally sustainable fashion. We helped to start the conversation about "eco fashion" when that term was fairly...
Dear Ecouterre readers, We want to thank you for sharing this journey with us for the past eight years. Ecouterre.com broke ground in 2009...
The following is a guest post from Redress. Redress is known for being bold and brave; and now we’ve proved this true again! We’re now calling out for the world’s best sustainable fashion designers to compete in the just-opened 2017 EcoChic Design Award cycle. And—drumroll please±we’ve lifted the...
The following is a guest post from Redress. Redress is known for being bold and brave; and now we’ve proved this true again! We’re now...
What was inside the blue Tiffany box that Melania Trump handed Michelle Obama on Inauguration Day? The world may never know. Less of a mystery is Pamela Anderson's would-be gift to the current First Lady: a Russian faux fur. “I’m going to send her one of my Russian eco-fur coats as a gift because I’m designing...
What was inside the blue Tiffany box that Melania Trump handed Michelle Obama on Inauguration Day? The world may never know. Less of a mystery...
ECO-FASHION ORACLES Marie-Claire Daveu (Kering) Simone Cipriani (Ethical Fashion Initiative) Livia Firth (Eco-Age, Green Carpet Challenge) Kirsten Brodde (Greenpeace) Judy Gearhart (International Labor Rights Forum) Scott Nova (Worker Rights Consortium) Christina Sewell (People...
ECO-FASHION ORACLES Marie-Claire Daveu (Kering) Simone Cipriani (Ethical Fashion Initiative) Livia Firth (Eco-Age, Green Carpet...
It's time to face the awful truth: Those cheap clothes we can't get enough are probably the handiwork of impoverished children from Bangladesh, some as young as 6. About a third of the children who live in the slums of the capital of Dhaka spend an average of 64 hours a week making clothing for the world's leading...
It's time to face the awful truth: Those cheap clothes we can't get enough are probably the handiwork of impoverished children from Bangladesh,...
THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE Bettoni's audience included several finalists from the CFDA + Lexus Fashion Initiative, among them Erin Isakov of Erin Snow, Britt Cosgrove and Marina Polo of apparel label Svilu, Christopher Kunz from Nicholas K, and Nepalese-American designer Prabal Gurung. She stood ready with...
THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE Bettoni's audience included several finalists from the CFDA + Lexus Fashion Initiative, among them Erin Isakov of...
More than 40 million people work in the global garment industry, yet their stories rarely make the headlines. We'll tut-tut about the factory fires, the building collapses, the fainting epidemics, and the deaths we hear about, of course. But the punishingly long days, the unrelenting labor, and the countless indignities...
More than 40 million people work in the global garment industry, yet their stories rarely make the headlines. We'll tut-tut about the factory...
Ethical fashion. Green fashion. Sustainable fashion. Eco-fashion. Isn't all just clothes? Well yes...and no. Confused? Take a deep, cleansing breath. We've dusted off some of our favorite posts from the Ecouterre archives to bring you up to speed on the social and environmental scourge that is "fast fashion,"...
Ethical fashion. Green fashion. Sustainable fashion. Eco-fashion. Isn't all just clothes? Well yes...and no. Confused? Take a deep, cleansing...
Contrary to what Gwyneth Paltrow might have you think, you don't need a bank account the size of Gringotts to be a conscious consumer. When it comes to cultivating a more mindful closet, less, as they say, is more. Don't believe us? Check with the experts. Here's the best advice we've heard from some of the people...
Contrary to what Gwyneth Paltrow might have you think, you don't need a bank account the size of Gringotts to be a conscious consumer. When it...
Faced with a world of increasing outdoor air pollution, designer Nikolas Gregory Bentel decided to help fellow city dwellers monitor their own environments. Bentel has recently released a new line of pollution-detecting shirts, Aerochromics, which fluctuate in color when exposed to various pollution levels in...
Faced with a world of increasing outdoor air pollution, designer Nikolas Gregory Bentel decided to help fellow city dwellers monitor their own...
China has pledged to shut down all trade in ivory by the end of 2017, a move that conservationists are hailing as a "game changer" for elephant conservation. The decision comes on the heels of years of mounting global pressure to stem the mass killings and threatened extinction of African elephants. (Poaching...
China has pledged to shut down all trade in ivory by the end of 2017, a move that conservationists are hailing as a "game changer" for elephant...
Our readership has spoken! Here are the past year's most creative, game-changing, cutting-edge, and mind-boggling stories of the year, as chosen by you.
Our readership has spoken! Here are the past year's most creative, game-changing, cutting-edge, and mind-boggling stories of the year, as chosen...
