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Haute Couture is a French phrase for high fashion. Couture means dressmaking, sewing, or needlework and haute means elegant or high, so the two combined imply excellent artistry with the fashioning of garments. Dependant on the design house and the garment, the cost of an item can runs from about USD10,000 for a simple blouse to more than USD40,000 and often beyond that figure making it an impossible proposition for most fashion aware people.
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Imagine browsing at your leisure through an extensive international fashion wardrobe and choosing exactly what you want. Swapping clothes is a huge step towards sustainable living. By sharing what we already have, we are cutting down our consumption massively and reduce our carbon footprint.
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In a society obsessed with instant gratification, novelty, and conspicuous consumption, it’s easy to dismiss fashion design as frivolous. Skirt lengths and platform heights appear inconsequential when juxtaposed with real-world concerns like climate change, economic strife, water shortages, and hunger and malnutrition. But if you consider the fact that clothing is something in which we envelope our bodies every single day — and which uses a ton of natural resources to produce — to ignore the apparel industry’s environmental and social impact would be negligent, not to mention foolhardy.
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Clothes rental services have been around for some time now, often focusing on the short-term needs of those preparing for special occasions. Now, a new Singapore company is setting its sights squarely on fashionistas and others who would rather not wear the same outfit twice. You can save tons of money, curb spending on clothes while maintaining a glamorous lifestyle with an infinite amount of clothes to wear. Avoid consumerism and the millions of excess clothes dumped in landfills.
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Jeans are America's most used piece of clothing. Some people wear them until they'e truly unwearable. The more faded and more holes, the more they loves them. But there comes a time when these items just become unwearable. Denim is a prime fabric for recycling and there are many creative ways to recycle blue or any color jeans, make everything from backpacks to book covers.
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If you can get great stuff, save money, and reduce your footprint with rental. Why buy? You're familiar with renting cars, homes, and movies. Why stop there? Imagine if you could rent anything to do with consumer and luxury goods - from Ferraris to Halloween costumes to fashion items to party equipment to tuxedos and beyond - all through one online venue.
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Worn Again is a social business which was set up not only to transform consumption and manufacturing patterns through production of goods made from recycled materials, in an effort to reuse the millions of tons of textiles are thrown away every year around the world. It has been giving a new lease of life to old materials, such as car seat belts, prison blankets, bicycle tires, parachutes, firemen’s uniforms, and more.
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When it comes to purchasing in the high fashion marketplace, you have the power to make a difference. Increasingly, it’s up to us as consumers to put our money into companies that will create the shift in the market for our environment and long-term health. But what makes a garment “eco-friendly”? It means using fewer chemicals in the production of clothes. Eco-friendly companies usually care about other things, too: fair-trade labor (labor without sweatshops), sustainable goods (products made locally in order to use less fuel), animal cruelty (no leather or fur) and recycling (reusing materials or making new materials out of things like plastic bottles).
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Being a fashionable and yet environmentally responsible woman can be more than challenging at times. This is especially so when dealing with quests for cute specialty clothing... like bikinis. Luckily for all of us, though, eco bikinis are getting easier to find each day and they're becoming hotter every season.
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What do you do with used hubcaps (aka Wheel Covers)? Some of us might hang them on walls or use them to serve food, but English artist Ptolemy Elrington has created sculptures with them for six years. Originally, he set out to fashion a suit of armor, but got sidetracked making marine and creatures. As you can imagine, these pieces are large: Sizes are mostly 1'-6', but may range from 6" for a shark and 25 feet for a dragon. This is probably one of the coolest recycling art styles I’ve seen in a long time.
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