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Fashion
07.28.11: Laura Weiss
What We Can Learn from Project RunwayAs 'Project Runway' launches its 9th season, a designer muses on what she's learned.
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06.27.11: William Underhill
ComradettesNew women's fashion collection celebrating history of labor
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05.16.11: An Xiao Mina
The Ultra 10 ChallengeReport on ULTRA, a sustainable fashion company founded in Kuala Lumpur.
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03.08.11: Julie Lasky
Design Indaba 2011Review of Design Indaba 2011 conference in Cape Town, South Africa
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09.15.10: Dana Thomas
132 5. ISSEY MIYAKEThe latest material (and sustainability) adventure from the great Japanese fashion designer.
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02.17.10: Jessica Helfand
Better Living Through ArtistrySEWA, a cooperative textile manufacturing company in Ahmedebad, India, is a network of self-employed women.
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02.03.10: Ernest Beck
The Cotton ClubReport on the complex, and sometimes muddled, standards for certifying organic cotton.
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12.14.09: Eve M. Kahn
Green SleevesReview of “Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion” at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, November 20, 2009 - February 20, 2010.
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09.28.09: Jane Margolies
SkinReport on maternity clothes made in Colombia with local labor. (No seamstresses under the age of 50 need apply.)
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08.20.09: Ernest Beck
PACT UnderwearReport on PACT, an underwear company that embraces green manufacturing and donates a portion of its revenue to nonprofits.
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