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Innovation Baby
Fabric Out of Milk, Tea, and Coffee Beans!
German microbiology-student-turned-designer Anke Domaske uses milk to make a an "Eco Milk Fiber" called QMilch. High-tech sports clothing company Virus uses recycled coffee beans for their Stay Warm line of cold-weather performance apparel. And the genius Suzanne Lee, fashion designer and TED Senior Fellow, has been making fabric and vegetable leather out of fermented tea, kombucha.
Check out her video
here
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Fashion Scoop
We love it when big brands that matter go green! Way to go Gucci! Keep moving the trend of sustainability and ethics into the norm. Oftentimes people in the industry say, "It's fashion, we're not curing cancer", but it may be quite the contrary as fashion designers take part in ridding the world of toxic apparel production processes that harm us all.
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Art on View
The Earth Room
in Soho is an
art installation of a
22-inch-deep layer of dirt spread across 3600 sqare feet by
Walter De Maria's
. Since 1977, the loft at 141 Wooster Street has been home to this 280,000 pounds of NYC soil.
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Tip of the Week
Buy locally if you can. 98 percent of all clothing purchased in the United States is imported from abroad. Buying clothes that are made in the USA strengthens the American economy, upholds labor standards, and benefits the environment. See here for NYC resources.
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