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Make and Mend: New Book on Japanese-Inspired Mending Techniques
Brooklyn artist and mender Jessica Marquez has released Make and Mend, an exquisite, full-color guide to sashiko, a simple Japanese stitching technique that uses stunning patterns to decorate or...
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Op-Ed: America Leads the World in Textile Waste and Unwanted Clothing, Here’s...
EAmericans rarely think about clothing waste because, really, what’s there to think about? It’s a crisis that’s entirely hidden from us. Our understanding of what happens to our fashion mistakes ends...
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H&M Is a Victim of the Fast Fashion System It Created [LA Times Op-Ed
Fast fashion giant H&M is struggling. Profits are in decline, and they’ve got $4.3 billion in unsold goods. While it might be tempting to project victory over fast fashion into the chain’s...
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No, The Fashion Industry Isn't the World's 2nd Largest Polluter
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash This week, The New York Times’ Vanessa Friedman wrote an important and damning article on one of conscious fashion’s most-circulated myths: That fashion is the 2nd most...
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TexWorld Panel Debates the Future of Sustainable Textiles
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, The Conscious Closet author Elizabeth L. Cline joined a rousing panel on sustainable textile innovation at TexworldUSA, the United States’s largest trade show for...
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Global week of solidarity with Bangladeshi garment workers [via KALW Radio]
On the KALW radio show Your Call, Elizabeth Cline joins in to discuss the weeklong solidarity campaign with garment workers in Bangladesh. Sarah Newell, of the International labor Rights Forum, was...
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DIY Tutorial: How to Make Your Own High Waist Cut-Off Shorts
Denim cut-offs are a summer staple and one of the easiest things to make yourself. Yet, I’ve tried on probably two dozen pairs this season in search of the perfect ready-made shorts. After coming up...
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AJ+ Investigates Fast Fashion's Dark Side and What We Can Do About It
AJ+ ingestivates fast fashion’s dark side. A new video expose by AJ+ exposes the dark side of fast fashion and delves into ways we can disrupt the fashion industry and change it for the better. The...
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ThredUP Features Elizabeth L. Cline for International Women's Day
For International’s Women’s Day, on March 6, resale website thredUP featured a group of women who celebrate Mother Earth and fashion by choosing used. The Conscious Closet author Elizabeth L. Cline was...
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Outside/In Podcast Explores New Approaches to Eliminating Textile Waste
Outside/In—a podcast about the natural world and how we use it—dedicated its most recent episode, “Pants on Fire,” to textile waste and innovative solutions to it. The Conscious Closet author...
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CBS News Investigates Fashion's Enormous Carbon Impact for Earth Day
Conspicuous consumption is out -- and circular fashion is in. No, the term doesn't refer to round patterns or silhouettes but to extending the lifecycle of well-made garments and recycling their...
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NBC Nightly News Fashion Pollution Segment Airs With "Overdressed" Author...
Elizabeth L. Cline on NBC Nightly News Consumers are purchasing more clothing with the rise of fast fashion, but they’re also throwing more out. Americans send four times more clothing to the landfill...
View ArticleCline Talks "Fast Fashion" on WNYC's Brian Lehrer
In light of the U.S. trade war with China, Elizabeth Cline was invited on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show for a 10 Minute Explainer on fast fashion. In the segment, she explains how the "fast fashion"...
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Elizabeth Cline Covers Marie Kondo and Clothing Waste for Slate
Clothing is the first category to be purged in each episode of Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, the hit Netflix show featuring the lifestyle expert. Kondo’s clients (and, in turn, millions of American...
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Pre-Order the The Conscious Closet (Out Aug. 20) Now!
I’m SO excited to officially announce the forthcoming release of my new book and its gorgeous cover! Called The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good, this...
View ArticleThe Conscious Closet Is a "Must-Read," Says Booklist
The first trade review is in for THE CONSCIOUS CLOSET, and it is *starred* by Booklist, an important trade magazine for reviewers, librarians, booksellers, and industry folk. Reviewer Barbara Jacobs...
View ArticleHow to Build a More Sustainable Wardrobe Without Spending a Dime
If you’d love to build a more sustainable wardrobe but worry it’ll break the bank, here’s a piece of very good news: You can cut the impact of your clothes without spending a dime. No really. A...
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Real Simple Names "The Conscious Closet" One of 2019's Best Books
Real Simple magazine has launched its definitive list of the best books of 2019. Every month, the editors of Real Simple read and vet dozens of books (tough job, but someone has to do it) to choose the...
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Bangladesh's Factories Are Safer and Greener Since Rana Plaza. But Are They...
Mostafiz Uddin and Elizabeth L. Cline This week marks the seventh anniversary of Rana Plaza, a 2013 factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed and injured thousands of garment workers and awakened a...
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Nothing Wasted Podcast: Undressing the Conscious Closet with Elizabeth Cline
In a recent episode of the podcast NothingWasted!, author Elizabeth L. Cline speaks about the textile-waste problem; innovations that are helping make fashion more sustainable; shifting attitudes of...
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