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Borrow a designer dress
Ready to be lended. Earlier I have written about how people have started to swap things with each other instead of buying everything new. But this weekend Stockholm experienced another phenomenon in...
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Leaving the grave out
Mathilda Wendelboe's Cradle to Cradle collection. Photo: Tina Axelsson. When discussing sustainability the term “lifecycle analysis” sometimes comes up. The idea is that it’s important to figure out a...
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Responsible fashion with funny names
Righteous Fashion. “Sustainability” can mean a lot of things. In ecology the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time, but social sustainability is another...
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A Swedish fashion company trying to show it all
One of Lager 157's stores. Photo: Stefan Palm. In the latest issue from my journalist colleagues at the magazine Camino I read about the outlet company Lager 157. I used to know it as a place not that...
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Would you recycle your clothes for money?
Photo: Ola Lindberg/Flickr. In Sweden we’ve for a long time had a system of getting money back on returned aluminum cans, glass and plastic bottles. Returning your empty cans and bottles has become a...
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Guerilla clothes swapping in the heart of Stockholm
Saturday happened to be the “Environmentally friendly day”, and all over Sweden the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation organised clothes swap events to highlight the environmental impacts of...
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Don’t buy that dress – borrow it
A clothes library can give new life to clothes that might be old to someone else. Hanna Nyberg is one of the founders of Stockholm's first permanent clothes library. Photo: Sara Jeswani. Most of us...
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Is Scandinavia fashion’s eco-Mecca?
From Johanna Hofring’s “organic and sweatshopfree collection”. Photo: www.johannahofring.com. Just in time for the Stockholm Fashion Week last week, the British online magazine the Ecologist...
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Shoes with a cause
Shoes with five visits at the shoe repairer included in the price. Note the punch ticket under the shoe. Photo: People People. In a world where very few things are made to last, I was happy to read...
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