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CreativeBug Workshop: Anna Maria Horner Makes Cross-Stitch Modern
Reinterpret traditional cross-stitch embroidery by creating this colorful and easy-to-make pendant. In this workshop, Anna Maria Horner walks us through the fundamentals of cross stitch, which results...
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Osklen’s Spring 2013 collection, ‘Endless Summer’ Suits California Dreamers
Whether you live in California, or just wish you did, Osklen’s latest collection is great fashion for every season. Oh, what to wear? It’s all so confusing. Fashion’s current focus is spring next...
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World Skin Color Scarves: Turning Data Into Fashion
Designer Reineke Otten rethinks dry data into silk scarves beautifully printed with graphics and colors. Fashion and fact and figures usually involve the number of runway presentations per season, or...
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Vivienne Westwood Says Don’t Buy Clothes
Outspoken fashion designer Vivienne Westwood details her plan for Climate Revolution writing, “The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the...
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Now & Then: The History of Fashion Media
They’re hard to resist, but have modern-day fashion magazines lost their link to art and become too focused on celebrity culture? French women as early as 1700 pored over magazines – then sketches of...
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CreativeBug Workshop: Finger Knitting with Amelia Strader
Requiring nothing more than a skein of yarn – this project might be the ultimate in low-tech crafting. In this workshop Amelia Strader shows us how to finger knit chains of yarn that can be turned...
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EcoSalon’s Top 10 Favorite Online Vintage Stores
Get inspired by a world’s worth of vintage clothing without leaving your home. How did Sophia Amoruso, founder and CEO of international fashion website, Nasty Gal, grow her vintage clothing store on...
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Now & Then: The History of the Zipper
Unzipping the floodgates: From a closure to decorative fashion statement, the zipper changed the course of fashion history. Shown here, Balmain’s SS 2010 zipper jacket. Instantly recognizable by their...
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CreativeBug Workshop: Make a Macrame Plant Holder with Cathy Callahan
Take a new look at macramé with Cathy Callahan’s easy-to-follow tutorial. I know, when you think of macramé you think of cheesy 70s dens, but the knotted handicraft has come a long way since then....
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Beauty Will Save the World: Sustainability’s Top Makers on What Compels Them...
EcoSalon’s favorite fashion designers, jewelry makers and artisans on the nature of creativity. “Beauty will save the world,” remarked Dostoevsky in the 19th century. If ever there was a time to...
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