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SoHo is known for cobblestone streets, luxury storefronts, and some of the biggest names in fashion, but beneath the designer flagships is a completely different shopping scene: one built around secondhand fashion, vintage finds, and pieces with a history. What makes SoHo’s resale scene unique is the range. In one afternoon, you can browse authenticated
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Halloween is still one of the best nights of the year. It’s also one of the most expensive. According to the National Retail Federation, a retail industry group, people plan to spend an average of $115 each on Halloween this year. Costumes are the biggest single expense at $4.4 billion, more than candy or decorations,
The Hidden Cost of Leather: What New Research Reveals About Fashion’s Favorite Material When we think about the environmental impact of animal agriculture, most conversations focus on what’s on our plates. But what about what’s hanging in our closets? Leather has long been marketed as a “natural,” durable, and even sustainable material. It is often
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Why Opera Santa Barbara Thinks Your Old Costume Isn’t Trash Every Halloween, millions of costumes are bought, worn once, and forgotten. A superhero suit, a princess dress, a vintage-inspired look, a character someone spent weeks creating. After one night of celebration, many end up shoved into the back of a closet or thrown away. But
Why Alpaca Fiber Could Be the Future of Sustainable Fashion When most people think about sustainable fashion, they usually think about what happens after a garment is made: recycled materials, ethical factories, secondhand shopping, or repairing old clothes. But true sustainability starts much earlier, with the source of the material itself. At Black Barn Alpacas,
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Levi’s has been making jeans since 1853, but today the company is selling something beyond denim: the idea that your clothes can have a longer life. Fashion has trained us to buy, wear, and replace. So it’s nice to see Levi’s and other major brands start teaching people to do the opposite. Through initiatives focused
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When we talk about sustainability, we usually talk about clothes. We talk about overproduction. Textile waste. Fast fashion. Microplastics. Greenwashing. And obviously, yes, all of that matters. But talking to Toban Nichols of Remainders Creative Reuse made me think about a different kind of waste too: the waste we barely even notice. Fabric scraps. Yarn.
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How filmmaker and animal rights activist Jamie Logan is challenging the way we think about fashion, sustainability and the impact behind our everyday choices When we talk about sustainable fashion, the conversation often starts with what we buy: shopping secondhand, investing in quality pieces, avoiding fast fashion and choosing more responsible materials. But for animal
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I love finding something weird that no one else has. But my conversation with Kirsten Junor, CEO of Reverse Garbage, made me realize there is a pretty important difference between reusing things and simply finding a more sustainable excuse to keep consuming them. Because yes, buying secondhand is generally better than buying new. But do
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Shopping secondhand is supposed to be the alternative to buying something new. But anyone who actually shops vintage knows the trade-off: it can take more work. You find a bag you love, but the label means nothing to you. A jacket looks designer, but you have no idea what year it’s from. You see the
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Shein posted a $99 million net loss last quarter. A year earlier, the same quarter brought in $395 million in profit. That’s the number making headlines. The obvious next question is where that spending went. Part of the loss is paperwork, not lost sales. Part of it is tariffs actually cutting into Shein’s US business.
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Center City Philadelphia is known for polished storefronts, designer shopping, and big-name retailers, but there is a completely different side of the neighborhood if you know where to look. Around Rittenhouse Square, Midtown Village, and Washington Square West, secondhand shopping ranges from authenticated luxury resale to vintage boutiques and nonprofit thrift stores where the inventory
The Headline Isn’t the Whole Story Every few months, another headline claims researchers found microplastics somewhere they were never supposed to be. First it was bottled water. Then human placentas. Then the brain. Now researchers say they found them in the blood of people having heart attacks. That’s a headline that deserves more than a
The internet spent about five minutes convincing itself that Hailey Bieber’s new Gap jeans were the jeans everyone suddenly needed. That’s impressive considering they’re based on vintage Gap jeans that already exist. Gap knew exactly what it was doing here by partnering with someone whose style has already inspired countless Pinterest boards, TikToks, and Instagram
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Sustainability has become one of the most overused words in business. Clothing brands promise conscious collections. Retailers advertise recycled materials. Companies publish net zero commitments and environmental goals. The claims are everywhere, but proving them is much harder. Greenwashing is often framed as companies making false environmental claims, but that definition is too simple. The