Posts Tagged ‘ recycling ’
Despite the rainy weather, Milan is really vibrant in these days getting ready for a new edition of the world famous Fuorisalone, in other words the Design Week. It is indeed the time when the city shows all its beauty, almost transforming into a big, young, independent creativity hub. Of course the core of all [ READ MORE ]
On Ethicalista are many the chances to talk and discuss Sustainable Fashion. Many the events, seminars and shows to promote and advertise about this growing direction fashion is taking. Day by day Sustainable Fashion is permeating shopping areas, so is no surprise to find interesting and pleasant examples in a place like the Navigli in Milan where, since [ READ MORE ]
Saisei in Japanese means rebirth-recovery. This was exactly what Giorgia Palmirani had in mind when in her Bologna workshop started this new and unexpected accessories brand. Old unused kits, scraps of historical workshops, old materials, military tents and army fabrics carrying the signs and taste of the time, yet carrying their glorious, never lost story. All [ READ MORE ]
This Fall/Winter 2012/13 Fashion Week in Milan arrived at its close just yesterday and it’s now time to try to evaluate how sustainability was felt and its promoters lived the show. Many articles wrote about the lack of foreign visitors, about the absence of the Japanese and how the Chinese invasion they expected did not [ READ MORE ]
The Quagga project aimed to create and distribute protective winter clothing highly attentive to environmental sustainability and ethical responsibility. The team behind this brand comes from different backgrounds but all were involved with leading international clothing brands. With time realized how the fashion industry was damaging the planet and the people and how this information was likely stating [ READ MORE ]
It was destiny that made Luisa Leonardi Scomazzoni start her company Dalaleo. She was on holiday in Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, she bought a bag because she liked it, discovered the story behind it and gave a twist to her life. Throughout the streets of this beautiful country – Luisa tells – I continuously saw [ READ MORE ]
Sometimes beautiful projects and products are the result of an intuition, a coincidence and a chance. This is probably the case of Smateria. When Elisa and Jennifer, both from Italy, met in Cambodia they had no business plan nor product development schedule, just good will and a vision: helping local women earning their living through their [ READ MORE ]
From the friendship of three Padua students the idea of offering something new in fashion. “The world surrounding us gave already all the raw material we need, now it is time to find a way to gather all this”, from this concept they decided to give new life to unused things they would find around [ READ MORE ]
Just a month ago there was the grand opening of a new space with is the “Fabbrica del Vapore“: the Cathedral! Honestly a really nice and welcoming space, pity for the huge tent in the centre of the external garden hosting, since a few years now, the Ciak theatre. In the Cathedral itself for the Fuorisalone [ READ MORE ]
The Design Week – Fuorisalone – is clearly the biggest event in Milan. Hundreds of thousands of people arrive from all over the world to enjoy a very democratic series of events, taking place in many different corners and contests of the City. A visitor, expert or simply curious, can enter and have a look [ READ MORE ]
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