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Deborah

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joined on 08/19/08
last updated 08/20/08
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I create Eco Couture, one of a kind wearable art out of recycled and vintage fabrics. For environmental info, fashion sketches, and photos please visit www.recycledfordancing.com
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Wear Your Values

Coco Chanel once said “Fashion is not something that exists only in dresses. Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

At the end of its journey clothing and fabric scrap takes up a huge amount of landfill. Add to that the environmental costs of packaging, transport, color dying, printing, and laundry and it creates a dangerous and enormous carbon footprint. This is the reason fashion designed with recycled ... read more
Tue, January 20, 2009 - 1:04 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
By the time it hits the small screen a TV show will have costume as many as 50 or more people. Movies can costume as much as 2,000 or 3,000 people each before they hit the big screen or video circuit. That’s a lot of costumes per production.

Waiting for these kinds of costume jobs to be posted on your local web board or mailing list is a lot of waiting while also surfing related boards and mailing lists. Plus for each job you find on a board or mailing lists you are competing with hundred... read more
Wed, August 20, 2008 - 9:37 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
The truth about what you are wearing on you your skin 23 hours of the day might make your hair stand on end, it did mine.

Ever wonder what goes into the clothes on your back?

The Problems:

Synthetic fabric production consumes nonrenewable resources, mostly fossil oils, while emitting greenhouse gases like nitrous oxide and releasing toxic wastewater containing organic solvents, heavy metals, dyes, and fiber treatments.

Rayon is made from wood pulp from mature forests and its proce... read more
Tue, August 19, 2008 - 2:54 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
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