Gold Winner Lisa Drader-Murphy, Turbine Silver Winner Veronica MacIsaac Bronze Winner Kim Munson, Orphanage Clothing Can someone please let me know what multivitamin Lisa Drader-Murphy is taking? Between being the president and owner of the ever popular label and shop Turbine, successfully organizing the Turbine India Project—a fund for young women in Hyderabad, India to […]
Orphanage Clothing
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Recycle chic
1. Mixtape Apparel mixtapeapparel.com Mixtape Apparel is a company founded in Halifax by Jason Duong, a Dalhousie commerce student. Along with offering belts and t-shirts, he repurposes old audio cassettes into belt buckles, saving them from the landfill and allowing for a fashion statement sure to make your skinny-jeaned hipster pals choke with covetous frustration. […]
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Artisans that use recycled materials
Five Surprises fivesurprises.com Haleigh Sheehan takes previously loved clothing—especially anything in natural fibres with an interesting print, texture or colour—to make handbags, tops and dresses, and cuts down on waste by using up all the scraps in smaller projects like scarves and cuffs. Worn-out bicycle tires are utilized on the soles of shoes and sandals. […]
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Love, Me Ts Event on Now
Bring in your pre-loved, stained, logo besmirched or otherwise used t-shirts to Love, Me Boutique (1539 Birmingham Street, 444-3668) by Friday, March 5 and you can have a whole new creation, one-of-a-kind and reimagined by the hottest local designers. You’ll be asked to fork over $45 (cash only) and to fill out a questionnaire about […]