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PARIS, May 20 — From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record. Change is urgently needed, since the industry...

Fashions green future of seaweed coats and mushroom shoes Issued on: US designer Charlotte McCurdy has used seaweed to make a raincoast. - Charlotte McCurdy/AFP 4 min Paris (AFP) From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record. Change is urgently needed, since the indus...

Some experts are sceptical that such initiatives can lead to large-scale transformation.

From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record. Change is urgently needed, since the industry consumes 93 billion cubic meters of water per year, dumps 500,000 tonnes of plastic microfibers into the ocean, and accounts for 10 percent of global carbon emissions, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The grow...

Nicole McLaughlin wearing the collection’s JanShorts and Jan-Sports Bra During our young schooling days, apart from our friends, nothing could be more dependable than our backpacks. It efficiently carried our things for us to easily walk, gave us free hands, and, being at the back, helped some with their posture. Paying homage to the importance of backpacks and the Earth, bag brand Jansports launched last month its collaboration collection with New York-based designer Nicole McLaughlin, a mas...

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(AP Photo/Peter Dejong) In the latest episode of “Everything Is Racist,” far-leftists are using images from Oprah’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to make even more unfounded allegations of bigotry. A leftist non-profit organization called “Slow Factory Foundation” issued a warning specifically to white people telling them they are engaging in “digital blackface” when they post memes that include black people in them. According to the intrepid individuals at the Slo...

“Performing blackness, be it IRL or online, is not an acceptable form of expressing reaction or dissatisfaction, especially not in exchange for likes and retweets,” the Slow Factory wrote in an Instagram recent post. The organization issued its warning about “digital blackface” following Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, which resulted in new popular internet memes featuring Oprah Winfrey. “Since the #MeghanandHarry interview on Oprah, we’ve been seei...

A non-profit group says white people should stop sharing memes of Oprah's interview with Harry and Meghan because it's 'digital blackface.'

"Performing Blackness, be it IRL or online, is not an acceptable form of expressing reaction or dissatisfaction," says radical group