This Is What a Traceable Fashion Brand Actually Looks Like
This Is What a Traceable Fashion Brand Actually Looks Like
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On November 26, 2020, approximately 250 million people in India united for a historic strike. The reason? A series of three new agricultural laws that could prove devastating to the livelihood and existence of local farmers, and hold the potential to make the global trade of cotton even more embroiled in devastating labor practices than it is already.
The laws were passed in September by Prime Minister Narendra Modi s government. They privatize the crop market and deregulate pricing, meaning that companies are able to undercut family businesses and push them out of the market, in turn contributing to crippling worker debt and a suicide rate among Indian farmers that is already devastatingly high. Peaceful protests calling for repeal have been occurring ever since the laws were passed, often resulting in police brutality featuring tear ga
Who couldn’t use a magic wand right now? Thea Bregazzi and Justin Thornton’s impulse to bring a little brightness to the world is symbolically held aloft by one of the models who stands on an English beach in their pre-fall look book. “We thought that everyone is dreaming of a bit of escapism,” says Bregazzi. “So we went from there to thinking we’d do something around the idea of magic realism.”
Their research into the history of the circus took them to the work of Diane Arbus, whose photographs of women sword-swallowers in a traveling show dressed in Victoriana costumes chimed with them. Well, keeping the show on the road, and spirits up, is a universally relatable sentiment for a myriad of independent designers like Thornton and Bregazzi.
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Face masks come in a variety of colors, fabrics and sizes. Find one that s right for you.
Three seasons have passed since COVID-19 first broke out, and now the Northern Hemisphere is facing a long, masked winter. We’ll need to adapt our current face mask-wearing practices for the realities of living in a colder environment.
The good news (if anything related to this pandemic can be called good news) is that you won’t have to change anything you’re doing as long as you’re already following WHO recommendations to wear a three-layered nonmedical mask, one with an absorbent inner layer near the mouth, a middle filtration layer and an outer layer. But do you need to bulk up and wear a woolen mask, or will that only put you more at risk? Experts gave us answers.