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Craft Core and Sustainable Fashion are a Match Made in Heaven
Prairie Core, GORP Core, there seems to be a new core every 3-6 months these days. In the age of the internet, it feels like everyone is...
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BADLANDS
- Jan 26, 2021
Why Bernie Sanders is Right (As Usual) When it Comes to Outerwear
Inauguration day 2021. Undeniably a massive day in the history of the United States as the Trump regime finally winds to a close, at...
BADLANDS
- Jan 19, 2021
Editing Thrifted Fashion: In Conversation with Molly Apple
Like a luxury dress in the aisles of Value Village, it stands out amongst the thousands of fashion editorials gracing magazine pages...
BADLANDS
- Jan 12, 2021
BADLANDS ASKS: How Much Do You Think Clothing Should Cost?
Obviously, if you're here and reading this, you care about where your clothes were made, and how. But as we all know, sometimes putting...
BADLANDS
- Jan 5, 2021
How was 2020 the Year of Staying Home but also the Year of the Fantasy Dress?
Due to the fact that this year has been objectively insane, it does feel like a decade since the internet's obsession with THE Strawberry...
Isha King
- Jan 1, 2021
Hey, 2021: Realistic Sustainability Resolutions
Earlier this week, we gave you an industry retrospective for 2020. We took a look back at some of the moves towards sustainability that...
BADLANDS
- Dec 29, 2020
Sustainability in Retrospect: 2020
2020 has certainly been a year of self-reflection. COVID-19 has forced many of us to really look at what we value and how we live; that...
Isha King
- Dec 19, 2020
Secondhand Strategies for Circularity: In Conversation with Olivia Kelly
Fashion is an incredibly wasteful industry. If you’re a BADLANDS reader, you already know this. You may also have noticed that the...
BADLANDS
- Dec 8, 2020
Why Fashion Has to Ditch Identical Influencers to Truly Commit to Sustainability
When I imagine what an influencer Instagram post looks like, I picture a totally formulaic photo that is identical to just about every...
BADLANDS
- Dec 1, 2020
How Apps Mark the Generational Shift of Second Hand Shopping
Thrifting is nothing new. But the attitude towards thrifting has done a full 180 over the past two generations, and much of this shift is...
BADLANDS
- Nov 24, 2020
Can Instagram be a Tool to a Sustainable Wardrobe? I say OUI!
If there's one thing I know for certain, it's that I was NOT alone in scoffing at the updated Instagram interface. Twitter users left and...
Isha King
- Nov 20, 2020
Health, Morality, & Sustainable Fashion: In Conversation with Tash Pears
Today we’re focusing on the attitude-behaviour gap and sustainable fashion’s relationship with morality, with special insight
Isha King
- Nov 13, 2020
Streetwear Sucks: Hype Fashion, Sustainability, and Ethics
There are a lot of things about the fashion industry that make me roll my eyes into the back of my head. One thing that I’ve always...
BADLANDS
- Nov 11, 2020
It's Okay If Sometimes You Don't Shop Sustainable, I Promise
Can one shop 100% sustainably? Science says no. Or at least I do. There is a growing amount of pressure placed on the consumer to pick up...
BADLANDS
- Nov 4, 2020
So What's Actually Up With Prada & Sustainability?
It seems like every brand these days is talking sustainability, crafting their own commitments and making their own statements. And yeah...
BADLANDS
- Oct 28, 2020
French New Wave: How Paris-Based Designers Reinterpret Couture as Sustainability
Back in early 2019 when Paris announced it's goal to become the world's sustainable fashion capital, I shrugged my shoulders. Living in...
Isha King
- Oct 23, 2020
Brand Communication in Crisis: Why It Matters
We’ve been feverishly unsubscribing from mailing lists and insta-muting overactive brands for a while now, but the emails keep coming.
Isha King
- Oct 19, 2020
Your Shopping Habits Do Matter, I Promise.
Think the way you shop doesn't make a difference? So does everyone else.
BADLANDS
- Oct 17, 2020
Has the World Progressed Past the Need for Fashion Week as We Know It?
I think we're all a touch collectively shocked that fashion month even happened this fall. Like don't we have some other concerns to deal...
Isha King
- Oct 16, 2020
A World Away
What being quarantined without my things taught me about my own fashion consumption