Fashion reality show promotes recycling clothes

Amidst all the new midseason replacement fashion reality shows like NBC's Fashion Star and Style Network's Confessions of a Fashionette, I found VH1's House of Consignment where a company buys designer duds from consumers and sells them for profit, also known as the thriftiness of recycling. 

Consignment shops can be a goldmine for unique vintage and designer clothes and accessories that can't be found anywhere else because the owners buy or accept donated items from  a variety of consumers. So a consignment shop transforms to a candy shop where the perfect items are confectionery sweet.  

House of Consignment centers around the Chicago-based luxury online shop, eDrop-Off, where they take this concept of only purchasing the finest, gently used designer garb and placing the newly discovered items online where they are auctioned off. Though eDrop-Off pays the original owners for their items before they go online, owners still get a cut of the check when the items sell. 

The eco-friendly process keeps clothes and accessories in the loop of recycling, especially with the major designer labels such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Prada using tons of leather, animal fur, and other not-so-eco-friendly materials. Even in the first episode, an owner sold a heavy fur cape to eDrop-Off where a consumer bought it online to use as a throw on her sofa.

Levi's, Water.org join forces in water shortage crisis

One billion people across the globe do not have access to clean drinking water. With the threat of climate change, water is becoming more scarce in these regions. Denim company Levi's built a partnership with Water.org to improve clothing production by using less water.

Levi's Water<Less multimedia campaign involves a variety of products including jeans, tries to get people motivated to do challenges, and shows videos of people living without clean water or working to get water back to these communities. 

According to the website, Levi's has made over 13 million Water<Less products and saved almost 45.5 million gallons of water.

One piece of advice Levi's is leaving for consumers is if they wash their Water<Less jeans once a week rather than twice a week, then we can all save over 226 million gallons of water.



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Celebs wear Prophetik gowns on red carpet

More celebs are sashaying down the red carpet in green fashion. The latest supporter is actress Suzy Amis Cameron, who wore a silver gray Prophetik by Jeff Garner gown made from peace or ahimsa silk, at the international film premiere of 1997's Titanic in 3D. 

Director James Cameron and actress wife Suzy Amis Cameron on the red carpet at the Titanic 3D premiere in London. Image: upi.com.

Even musician Esperanza Spalding wore a similar version of the Prophetik dress in sky blue last month at the Oscars. 

Musician Esperanza Spalding on the red carpet at the Oscars last month in Los Angeles. Image: vogue.com.