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2019.
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"The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth-fashion-into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they're made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion revolutionaries. In The Conscious Closet, Elizabeth shows us how we can start to truly love and understand our clothes again-without sacrificing the...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"What should I wear? It?s one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today, the clothing industry churns out 80 billion garments a year and employs every sixth person on Earth. Historically, the apparel trade has exploited labor, the environment, and intellectual property?and in the last three decades, with the simultaneous unfurling of fast fashion, globalization, and the tech...
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Running a successful fashion empire in Paris and New York that hides the pain of a failed marriage, Timmie O endures a sequence of meaningless relationships before a surprise bout of appendicitis places her under the care of alluring but married French doctor, Jean-Charles Vernier.
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
c2013, c2012
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258 pages ; 22 cm
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This work evaluates the costs of low priced clothing while tracing the author's own transformation to a conscientious shopper, a journey during which she visited a garment factory, learned to resole shoes, and shopped for local, sustainable clothing. Until recently, she was a typical American consumer. She had grown accustomed to shopping at outlet malls, discount stores like T.J. Maxx, and cheap but trendy retailers like Forever 21, Target, and...
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Fashion Forward: Striving for Sustainable Style goes behind the glitz and glamour to explore the social and environmental issues within the fashion industry. It looks at the history of fashion, from why humans started wearing clothes to the birth of consumerism to the explosion of fast fashion and fashion's footprint. The book introduces readers to the innovative people, companies and organizations that are taking positive action on fashion. Kids...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 17
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Ellie Quicke finds you can choose your friends but not your family. Poppy's wealthy father hadn't liked the look of the men whom his twin daughters intended to marry, and had set them up in the Magpie fashion boutique to ensure they would be able to support themselves; at the same time ensuring that the girls made a will in one another's favour. The business prospered and expanded until, many years later, skeletons start to come out of the closet....
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
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359 pages ; 25 cm
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A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose.
A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose. When a garment factory fire Dhaka, Bangladesh claims the lives of hundreds of workers, mostly young women, a bystander captures a...
12) Zoolander no. 2
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Beloved model Derek Zoolander and his rival turned partner Hansel face a threat to their continued success.
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"For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1.700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trus the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by...
15) House of Gucci
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
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Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
2021.
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xvi, 286 pages ; 21 cm
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"In Consumed, Barber calls for change within an industry that regularly overreaches with abandon, creating real imbalances in the environment and the lives of those who do the work--often in unsafe conditions for very low pay--and the billionaires who receive the most profit. A story told in two parts, Barber exposes the endemic injustices in our consumer industries and the uncomfortable history of the textile industry, one which brokered slavery,...
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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108 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
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"As a young working-class German immigrant, Levi Strauss left his family's dry goods business in New York City to journey out west for the California Gold Rush. Only Levi wasn't looking for gold -- he wanted to provide the miners with sturdy clothes to wear while they worked in the dusty river beds. His solution? Blue jeans -- pants made of strong denim fabric -- which have become one of the most beloved and fashionable clothing items in the world."--Amazon.com....
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
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4 DVDs (521 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Beatrice and Evangeline Eliott, penniless orphans, find employment and romance in the world of London fashion design during the roaring twenties. Changing times, cutthroat competition, and romance flavor the dramatic conclusion. As the Roaring Twenties close, the market for haute couture is shrinking. In order to survive, can the House of Eliott realize that ready-to-wear is fashion's future?
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