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Yes, even clothes can be recycled
Call it the Forever 21 effect, or fast fashion. Americans are buying, and discarding, clothes more quickly than ever. The average American throws 54 pounds of clothes and shoes into the trash each year. That adds up to about 9 million tons of wearables...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Christianity, Dining and Drinking, Los Angeles Times, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Unclassified Info: Public speaking as character builder
When I’m not spending my time inciting the ire of readers around the community, I have a relatively interesting day job in corporate America. Aside from the regular demands of the daily grind, the company is obsessive about the growth and...Tags: California, Abraham Lincoln, Gwen Stefani, Minority Groups, Native Americans
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Levi Strauss cited for wage violations
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department says clothing maker Levi Strauss & Co. will pay about $1 million in back wages to 596 employees after the government found overtime and record keeping violations. A government investigation found that the...Tags: Employees, Wages and Pensions, Career and Workplace, Washington, DC, Labor Legislation
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Clothing prices to rise come spring
NEW YORK - The era of falling clothing prices is ending. Clothing prices have dropped for a decade as tame inflation and cheap overseas labor helped hold down costs. Retailers and clothing makers cut frills and experimented with fabric blends to cut...Tags: Nautica, Nike, Inc., Washington (U.S. state), Pakistan, Chevy Chase
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Comments & Curiosities: Tush-cam installed in a dressing room near you
This is huge, technologically speaking. Bigger than the iPad2, bigger than Playbook, bigger than iCloud, maybe. Imagine you're shopping for jeans, something that is not fun if you are a male, and something you dread if you are a non-male. Finding a...Tags: California, Nevada, Sarah Palin, Davis (Yolo, California), Newport Beach
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Handling the curves: Inside Levi's Curve ID line
Brand XFor 18 months, the folks at Levi Strauss & Co. studied women around the world, conducting thousands of interviews and looking at 60,000 body scans of women in 13 countries. The company says the result — besides confirmation that for women, jeans... -
Your morning fashion and beauty report: Philippe Starck to create a new bottle for L'Air du Temps.
All The RageProduct designer Philippe Starck has turned to fragrance, and will rework the iconic dooule-dove L'air du Temps bottle for Nina Ricci. The flask was originally designed by Marc Lalique (of the equally iconic Laliques) with Robert Ricci. Okay, I am...... -
New York Fashion Week: Opportunity knocks, and Billy Reid's at the door(s)
All The RageBilly Reid told us the set design for his menswear presentation was inspired by the work of Clarence John Little, a photographer whose work focused on the decaying, abandoned buildings of New Orleans and the surrounding South in the period...... -
Levi's makes 'green' jeans using 28% less water
All The RageIt takes an average of 2,866 gallons of water to make a single pair of jeans, factoring in the growing of the cotton, as well as its bleaching, dyeing and finishing, according to the Water Footprint Network, a Dutch nonprofit....... -
Blanket coverage: Levi's X Pendleton collaboration hits stores Nov. 8
All The RageThe latest wardrobe mashup from collaboration-crazy Levi Strauss & Co. is with Pendleton Woolen Mills, a sixth-generation, family-owned brand that's been part of the fabric of America nearly as long as the jeans maker. The Portland, Ore.-based blanket... -
Billy Reid wins 2010 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award
All The RageIt's turning out to be quite a year for Billy Reid. In February, the Florence, Ala.-based menswear designer won GQ magazine's award for best new designer, which resulted in a collaborative Levi Strauss workwear-inspired capsule collection that hit... -
USC launches Annenberg Innovation Lab to create social technology prototypes
L.A. Times Tech BlogRecruiting top faculty from its media, engineering and cinema programs, USC is starting a new social technology laboratory with a focus on big-ticket issues in digital culture. The Annenberg Innovation Lab, which the university is announcing Wednesday,...
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