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An environmentally conscious guide to better health and true wealth. When planning daily outfits and packing your travel bags was a huge deal. Sandy black has 14 books on goodreads with 707 ratings. The designers and labels featured in eco fashion, overview a range of change in our industry from entirely new business models to recycle, reuse, redesign, sustainable fabrications, diversion of waste materials from landfill, fair trade and community development. This book is the first to situate todays eco fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context, investigating the relationship between fashion and the environment as far back as the early nineteenth century.
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