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...Julia C. “JC” Guest adopted an eco-friendly design style, as she searched for “vintage” clothes at the Garment District’s Dollar-A-Pound pile. With Al Gore ’69 as her fashion inspiration, Guest decided to forego her muse’s stark suits and focus on his environmentally friendly message. Guest created a shockingly complex dress for a rock-bottom price of $5.40. Several distinct patterns merged in this layered-tank dress, which Guest finished with buttons down the back—a detail...
Shortly after the beginning of the challenge, Guest frantically searches the $1.50 per pound pile of used clothing at the Garment District (she was, after all, on deadline...
...Lime-colored banners festooned from trees proclaimed that “Green is the New Crimson,” event organizers hawked stickers reading “I composted today,” and even the John Harvard statue was requisitioned for the theme, donning some garish green garment for the day. One could easily get the impression that enduring such tacky and tasteless displays ranks among the manifold sacrifices of a sustainable lifestyle...
...center of the Chinese region often called the world's factory, is a wealthy city. But even here, the global credit squeeze is making it tougher for businesses to borrow money to cover their short-term needs. "Right now, we're facing trouble," says Tommy Lam, owner of a garment factory in Dongguan, a Chinese manufacturing hub near Hong Kong. "We're not getting repeat orders we're supposed to get. [And] banks are warning us they may cut our credit in the future...
...Some developing countries welcome a new model of capitalism. Cambodia, for example, has played the game of global trade; it signed a deal with the U.S. governing its garment exports, a big part of its economy. Now some Cambodian leaders think they should look elsewhere. "Why wouldn't we copy what China did?" one official in Phnom Penh said to me. "We had years of what the U.S. told us to do, and got this" (he pointed at beggars crawling outside a five-star hotel). "Now we go to China and all we see is how far ahead...