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Lex in the City: Thrift Tour Guide, Downtown LA: Arts District, Fashion District

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DTLA’s thrift scene is less about a single strip and more about knowing which warehouses and buildings to walk into. The Fashion District bleeds into the Arts District which bleeds into Little Tokyo, and the vintage shops here reflect all of it — streetwear, luxury consignment, mission-driven resale, and everything in between. A few of these require […]

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Lex in the City: Thrift Tour Guide to Burbank: Magnolia Village

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Burbank doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Magnolia Blvd is one of the most walkable thrift strips in all of LA — a concentrated cluster of vintage boutiques, charity shops, and curated consignment stores within literal blocks of each other. You can park once and hit most of them on foot. These are shops run by people

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Aldo Sollazzo and Lexy Silverstein talk about sustainable fashion solutions

This Fabric Actually Absorbs CO2 From the Air — Meet the Material Innovation Changing Sustainable Fashion

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Imagine you’re sitting on a public bench in Barcelona. Normal enough. Except that bench is quietly pulling CO2 out of the air around you. Or you’re looking at a building going up in Dubai — 45,000 square meters of it — and the paint on its exterior is actively absorbing pollutants from the air. Or

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Lex in the City: Silver Lake, Echo Park & Atwater Village

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If there’s one thrift corridor in LA that actually lives up to the hype, it’s Sunset Blvd between Echo Park and Silver Lake. You’ve got multiple decades of vintage stacked within half a mile of each other, and the neighborhood’s whole identity is built around the idea that your clothes should mean something. This isn’t just shopping

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Before sustainable fashion was a trend, one researcher asked harder questions. Here's why Kate Fletcher's work still matters — and what it means for how you shop today.

Who Invented Sustainable Fashion? Meet Kate Fletcher — The Researcher Who Changed Everything

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There’s a version of sustainable fashion history that gets told a lot. It involves Instagram aesthetics, capsule wardrobes, celebrities with tote bags. It’s clean, it’s marketable, and it skips over the person who actually did the foundational intellectual work before any of that existed. Her name is Kate Fletcher. And if you haven’t heard of

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Berlin Fashion Week 2026: Sustainability Standards Now Mandatory for Designers - Image of 'The Lexy Show' graphic with Juliet Seger-Banks' photo framed next to Lexy Silverstein, walking in a grassy field, with playful star and floral details in the background.

Berlin Fashion Week 2026: Sustainability Standards Now Mandatory for Designers

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Berlin has always been known for its avant-garde edge and this year’s Fashion Week proved it’s not just about fresh looks, but fresh values. Sustainability wasn’t a buzzword; it was mandatory. Berlin Fashion Week 2026 became the platform showcasing fashion’s future: transparent, creative, and rooted in social responsibility. Berlin, you did not disappoint. What Are

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most clothing labeled as compostable is not safe or realistic to compost at home and fashion doesn’t always make that clear.

Can You Really Compost Clothing at Home? What Sustainable Fashion Brands Aren’t Telling You

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What Fashion Isn’t Telling You Yet You’ve probably seen the videos: a brand representative digging a hole in their backyard, burying a T-shirt, and promising it’ll decompose into nothing. Six months later, they dig it up and it’s gone. Proof, right? Not quite. Sustainable fashion TikTok and Instagram are full of these claims right now.

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How to Do Concert and Festival Fashion Sustainably

Harry Styles Is Back, Disco Is Back, But Let’s Make It Sustainable

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Harry Styles is back and so is my will to live. Harry Styles has tasked us with kissing all of the time and discoing occasionally. Thus we’re bringing back boas, sparkles, metallics, jumpsuits, halters, and the list goes on.  If you know me, you know I am a huge Harry Styles fan. This has been

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Not Buying It: The Y2K Guide to Calling BS on Fashion Greenwashing (Without Becoming the Fun Police)

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If you’ve ever tried to “get into sustainable fashion” and immediately felt like you needed a PhD, a personality transplant, and a brand-new wardrobe overnight, same. It’s a lot. Which is why I’m genuinely obsessed with Not Buying It, a guide to fashion greenwashing disguised as an early 2000s magazine, created by co-editors Mel Watt

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Green Your Pet’s Wardrobe: The Environmental Cost of Dressing Up Your Dog

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I love a dog in a sweater as much as the next person. My Yorkie, Scarlett, has a drawer dedicated to her wardrobe. But here’s the thing nobody talks about when we’re scrolling through Instagram feeds of pets in tiny outfits…pet fashion has the exact same sustainability problems as human fashion. Same synthetic materials, same

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Valentine’s Day Is a $27.5 Billion Waste Problem—And How to Fix It

How to Do Valentine’s Day Sustainably (Without Being Boring About It)

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Valentine’s Day has a bit of a reputation. Overpriced roses wrapped in plastic, cards that get tossed the next day, gifts that feel more like an obligation than an expression of love. But it doesn’t have to be that way. For me, a sustainable Valentine’s Day isn’t about doing less, it’s about doing it differently.

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Plastic waste in the ocean is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time. According to recent research, between 1 and 2 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, causing irreparable damage to marine ecosystems. A big part of that problem comes from discarded fishing nets, which the UN Environment Programme reports make up around 10% of all ocean plastic. These nets are dangerous for marine life, often trapping animals and creating "ghost nets" that continue to harm the environment for years.

How Recycled Fishing Nets Are Turning Ocean Waste into Stylish, Sustainable Fashion

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Plastic in the ocean is one of those problems that feels too big to fix, but what if we could turn some of that waste into something useful? That’s exactly what Econyl is doing. This recycled nylon fabric is made from ocean waste like fishing nets and fabric scraps, giving it a second life in

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The fashion industry runs on fossil fuels—from polyester production to factory power. The Make Polluters Pay campaign is shifting climate costs from consumers to the companies that caused the crisis. Here's what that means for sustainable fashion.

Make Polluters Pay: Why Your Polyester Dress Is Funded by Big Oil (And What We’re Doing About It)

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We’ve been sold a story about sustainability that puts all the pressure on us. Shop better. Recycle harder. Calculate your carbon footprint. Feel guilty about every purchase. But here’s what that story leaves out: the climate crisis wasn’t caused by you buying a dress. It was engineered by fossil fuel companies that knew for decades

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Greenwashing Hit Different in 2025—Here’s Who Got Caught (And What to Watch in 2026)

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From Shein to ExxonMobil, brands learned the hard way that vague “eco” claims don’t fly anymore. Here’s what happened—and how to spot the BS going forward. Sustainability marketing had a big year in 2025. Unfortunately, so did greenwashing. From fashion brands overstating recycled content to beauty companies making vague “eco” claims with nothing to back

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