I just got back from the desert and I’m still not over it. Justin Bieber headlining Coachella for the first time, Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G, The Kid LAROI showing up mid-set, Tems, Wizkid, fireworks. Weekend one was something else. I went secondhand shopping for my Coachella fit way before the festival but whether you’re heading […]
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Festival fashion has always been its own kind of arms race. New outfit every day. New look for every photo. The unspoken rule that you can’t be caught in the same thing twice, especially not at Coachella, where what you wear competes with who’s performing. But something is shifting this year, and it’s worth paying
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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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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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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
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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10 stops. Dixie Highway to Palm Beach Island. Budget thrift to designer vintage. Here’s what nobody tells you about West Palm Beach: it is one of the best thrift corridors in the entire country. You’ve got a single stretch of S. Dixie Highway where you can walk from a true Goodwill to a Chanel consignment boutique in
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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
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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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.
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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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
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 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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Your no-BS guide to what’s really happening in sustainable fashion Hey fashion friends! Here’s your first edition of The Susty Scoop. If we’re going to save the planet, we need to know what’s actually working, spoiler, not as much as we’d hope, and what’s just fancy greenwashing dressed up in hemp clothing. The last few
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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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