Skip to content
Search

Latest Stories

Articles

Ethical Style: How to Buy a More Ethical Knockoff A More Ethical Knock-Off of Forever 21 Fashions

How to find ethically produced alternatives to the latest trend—in less time than it takes to circle the racks at Forever 21.

Articles

Ethical Style: Should You Really Wear That 'Ethnic' Print?

Fashion, like American culture, ought to be a multicultural melting pot. Unfortunately, the fashion industry is overwhelmingly run by white people.

Articles

Ethical Style: Pantone's 'Tangerine Tango' and the Ethics of Color Forecasting Pantone's 'Tangerine Tango' and the Ethics of Color Forecasting

You may have a closet full of blues, but if the shade is a bit off of Pantone’s predictions, it’s rendered instantaneously passé.

Articles

Ethical Style: How Ethical Is 'Artisanal' Production? Are 'Artisanal' Products More Ethical?

"Artisanal” no longer necessarily signifies hand-made, skilled craftsmanship. It means whatever a company says it does.

Articles

Ethical Style: Angelina Jolie's Engagement Ring and the State of the Ethical Diamond Angelina Jolie's Engagement Ring and Ethical Diamond Sourcing

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie can afford to buy the most ethical diamond ring on the market. The knockoff version isn't so innocent.

Articles

Ethical Style: How to Kick the Fast Fashion Habit

9 quick fixes to help you stock your closet with long-term clothes.

Articles

Ethical Style: There Are Still Sweatshops in America

A former garment worker claims that Alexander Wang ran a “sweatshop,” in the United States of America. Here's a brief history of U.S. sweatshops.

Articles

Ethical Style: The Dye-It-Yourself Revolution

Meet the DIY dyers who hope to revive the lost connection between the people who buy clothes and the production processes that create them.

Articles

Ethical Style: Don't Donate Clothes, Repurpose Them

Quality clothing means better fabric, and good fabric can be reworked again and again to make sure it never goes out of style.

Articles

Ethical Style: Where Do My Used Clothes Go?

Should carting our discarded clothes off to Goodwill make us feel better, or worse?

Articles

Ethical Style: Why Fashion Needs to Get Political

Fashion needs a rebirth of the political spirit—a serious consumer-focused movement to help us navigate the trends.

Articles

Ethical Style: What Happened to Made In the USA?

The state of the U.S. manufacturing industry is dire. How did this happen?

Articles

Ethical Style: How Is My T-Shirt Made?

Your T-shirt can be made any number of ways, but more likely than not, it isn’t made here.

Articles

Ethical Style: Fashion Advice for the Socially Conscious

Introducing GOOD's new column on dressing ethically.