Recycled Fashion is a sustainable fashion blog dedicated to opportunity shops, charity shops, thrift stores, vintage stores, markets, garage sales, car boot sales, online stores and auctions to find those special recycled fashion wardrobe pieces. Showcasing recycled, vintage, upcycled and DIY fashion, sewing, eco-style, ethical fashion, second hand shopping tours, fair trade and general fashion chat.
Recycled Fashion is not just a personal blog, but a collaboration of sustainable fashion initiatives that have been sourced from around the world. You will find blog polls (place your vote), discussions, features on ethical online retailers, markets, giveaways, linky parties, and much more. Guestposts and suggestions are welcomed.
Fashion does not have to cost the earth.. financially, or environmentally.
Who writes for Recycled Fashion?
Erica
Erica's blogger profile
Erica is a full time mother to a little boy. She studied Business & Finance, and Interior Design, and worked in the environmental / community development sector for many years. She writes (Recycled Fashion), creates (her crafty blog is Recycled Sewing) and occasionally leads op shopping tours (for Melbourne Op Shop Tours) More recently, she co-founded a new e-commerce site Recycled Market, an online marketplace to buy, sell and find recycled products.
Erica is environmentally passionate, and believes that new style can be recreated from old. Rather than landfill our beautiful planet with fabric, she prefers to buy second hand clothing, and refashion her own outfits. Recycled outfits make fashion more sustainable, and fun.
“Fashion doesn't have to cost the earth, financially or environmentally.”
Erica featured on national Australian TV; Coxy's Big Break in April 2011, the segment can be viewed here
Erica is also the one of the editors of a refashion collaborative blog Refashion Co-op. A group that came together around a shared love for refashioning, or making over old garments into new garments and accessories, to create a space dedicated to refashioning.
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You can contact Erica at erica (at) recycled-fashion.com.
