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May Mauveine
@maymauveine.com
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Documenting sustainable fashion projects, artists, and organizations through photography.* 📍NYC-based. *This will not be perfect.
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 2d
🟣 “…the experts listed the many health threats coming from heatwaves, droughts, heavy rain and other climate-related phenomena. "Climate change is increasingly destabilizing the planetary systems and environmental conditions on which human life depends," the study said.”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 2d
🟣 “Organizers say the space will focus on slower, sustainable design, where designers will offer workshops on things like making garments from reused materials.”

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ACCUEIL UAMEP - UAMEP - Une autre mode est possible
Collectif citoyen pour une mode circulaire, solidaire et artistique. UAMEP rassemble créateurs, artisans, lieux culturels et acteurs de l’ESS autour d’événements engagés et d’actions de terrain.
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 2d
🟣 “Earlier this month, activists and designers gathered at a new headquarters for Une Autre Mode Est Possible, which means "Another Fashion Is Possible.”” ⬇️
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 2d
🟣 The images are stunning. ✨
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 2d
🟣 This article is a little old, but it still holds up:

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/n...
UN decries Amazon, Walmart, DoorDash for ‘shameful’ wages and union-busting
Human rights expert says US companies trap workers in poverty, forcing them to rely on food stamps and Medicaid
www.theguardian.com
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 3d
🟣 “Sunglasses block the eyes and render one of the biggest datapoints for the system useless and low light pictures don’t work at all so many cameras taking pictures for facial recognition use infrared light to take a picture of a person’s face.”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 4d
🟣 “Textiles is the biggest industry in Lesotho, a country of about 2.3 million people. Those businesses employ 12,000 people and indirectly support 40,000 jobs, supplying US retailers such as Walmart Inc., JC Penney and Levi Strauss & Co.“
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 4d
🟣 “A 2019 study found that discarded Halloween costumes generated around 2,000 tons of plastic waste each year… This Halloween, consider DIYing a costume…“

“Thrift and consignment shops extend the life of pieces that may otherwise be headed for the landfill.”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 4d
🟣 Consider thrifting Halloween this year. Better yet, consider a costume that could be incorporated into your daily wardrobe. 🎃 👻 ⬇️

www.vogue.com/article/hall...
Help! I Keep Accidentally Buying Halloween Costumes at Vintage Shops
That chic, bohemian ruffled top I thought I scored at a thrift store? Turns out, it was part of a pirate costume.
www.vogue.com
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 5d
Amazon did invest make one notable investment:

Destroying the White House. ⬇️

🟣 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Big Tech helped bankroll the East Wing destruction
Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the Trump administration. They all cut checks for the ballroom.
www.motherjones.com
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 7d
How cool!

🟣 “…a dialogue between digital typography / type design and the analog craft of knitting…”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 8d
🟣 “Manufacturing of textiles and apparel is arduous work, which historically depended on skilled artisans, inexpensive labor, and the introduction of labor-saving technology. Immigrant communities supplied much of the work force…”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 8d
🟣 “Sectioned off from the tomatoes and cabbages, the natural dye and fibre garden is filled with plants that were once among the most coveted and useful in the world, but have become neglected as industrial processes transformed the textile industry with plastic fabrics and synthetic colours.”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 8d
🟣 “Despite the impact it has, the study found that most consumers underestimate the environmental damage caused by clothes, with many overestimating the sustainability of familiar brands.”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 9d
In a raid reported to be related to the selling of counterfeit goods:

🟣 “Federal agents were seen using batons and threatening to use pepper spray as they attempted to control the crowd. One officer appeared to pull a woman by the hair while dispersing people from the street.”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 9d
🟣 “Some statistics suggest the pre-owned clothing market is growing as much as seven times as quickly as the fashion retail sales sector as a whole.”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 9d
🟣 “A graduate of Central Saint Martins College, London's renowned art and fashion school, Wales Bonner made her name with refined ready-to-wear deeply rooted in artistic and intellectual references to the African diaspora, from James Baldwin and Aimé Césaire to Kerry James Marshall.”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 9d
The cautionary tales of fashion trends go way back:

🟣 “What began as imperial elegance soon turned into the so-called murderous millinery fad that lasted well into the First World War and decimated bird populations across the world, as feathers and entire wings became the currency of fashion.”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 9d
Shein’s manipulation tactics that increase overconsumption:

🟣 “…reportedly brought in $1bn net profit last year, making it not simply a figurehead of “ultra-fast fashion”, but one of China’s most lucrative companies.” #fastfashion

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘A paroxysm of disposability’: France’s distaste for Shein’s ultra-fast fashion
A petition to ban the brand has passed 270,000 names but French shoppers have not been immune to its inexorable rise
www.theguardian.com
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 9d
🟣 “Thanks to AI, which collects vast amounts of data on user profiles, each customer has a different online store, personalised according to their history, tastes, preferences and aversions. This increases the likelihood of one or more impulse purchases.” ⬆️
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 9d
🟣 “Diversity in bodies and conceptions of beauty are being briskly disappeared, along with any sense that women might break out of the regressive and painful patterns designed for them.”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 9d
🟣 “The slide towards extreme skinniness in fashion seems increasingly in line with contemporary politics, which lean toward the right at ever-more-dramatic inclines.”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 9d
🟣 “We have such a big, lovely knitting community in Portland, that’s how a lot of my friends know each other, and we thought you need to have fun protesting, and that’s how we have fun,” [one knitter] said. “Also, I think it makes fascists look stupid.”

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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 10d
🟣 “Socially, restricting the longest-toed shoes to the nobility ensured the shoe would be a visual status marker associated with the upper classes. This obvious sign helped maintain social order & prevented lower-class people from trying to pass themselves off as higher in standing than they were.”
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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 10d
🟣 “But make no mistake: Climate solutions are still moving forward. In every corner of the country, people are working as tirelessly as ever to address this crisis in creative, holistic, and equitable ways.” 👏