Upcycled Record Coasters, available on Uncommon Goods, $18These upcycled coasters are made from reclaimed vinyl records and sealed against moisture.
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Made with a mixture of upcycled cotton and plastic bottles.
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Each mat is handmade from upcycled polyester and cotton fabric.
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Upcycled planters are perfect for taking something old and making it new.
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Miami — The Hurricanes have a new alternate made out of upcycled materials.
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Lights hung in upcycled wine bottles, greenish in tint but somehow flattering.
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The city's neighborhood markets and "brocantes" are great for finding upcycled souvenirs.
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Pro tip: Source materials that are sustainably produced, consciously raised, and even upcycled.
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But, these upcycled designer bags are every Star Wars fan's dream-come-true.
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Alexander McQueen upcycled old laces and tulle from previous looks into its new collection.
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Liparts added that Ecocoast's intention is to have the collected trash recycled or upcycled.
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There was a clothing boutique of upcycled clothes from the designer Zero Waste Daniel.
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It has also upcycled more than 1,000 bottles into soap dispensers and small herb gardens.
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According to the designer's Instagram page, her outfit was hand-embellished with upcycled Swarovski crystals.
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After all, my own body has been shaped, upcycled, recrafted, and given a second life.
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Allan Rubin transforms his artistic heroes into three-dimensional sculptures made from upcycled tin cans.
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It's a fun watch because it shows how iPhone hardware can be repurposed and upcycled.
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A pair of sunglasses integrates upcycled mixed materials from keychains and parts of sanitation trucks.
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He ran in Adidas x Parley running shoes, which are made out of upcycled plastic waste.
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The jewelry is also made from upcycled saris -- garments damaged in production and not being used.
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We can choose remanufactured and upcycled apparel like those on offer from Eileen Fisher and Converse.
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Missoni even upcycled some old fabrics into a pair of patchwork trousers and a — yes — trench.
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The 500-square-foot studio is furnished with vintage rugs, midcentury modern furniture and upcycled art.
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New upcycled design startup Pentatonic is the brainchild of CEOs and partners Jamie Hall and Johann Boedecker.
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Of course, Ms. Halliday is not the only Irish designer who works on upcycled or sustainable garments.
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Looptworks upcycled the materials to create a scarf, sling bag and dopp kits using about 250 jerseys.
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Not only are Wowe's Natural Bamboo Toothbrushes durable, they can also be upcycled when you're done with them.
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Hipsters For Sisters' products are made entirely with recycled, upcycled, or deadstocked materials, earning the approval of PETA.
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Shrubs mesh with artful machines in an ongoing series of hybrid upcycled typewriters by Turkish artist Aysenaz Karayalcin.
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The upcycled phones use existing cell phone networks which White says are available even deep in the jungle.
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Items of potential value are divided among store owners and used for re-selling or 'upcycled' into new items.
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Slowly changing views The pads Saathi produces are biodegradable and can be upcycled to compost or biogas after use.
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All of the Nintendo handhelds, though, went back together, and I upcycled them and sold them on their way.
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What is certain, however, is that this low-budget display of primordial upcycled poo-centric objects was a hit.
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In the past 12 months, he has designed leather goods, eyewear, upcycled sneakers and tailoring under the Byredo name.
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All of the denim in the show was upcycled from pieces that the designer sourced from just outside Paris.
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You can find plenty of upcycled toys at Found Beauty Studio Art's Etsy page, like this kitschy dino soap dispenser.
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The Air Force envisions future UCAVs, upcycled from traditional, human-flown fighters, as flying alongside crewed aircraft on combat missions.
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Thredup has already upcycled 100 million items, which is like taking 48 million cars off the road for a day.
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To be "good," we must convert to 100 percent solar energy, ride an upcycled bike everywhere, stop flying, eat vegan.
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Plus, thanks to Gap's "Gift the Thought" campaign, this Upcycled Puffer also makes a perfect gift option for the holidays.
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They're upcycled Victorian-era maid smocks (so "Downton Abbey"-meets-"It"!) in a lovely light chartreuse color called Smog Factory.
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Because people are generally less likely to toss a pricey fur coat, it's not hard to get yourself an upcycled version.
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Upcycled Record Coasters, available at Uncommon Goods, $18Remind him that vinyl will never go out of style, and neither will he.
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Missoni upcycled vintage swatches into a kaleidoscopic coat, and Etro combined a "Little House on the Prairie" aesthetic with eclectic geometries.
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Missoni's old stock is getting a promotion in her hands, upcycled to fresh relevance instead of gathering dust on factory shelves.
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Lili Dreyer explained why she was inspired to launch a sustainable shoe brand, making upcycled sneakers from textile waste in London.
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The burlap wrapping each arrangement and bouquet, Farmgirl Flowers' trademarked signature, is upcycled from biodegradable coffee bean bags donated by local roasters.
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The Glove Boot features Everlane's textured, sustainable ReKnit fabric which is made from upcycled plastic bottles ; each pair contains nine of them.
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A community of 20 people from Tempelhof, Germany are living in an "Earthship" that has been made completely out of upcycled materials.
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For example, if you're looking to keep things sustainable and warm, the brand new upcycled puffer is dropping from $168 to $84.
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Wrap gifts with upcycled paper, old scarves, or anything else that won't add to the immense waste generated by the holiday season.
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Elizabeth Suda of design and jewelry company Article 22 took it one step further, producing ethical jewelry in Laos out of upcycled shrapnel.
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Like following a bleach-blonde windswepterie on Instagram—how is every Instagram account suddenly an upcycled t-shirt shop in Malibu or Maui?
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The food scraps are ingredients for Mr. Griffiths' upcycled craft cocktail company, which he started with his wife and business partner, Kelsey Ramage.
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This means the 82-foot-long glass wall is the only part of the entire building that does not consist of upcycled materials.
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YouTuber Terrormink upcycled an old scanner, hard drive, and CD-ROM drive with some Meccano parts and an Arduino to run the whole thing.
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In Nathanson's class, the students — who don't need prior engineering experience — used upcycled solar cells from Jameco that came in a variety of shapes.
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Her company, Bayou with Love, sells apparel and home goods that meet a strict ethical checklist: Everything is local, sustainable, and recycled or upcycled.
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She covers her presents with book jackets, tea towels, upcycled and resewn old garments, and cotton muslin cloth bags to wrap up her presents.
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There are occasional scenarios where returned goods are taken apart and components are recycled, or even "upcycled," like turning shoes into a racetrack, Moore said.
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He's pushed the envelope of the family business in his own unorthodox ways, experimenting with 3-D printed shoes and designs made from upcycled materials.
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The company makes all of its products out of upcycled tarpaulin, a heavy duty material that's often draped as a protective cover over large trucks.
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Anekdot is a Berlin-based, upcycled lingerie company; each garment is made from preconsumer waste materials, which means production leftovers or deadstock fabric and trimmings.
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While growing up in the Bronx, Lee used upcycled materials in creative ways, but she was looking for a way to make a larger impact.
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The Green Guru Gear Dutchy Bike Pannier Bag is made from upcycled materials, is easy to install, and holds up to 22 liters of gear.
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Related: Step Inside a Multicolored Sphere of Upcycled Plastic Memphis Makes a Bet on Unlikely Philanthropists—Millennials | #50StatesofArt Jeff Koons Recycles Birkin Bags as Art
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As part of their deal with the NBA and similar partners, the league or teams buy back the upcycled goods at wholesale to resell themselves.
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Hong Kong-based Etsy shop OOOWORKSHOP is currently selling earrings upcycled from tiny plastic dinosaurs: including the Ankylosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Brontosaurus and even a fierce little Velociraptor.
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The designer, Sergio "Celestino" Guadarrama, uses upcycled materials to reduce waste, and 10% of all profits go toward initiatives to end human trafficking, according to Vogue.
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The latest release in the collection, Renew Denim, uses upcycled jeans that would otherwise end up in a landfill to create the uppers of the sneakers.
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To achieve the look, brand founders Jens Grede and Erik Torstensson used progressively upcycled fabrics from returned denim pieces and overstock from the last three years.
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Inside, you'll find super-cozy plush circle scarves ($395) and yeti cape coats ($990) in an upcycled winter wonderland constructed from electronic waste and other salvage.
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DIY: Upcycled serving tray Mom has probably run out of room on her fridge for your artwork, so it's time to start filling up another room.
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Morten said he planned to build an "earthship," a self-sustaining home made from natural and upcycled materials, which uses tires packed with earth as bricks.
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But this cannot happen through the profit-motivated efforts of corporations selling upcycled public data back to Congress or developing new platforms for citizens to petition Congress.
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"I get emails every day from companies saying, 'Hey, we want to partner with you and sell our reusable straw' or upcycled shoes or whatever," she says.
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He partnered with custom material makers DuFor and Innofil3D to jigsaw 4,000 of them into the hull of this Solar Voyager, which is 15 percent upcycled plastic.
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Travel-related gifts include everything from socks adorned with world maps ($14.95) to stainless steel water bottles ($25) and upcycled backpacks made from old vinyl billboards ($68).
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Unless you are looking for it, you are not likely to end up in the small dining room, in which Indian tabloids have been upcycled as wallpaper.
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Delta also upcycled the prototypes uniforms used for wear-testing to re:loom, an Atlanta organization, where weavers designed and produced handmade products such as rugs and keychains.
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Every gemstone on the tree is "ethically sourced and upcycled" from existing luxury jewelry from fashion brands like Bulgari, Cartier, and Chanel, according to the Robb Report.
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The EMPWR coat is a durable, water-resistant jacket made of Cordura fabric from workwear company Carhartt, upcycled automotive insulation from General Motors, and materials from other donors.
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The University of Miami football team will debut new "environmentally-conscious" uniforms featuring repurposed and "upcycled" materials during the team's opening game against Louisiana State University next month.
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In my experience testing products made with recycled or upcycled materials — including sneakers, jeans, jackets, fleeces, and T-shirts — they've always been marginally more expensive than standard pieces.
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Some endlessly reference it, while others reject it; artist Allan Rubin, on the other hand, renders his artistic heroes into three-dimensional sculptures made from upcycled tin cans.
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The entirely baroque dinner table setting featured cups and plates gilded with a thin rim of gold, all upcycled or recycled, which made me appreciate the work more.
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Since clothes on Depop are typically secondhand or upcycled, Eccles and Short are strategic when pricing so that shoppers can get a fair value while they get profit.
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He asked Celestino Couture — the designer Sergio Guadarrama and the creative director Cade Johnson — whose collections feature upcycled, socially conscious creations, to start sketching options for a gown.
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Each pair of the Ultraboost Parley shoe is made with Parley Ocean Plastic™: upcycled waste from beaches and coastal communities that is intercepted before it reaches the ocean.
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Depending on how much you want to stand out, the Sunday's Best upcycled oxford or this cashmere eye mask — the latter of which will definitely garner the most stares.
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" Each of Nuckols' food boxes are made from upcycled newspaper boxes, and they're all uniquely painted with to-the-point statements like "Free Food" or "Remember the Next Person.
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The Miami Hurricanes' new alternate uniforms, manufactured by Adidas, are "the first-ever football uniforms featuring repurposed and upcycled materials," according to a release from the team and Adidas.
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A rack of upcycled pieces included jackets by Nexusvii refashioned from old Burberry trench coats and vintage jeans with hand-drawn graphics by Jun Inagawa, a Japanese graffiti artist.
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Delta said leather from retired aircraft seats will also be upcycled and woven into select products included in the Delta collection, which will be available for purchase this October.
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Preston upcycled donated sanitation worker uniforms from the past few decades by screenprinting them with both archival department graphics and insignia, as well as the Heron Preston for DSNY logo.
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It includes upcycled garments like a kimono cardigan felted together from two layers of cashmere sweaters ($500) and a silk tunic reassembled from three pairs of wide-leg pants ($198).
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The hand-sewn Elizabethan gown, which incorporated plenty of pink, was created by Celestino Couture — the designer Sergio Guadarrama and the creative director Cade Johnson — which works with upcycled fabrics.
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There were carved wooden utensils from Jim Talley, upcycled pieces from Bernadette's Handmade Jewelry, prints from Craig Peterson created on coffee-stained paper, and playful robot-centric art from Lauren Briere.
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He didn't just recycle his themes, he upcycled his fabrics, melding silk ties into striped skirts, leather bombers into a bubble mini, and false-fronting jackets onto the top of corsets.
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It's made of upcycled sailcloth, and its form is informed by a NASA bag that Neil Armstrong used to bring his personal effects back from the Moon, known as the McDivitt Purse.
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Liz Haffner, co-owner of Azu Restaurant and a former Hollywood wardrobe stylist, creates "hippie care packages," gift sets that combine upcycled wine bottle candles with regional specialties like Moon Valley marmalade.
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The audience members, many of whom had upcycled garbage bags as impromptu ponchos, were sloshing, too, but they stayed until Oskar Eustis, the Public's artistic director, damply admitted defeat around 9 p.m.
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Amenities include a cafe, conference rooms, a garden, modern guest rooms (with upcycled luggage racks from Austrian trains and artwork by the neighboring art academy), live events, Sunday brunch and dinner parties.
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The proudly dowdy space with colorful windowpanes draws upward of 2288,26468 visitors every week and shows off upcycled architectural designs, block-printed T-shirts and seasonal bites (with red and green chiles).
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A product that uses an upcycled item or items qualifies as sustainable, but might not necessarily qualify as eco-friendly if the up-cycled items used in that product are not eco-friendly.
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Burrichter designed a series of one-off towels, made from a patchwork of upcycled ACE Hotel cast-offs, dyed in a rainbow of nine "nudes" that match the skin tones of his friends.
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Classics If humble chinos become the height of fashion next spring, credit must be given to Maurizio Donadi, the creative director of Atelier & Repairs, a Los Angeles brand known for its upcycled collection.
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What makes this house so special is that its residents built it with their own hands — using 1,300 used car tires, 7,500 old glass bottles, a lot of clay, and other upcycled materials.
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This time, other than two upcycled fake furs pieced together from remnants past, she mostly seemed to be flitting between ideas: louche tailoring and scarflike graphic silk dresses; big, blouson shoulders and feathery swirls.
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Of course, as a champion of environmentally and ethically conscious fashion, Stella McCartney's work will also be highlighted, with her menswear and womenswear displayed next to an upcycled dress made by British designer Christopher Raeburn.
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In 2013 it created a "Repurpose with Purpose" program that has upcycled, downcycled and recycled nearly 900,000 pounds of discarded leather seat covers and other materials from planes into soccer balls, shoes, handicrafts and jewelry.
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Elsewhere, he turned Swarovski crystals into appliqués, added fringe made from salvaged plastic to coats and incorporated Liberty prints and upcycled Fiorucci denim, showcasing both his deep love of craft and his interest in sustainability.
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This champion of Freedom and Upcycled Wine Receptacles was first seen at 6:30 AM, and apparently made slow but majestic circles across the pavement until at least 9 AM, when officers arrived on the scene.
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Last November, Outland's founder and CEO James Bartle told me that his brand uses organic cotton and vegetable dyes, and the manufacturing process includes using upcycled jean pockets and recycled packing materials to reduce environmental impact.
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Underneath a chandelier made of upcycled votives, she poked at some scent diffusers, quizzed a saleswoman on how to remove wax from glass and read the label of a foaming body wash in a snooty French accent.
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A mash-up of '50s, '60s, and '70s florals was spotted at Rave Review, the cult Stockholm-based brand founded by Josephine Bergqvist and Livia Schück in 2017 which makes all its clothes out of upcycled fabrics.
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Last year, when Showtime first announced it would be rebooting "The L Word" series, it initially seemed like yet another example of a beloved old piece of intellectual property being upcycled into a shinier version of itself.
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Of course, some argue that wearing upcycled vintage fur still promotes the wearing — and thereby wanting — of any type of fur, but with faux fur looking more and more convincing, that argument doesn't hold up well to scrutiny.
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PARIS (Reuters) - British designer Stella McCartney showcased multi-colored "upcycled" dresses made of vintage T-shirts at her Parisian catwalk show on Monday, where U.S. media mogul Oprah Winfrey put in a rare appearance on the front row.
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But the place that captured the Berkeley spirit as much as any place I went was Urban Ore; part salvage yard, part thrift store, it's one of the most incredible places I've visited for recycled and upcycled goods.
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One that is rarely discussed, but that the non-upcycled bits of Ms. Hearst's collection made clear: If you make something signature, something women love, then you have made a sustainable garment because you have made something non-disposable.
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Items in this collection are expected to drop online soon, with prices ranging from $60 for upcycled T-shirts and $80 for Heron Preston x DSNY short-sleeved styles, between $100 and $120 for long-sleeved and button-up silhouettes.
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The fast-expanding Ladadika district has become a booze-drenched labyrinth of small cobbled streets and squares where tumbledown townhouses and industrial buildings are being upcycled into a whirl of slick lounges, rooftop retreats, live-music venues and trendy restaurants.
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Threads made from spider silk, upcycled yarn, stem-cell-engineered leather and diamonds sourced from above the ground elicited both curiosity and Instagram posts, as did a robotic barman, pouring mojitos ordered via tablets, much to the excitement of the crowd.
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For her senior thesis, Ms. Meyer experimented with laser-printing news stories on upcycled denim, and immediately after school — she graduated with a B.F.A. in art and design — she founded her own line, Denimcratic, a jeans label with a political bent.
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The suit is made entirely out of these upcycled materials, from the belts that act as the backpack's straps to the large hood that can block out glaring lights homeless people often have to contend with while sleeping on the street.
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Throughout the studios are displays of the Morgan's connection to the community found in the form of details like hand-printed posters, upcycled movie theater doors as studio doors, and a cabinet filled with a donated collection of antique watermarks.
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To create this participatory work, Aguiñiga and her team walked from car to car on either side of 18 border checkpoints in California, Arizona, and Texas, inviting passengers to tie a knot in upcycled bikini and dress straps as evidence of their crossing.
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He claims the idea for the upcycled ice cream came from a conversation with the organization's founder and executive director, Tracy Oseran, who hopes to put a dent in child hunger through some of the proceeds from Salt & Straw's exclusive "trash" menu.
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Then, two weeks ago, at its fall 2019 show in Milan, the label upcycled its most powerful reliable, the Teddy Bear, this time in the classic fawn of stuffed animals but also in strident hues of cyan blue, cerulean and corn yellow.
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Only also has a continuing relationship with the City of New York, making collaborative pieces like hats and T-shirts that are more proletarian versions of Heron Preston's collaboration with the city's Sanitation Department, which featured modified, upcycled T-shirts and sweatshirts.
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CD: Well, back in the early days when I first founded Redress, we actually were promoting sustainable fashion in all of its many forms, which could have been organic, sustainable raw materials, upcycled, recycled, women's cooperatives, fair trade, et cetera, any type of sustainability.
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Sustainable design Nearly everything (bar, tables and chairs) was made from reclaimed lumber, and much of it was upcycled: Wood shavings from milling the posts were woven into the ceiling, and scraps from the dining room went to build raised beds at the greenhouse.
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Her clothing label, Imitation of Christ, founded with Matt Damhave in 2000, with Chloë Sevigny as creative director, was a raffish hybrid of performance art and fashion show, a collection of upcycled vintage clothes that was in its way a precursor to the sustainability movement.
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Mr. Jacquemus is often discussed as one of the leaders of a new generation of French designers; another is Marine Serre, who owes a great debt to Martin Margiela for her one-off garments smartly upcycled from fancy toweling, Formula One castoffs and key chains.
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Metternich traveled to Italy to work with a fabric mill on a custom material to use in Cocodune's suits, which contains proprietary threads made of "one part upcycled materials and one part extra-light Lycra, instead of using Spandex, which 99% of swim brands use," he explains.
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His unique approach to record production has led Dixon to work with adventurous artists like The Flaming Lips and Aerial Pink to produce limited edition records cut into unorthodox materials like upcycled plexiglass, laserdiscs, picnic plates, CD-Rs, mirrors, placemats, X-rays, and even 90% cacao chocolate.
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He's glad that products he's found through the site have sustainable bona fides, but it's pure economics that have made him an evangelist; one of his favorite purchases was an Elvis & Kresse messenger bag, which is made from upcycled hoses decommissioned by the British fire brigade.
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Components (everything from cockpit instrumentation and the outer shell of the plane known as skin, to seats and food service equipment) in good condition can be used to equip other planes or are recycled or upcycled into things like beverages cans, clothing, and home and office furnishings.
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With its suave aesthetic—all polished upcycled wood, dim lighting, and artfully arrayed bric-a-brac—The Night Rooster would feel right at home in London or Manhattan, were it not for the fact that the concise cocktail menu draws deeply on the fruits and flavors of Indonesia.
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A Lydia Courteille octopus bague ring ($26,26) and a Viktor & Rolf haute couture sweater adorned with upcycled tulle ruffles, buttons and crystals from past collections ($3,500) are among the treasures at Maison de Mode, one of 11 pop-ups at the new OMA-designed luxury souk, Faena Bazaar.
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Sandhotel This cluster of upcycled buildings and new structures united in the hotel-as-village model incorporates a street-facing haberdashery opened in 1918, as well as the bakery Sandholt, manned by a team of fifth-generation bakers and loved for its hearty rye, kamut and quinoa breads.
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Mr. Rael and Ms. San Fratello are committed to democratizing the process for their young acolytes and others, making the point that 3-D printing from "upcycled" materials otherwise destined for the trash heap, and forgoing the purchase of drywall and other construction supplies, is a more sustainable design approach.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Limp slices of bread smeared with butter, a single sausage lounging in orange soup, a presentation of pork knuckles resembling discarded brains — this is far from the stuff you'd find on the menu of your local farm-to-table eatery filled with upcycled furniture.
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Prices start at about 25 pounds ($32), and each product comes with a "Why It's Good" tab listing certain vital statistics: whether it has been made by an artisan, for example, or is a fair-trade product, and if the garment is more than 95 percent organic, vegan, or made using upcycled fabric.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads SANTA MONICA — The ambience of a block party pervaded last weekend's 13th Annual Santa Monica Airport ArtWalk as the all-female mariachi band Las Colibrí strummed their guitars, hungry art goers queued up at numerous food trucks, and kids learned how to make jewelry out of upcycled office supplies.
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It was established during Prohibition in 1927 and was beautifully refurbished in 2016, with its original wooden lanes still intact, sawed-off pin holders upcycled into delightful chandeliers, and handsome leather couches that serve as gathering points for house cocktails from its two horseshoe-shaped bars, as well as wood-fired pizzas and live music.
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From a rise in sustainably sourced pieces (vintage quilts and upcycled plastic art) to a continued focus on clean minimalism (Japanese-inspired accents and feng shui plant-filled rooms) and even modern farmhouse or prairie fare (rustic-chic and made from natural materials), the predicted home trends ahead are all buildable staples that radiate with reimagined intention.
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And though he managed to let the stuffing out in slouchy wide wale corduroys that hung off the hips and puddled on the floor paired with cropped knits and tweedy blazers, in tailored 1970s greatcoats and patched upcycled leather, there was still too much residue of the old bourgeois loafer set to really signal a new dawn.
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For his presentation at New York Men's Day, he edited his ideas down to a tight grouping of deceptively simple and durable stuff: a cropped and boxy patch-pocket sports coat, a slightly off-kilter denim barn jacket, some letter carrier trousers, a coat upcycled from the same fabric used to make uniforms for the California Highway Patrol.
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In between was a leather and lace coat with actual flowers preserved in its folds, a sleeveless dress covered in swirling sketches made by students at Central Saint Martins and hand-embroidered on by every member of her atelier, like a sewing circle of old, and some exactingly cut black tailcoats spilling acres of lace upcycled from old collections.
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In this era of high-tech, digitized, hyperlinked visual media, a small but salient portion of artists and designers have seen fit to stage returns to ostentatiously analog, off-line, slow, and decidedly un-precious materials and processes—from a surge in interest in hand-dirtying ceramics to the embrace of reclaimed, upcycled, discarded ephemera in collage, assemblage, and installation works.
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Read more: Everlane's upcycled knit boots fit like a glove — here's what 5 women thought about its new sock-like ankle bootFinding the perfect fall boot can require a host of high-maintenance ingredients: a full moon, the blood of scarred ankles, and your tacit compliance to endure a never-ending phantom pressure of pinched toes for the entirety of the season.
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Known for its popular line of minimalist plant-based sneakers, which are produced in ethically run factories in the Fortaleza and Pôrto Alegre regions of Brazil, Veja, founded in 53, was one of the first brands to upend the sneaker market by using sustainably sourced raw materials, including organic cotton, wild rubber and upcycled fish leather, a byproduct discarded by freshwater fish farms.
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The filmmakers seem more invested in positioning the movie to be eaten up, regurgitated and upcycled on Twitter than in making a point about its protagonist, a lonely woman named Sue Ann (nicknamed Ma) who lives in a predominantly white town in Ohio, working at a dead-end job and at war with herself and the trauma of her past.
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While the British Fashion Council failed to address the industry's environmental responsibility by way of a robust pledge (unlike Copenhagen Fashion Week, whose impressive action plan gave us hope for the future), the institution does play host to designers who are taking action and contributing to a positive fashion industry, from Richard Malone's new regenerative farm to Preen's upcycled and recycled wool and cotton.
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" Dambrot continues: "I think people in the audience and marketplace as well as artists and makers are attracted to upcycled/recycled/non-traditional materials like cardboard, knitting, ceramics, and obsolete tools or technologies, again in a kind of Arte Povera-style analog-backlash model which can be either deliberate or intuitive, but which is very much related to the use of one's actual hands as a means of production of actual objects.
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