global garbs A SUSTAINABLE FASHION MAGAZINE Issue 1 | November 2020
AN INTRODUCTION TO
SUSTAINABLE FASHION WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE BEAUTY?
STARTING A BRAND? Learn from our expert helping small brands create ethically made products and hear from the brands actually doing it.
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Introduction + Editor's Letter A NEW type of fashion magazine...
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Building a Brand during COVID-19 with Sonderlier & LIYA
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Empowering at Risk Youth An ethical jewelry entrepreneur's journey with Kind Karma
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What is Sustainable Fashion? A brief introduction
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Eco-friendly Sleep We all need this mattress | Sponsored by ECOSLEEP
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Connecting Brands to Ethical Factories An interview with Jessica Kelly of Thr3efold
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What Makes a Factory Ethical? by Jessica Kelly
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Meet the Designers: Sarep & Rose, PRISM, Cee Cee's Closet
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Fall Essentials
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What is Sustainable Beauty? by Lin Chen of Pink Moon
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A Beginners Guide to Veganism by Kelci DeFrancesco of Positive Plate
Introducing
global garbs - a Sustainable Fashion Magazine
If you’ve been following Global Garbs the
Fashion and beauty is something that
blog, you know that it’s evolved over time
touches every woman and it can
from a generic trend-focused blog to
oftentimes be the starting point into
highlighting emerging designers and
environmentalism.
brands in the sustainable fashion industry. You can read more about this
Once you begin to understand where your
journey here.
clothing is made, and how it’s made, you can easily go down the rabbit hole of
The goal now with Global Garbs the
learning more about every industry and its
Magazine is simply to expand beyond the
impact on people and the planet. This is
blog. In a perfect world, we could pick up
the goal of Global Garbs.
a magazine with curated products from small businesses produced ethically and
Our mission is to both inspire and educate
made sustainably, but that’s just not the
while also helping you get curious about
case. In fact, there aren’t many
other related topics.
publications at all that exist of this nature. Whether you are just starting out on your In each publication, our goal is for you to
sustainable journey or have been living
be both inspired and educated. There will
eco-friendly for decades, we hope this
be product and trend suggestions just like
magazine can bring some new conscious
any typical fashion magazine, but you’ll
insights to your everyday life.
also learn more about the sustainable fashion industry from leaders in the field and the creators who are actually building their own brands. And as always, we will continue to shine a light on the small brands making a change in this evolving world of sustainability. Whether it’s learning more about apparel made in ethical factories or clean beauty products, the goal is to be inspired by these stories and understand more about how these industries can create change and also the role we play as consumers. While the main focus will always be fashion, you can also expect some new topics in the future such as veganism, zero-waste, minimalism, and general conscious living.
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global garbs Editor-in-chief Lauren Tanaka-Fortune
In partnership with Contributors & Interviews
Jessica Kelly of Thr3efold Xi Chen Deanna Cook Laurinda Lee-Retter Robin Sirleaf Helen Sage Lee Rachel Lee Uchenna Ngwudo Chioma Ngwudo Lin Chen Kelci DeFrancesco
SPONSORED BY
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Cover Photo by Photographer Model
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laurentanaka@globalgarbs.com www.globalgarbs.com
NOV 2020 - ISSUE 1
I wanted to create a magazine that you can feel good about the brands and purchases you make...a publication to be inspired by that supports small (especially women-owned) ethical businesses.
Letter from the Editor If you had asked me ten years ago what
After transitioning from just a “regular”
sustainable fashion was, I probably would
fashion blog in 2017 to focusing more on
have answered somewhere along the
sustainability, I started to be inspired
lines of, “clothing made from hemp or
once again. I love supporting brands and
linen?” Or, “don’t people who wear
influencers who are truly trying to make
sustainable fashion wear khaki pants and
a change in this industry. I see these
birkenstocks?” Yes, this is a terrible
change-makers as leaders in our field and
stereotype. But if you remember, not too
while I know that a sustainable fashion
long ago we had this same stereotype
magazine isn’t necessarily going to
surrounding people who ate all organic
change the world, I know that the people I
foods, and had their own vegetable
am highlighting are. I also know that in
gardens. Now, I pretty much buy all
order to create real change we have to
organic and also aspire to have my own
first change our mindset and perspective.
vegetable garden (one day it will happen
We have to rethink entire systems, and
).
demand large companies do better. But we have to work together in order to
Having worked in the fashion industry
create this change. So thank you for
for over a decade, I had acknowledged
coming on this journey with me.
the waste and questionable labor standards with factories we had worked
Cheers to you and a more sustainable
with, but it wasn’t until Rana Plaza that
future!
something started to shift within me. Many of us who work in the fashion industry experience this when we realize how toxic both environmentally and humanly this industry can be. I knew that I (most likely) wouldn’t spend the rest of my career working in an industry that was so harmful for some of the
Lauren Tanaka - Fortune
world’s most vulnerable countries.
Global Garbs founder
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What is sustainable fashion? by Lauren Tanaka-Fortune
What exactly is sustainable fashion? If you’re reading this magazine, you probably already know a thing or two about what sustainable fashion entails, but let’s dive deeper into some of the basics and why this is such an important topic. When you think of sustainable fashion, do you envision an older person wearing
It says:
hemp clothing and some Birkenstocks? This was pretty much the stereotypical
“Sustainable fashion is a movement and
view not so long ago. But ever since the
process of fostering change to fashion
late nineties and early 2000s or so there’s been a huge shift in sustainable fashion and the sustainable fashion movement especially among Millennials. But what exactly is sustainable fashion?
products and the fashion system towards greater ecological integrity and social justice. Sustainable fashion concerns more than just addressing fashion textiles or products. It comprises addressing the whole system of
This most frequently asked question can
fashion. This means dealing with
be summed in one word: a movement.
interdependent social, cultural, ecological,
Wikipedia actually has the best-simplified
and financial systems.[1] “
statement:
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Meet the Designers These three designers are paving the way for ethical, sustainable & diverse fashion
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