Friday, 29 August 2014

Gift Your Gear This September!

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You might recall we've talked before about Gift Your Gear, the brilliant charity that accepts unwanted outdoor clothing and donates it t...
Wednesday, 27 August 2014

The Ice Bucket Challenge: Water Way To Donate To Charity

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You might, if you've paid any attention to the news or social media over the last few weeks, have seen someone having a bucket of ice ...
Friday, 22 August 2014

Pagoda Carving: Past And Present Bring A Brighter Future For Vietnamese Artisans

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Saigon Socialite, a company founded by Vietnamese financier-turned-fashionista LanVy Nguyen, is melding sleek modern leatherwork and trad...
Wednesday, 20 August 2014

Loitering Within Tent

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We're deep in the throes of festival season. V rocked Chelmsford last weekend, and my personal favourite, the Reading and Leeds Fest...
Friday, 15 August 2014

Keeping Fashion Out Of The Forests

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We're all agreed, I hope, that deforestation is A Bad Thing. Vast swathes of the green lungs of the world are disappearing daily; to fee...
Wednesday, 13 August 2014

Neil Young Stands Up For Organic Cotton

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Neil Young has always been one of those artists that has gone his own way. For his critics, that shows him to be curmudgeonly, intractable...
Friday, 8 August 2014

The Great Recovery

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You're a fashion designer, and you're passionate about sustainability. You have a vision: a range of clothes that's completely ...
Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Material Girl: Robin Barcus Slolina And A Dress Made From Pine Cones

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Here at The Pier, we're used to seeing clothes made out of all sorts of unusual material. Heck, at Pier32 we even sell some. Fancy a ...
Friday, 1 August 2014

Logo Removal Service

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We've all got them. Those t-shirts we picked up at a conference, or freebies we snagged at a concert. Corporate giveaways that are per...
Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Matalan: Keeping their hands in their pockets over Rana Plaza

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As the deadline for the first tranche of payments to the families affected by the Rana Plaza disaster looms, it's become clear that on...