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Ethical Fashion Blog
About a month ago I had the pleasure of posing for Mata’s Spring/Summer 2012 catalog shoot. It was on location in New Buffalo, MI which I had never visited before, and it was absolutely perfect. The sun shining, the sand between my toes, and the clothes…the clothes! Mata is showing bright colors for the spring and summer, and it makes me happy.
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When we first traveled to India in 2003/2004, there were several books we read that gave us insight into the status of women in Indian society. One book in particular still stands out – May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India by Elisabeth Bumiller. The book really provides a thorough investigation of the diversity – and commonality – of the Indian woman’s experience, and it became a big influence in why we do what we do here at Mata. After I read it, I thought I knew pretty much all there was to know about the hardships and downright horrible treatment women in India face, from arranged marriage and female infanticide to bride burning and the expectation to throw themselves on their husbands’ funeral pyre. Well, I didn’t know about this…
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It wasn’t long ago that I was visiting India for the first time and falling in love with the sheer wonder of the MARKET….so much gorgeous, colorful, kitschy, one of a kind stuff can be found on travel adventures. This website, Latitude, is pure shoppers’ zen in my book: the founder spent a lot of time traveling Asia and collecting one-of-a-kind items and then turned her passion into a web business.
Calling all Mata fans in Bloomington, Indiana…!!! Mata’s coming to town and walking the runway. Students at IU are putting on a fair trade fashion show and doing their part in giving fair trade a chance to shine!
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Congratulations to Human Rights Watch for their successful campaign to have New York Fashion Week cancel Gulnara Karimova’s show, daughter of Uzbekistan’s long-standing dictator. She was scheduled to present her spring line on the prestigious runway, but HRW and other rights organizations intervened to voice their concerns about her role in her father’s tyrannical government.
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