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☆ Why Emily Blunt’s turnip dress is part of a fashion tradition
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Turnips, radishes, potatoes… This is not the beginning of Emily Blunt’s shopping list, but rather the items that appeared all over her latest red carpet outfit. And while radishes rarely get a turn on the red carpet, fashion has been committed to making sure we get our greens lately. “Luxury fashion houses are including more and more food/ grocery adjacent items this season because food is a luxury category,” wrote master’s student @kfesteryga. And while we may be seeing more food-themed fashion on runways and in retail stores, the reality is edible patterns are far from new. The turnip, potato and radish two piece is just one of Anderson's many food-themed fashion creations.

Persons: Emily Blunt’s, Guy, ”, Blunt, Ganni, Loewe, Jonathon Anderson didn’t, Jess Cartner, Morley, piquantés, Gabbana's, Chris Moore, Hubert de Givenchy, Cynthia Rowley, Phoebe Philo, Marc Piasecki, JW Anderson —, “ Organizations: CNN, Northwestern University, Gabbana, Milan Fashion, Getty, Vogue Locations: Paris, Danish, New York, ”, artichoke, Gabbana's Milan, TikTok

☆ This faux-leather jacket is made by bacteria
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“A yellow leather jacket” might not be your first answer, but it’s exactly what came out of a collaboration between Danish fashion brand Ganni and Mexican biomaterials company Polybion. “We were impressed by the fact that a lot of people love the jacket because the material did not resemble leather,” said Alexis Gómez-Ortigoza, Polybion’s co-founder. “We isolated our first bacteria from that drink.”Kombucha is an increasingly popular fermented tea drink, and the bacterial biomass used to make the jacket, called Celium, comes from that jar. “We feed the bacteria with fruit waste, which is extremely abundant here in central Mexico,” said Gómez-Ortigoza. Although it shares some similarities with leather, Celium is an organic material that's meant to have its own look and feel.

Persons: ”, Alexis Gómez, Polybion’s, “, Axel, Bárbara González, Gómez, Polybion, Ortigoza, Lauren Bartley, Ganni, Michelle Obama, Bartley, Kate Goldsworthy, who’s, Kate Fletcher Organizations: CNN, Ganni’s Sustainability, University of the Arts London, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Oslo Metropolitan University Locations: Mexican, Mexico, Celium, France, Norway

☆ Your side hustle could be sitting in your closet. Here's how one pilates instructor made nearly $10,000 from her designer dresses.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She uses the app By Rotation to rent out dresses and accessories from her closet. For example, a three-day dress rental for a summer wedding can cost between $78 and $450, depending on the label. Hollishead has made £7,637 in rental sales, or about $9,812, on the By Rotation app in the past year. Renting my clothes is the ideal side hustle for me because I love buying dressesHollishead rents out her designer dresses on the By Rotation app. Here's how a rental on the By Rotation app works:Hollishead suggests writing thorough descriptions of each item you rent out.

Persons: Charlie Hollishead, Hollishead, Zimmermann, I've, you've, Ganni, Leslie Amon, Charlotte Simone Organizations: Service, Ascot Locations: London, Wall, Silicon

☆ I'm a pilates instructor who has earned nearly $10,000 by renting out my designer dresses. My dresses pay for themselves and then some.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Persons: Charlie Hollishead, Hollishead, Zimmermann, I've, you've, Ganni, Leslie Amon, Charlotte Simone Organizations: Service, Ascot Locations: London, Wall, Silicon

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