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Wearing fake fur is such a “no-brainer” for Ke$ha that the “Tik Tok” singer is developing her own line of faux-fur clothing. “I don’t condemn people for their choices but my own personal choice is that I prefer to wear fake fur,” she told The Sun on Tuesday. “There are so many options that are very real-feeling and -looking that aren’t harming the animal, so it’s a no-brainer for me.” As Humane Society International’s first Global Ambassador, Ke$ha is also working to raise awareness about the mistreatment of street dogs. “I’ve always loved animals since I was little,” she said. “I just feel super-connected to them. The most enlightening thing I can do is be around animals.”

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Think of Deo Perfume Candy as a breath mint for your entire body. A collaboration between Beneo, an American nutrition company, and Bulgarian candy-maker Alpi, the stink-fighting “edible deodorant” is a rose-scented boiled sweet that claims to leave you smelling like a floral arrangement. The source of the aroma? Geraniol, a natural, colorless liquid found in plants such as rose, lavender, and vanilla. (It’s also the primary component of many essential oils.) Like garlic, geraniol contains chemicals that cannot be digested. Instead, it’s secreted through the skin’s pores, resulting in a light, rosy fragrance that allegedly lasts for hours.

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Women’s clothing line One Colour seeks to support social justice through ethical fashion. A collaboration between Australian and Kenyan designers, their newest line, Peripheral Vision II, helps to empower women in Africa through long-term employment while also creating elegant, and casual pieces. Ranging from $40-110, the label is affordable as well as sustainable.

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TerraCycle has made a name for itself by turning landfill-bound objects into one-of-a-kind accessories, and its newest line of bags is no different. Stitched together from decommissioned U.S. Postal Service cotton-canvas mail sacks, each upcycled pouch and tote features markings from the original carryall, along with distressing, light fraying, and patch marks from years of service. Plus, all iPad cases are lined remnant Ultrasuede scraps—all the better to keep your precious cargo safe through rain, sleet, and gloom of night.

+ Upcycled Mail Tote $79; Upcycled Mail iPad Case $55; Upcycled Mail Pouch $14 at UncommonGoods

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Clothes that “talk” to Facebook aren’t just fun and games. They could also provide first responders with critical, real-time information in times of emergency. With this in mind, a group of students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology developed a jacket that uses a Bluetooth-enabled cellphone to communicate with the Internet, particularly social networks that can help large groups coordinate their efforts. Designed to be worn by firefighters and rescue workers, who typically don’t have time to fuss with additional gear, the jacket features a built-in screen on its sleeve and a vibrating collar that alerts the wearer of incoming messages.

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As Emmy Rossum and Zooey Deschanel like to remind us, cotton is the fabric of our lives. Yet its snow-white facade masks a less-than-rosy reality. Leah Borromeo, a journalist and filmmaker based in London, wants to unravel the complex web of “debts, pesticides, and suicides” that surrounds the fibers of our clothing. Nearly 300,000 Indian cotton farmers have killed themselves over the years to escape the poverty trap of industrialized agriculture, some by drinking the very pesticides with which they farm, according to Borromeo. We caught up with the self-proclaimed troublemaker to learn more about her crowd-funded documentary, The Cotton Film: Dirty White Gold, the human cost of cheap fashion, and why we need greater traceability and accountability in the fashion industry.

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Livia Firth’s Green Carpet Challenge has received the royal seal of approval. In a letter read by Firth at the launch of “The Green Cut” at London Fashion Week in September, Prince Charles praised the initiative for bringing the British Fashion Council and the British Film Institute “under the banner of sustainability.” The GCC is particularly heartening because of its “uncanny ability to show that living in harmony with the environment and respecting nature can go hand-in-hand with the most beautiful clothes,” wrote the Prince of Wales. “After all, it’s only by inspiring people that a sustainable future is not about sackcloth and ashes, but is about attaining an infinitely more balanced approach to life that works in harmony in nature once again, that we will stand a chance of securing a stable environment for our children and grandchildren.”

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If you thought Jil Sander’s $290 lunch sack bordered on the ridiculous, just wait till you get a load of Aki Oto’s paper-bag blazer. Cobbled together from a bunch of used shopping bags, a vintage jacket, gobs of varnish, and a strip of duct tape (yes, duct tape), the battered and sodden-looking number conveys that fresh, just-rolled-out-of-a-dumpster look that every Rich Kid of Instagram craves. The price? $480—a bargain by billionaire hobo standards, we’re sure.

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