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May Mauveine
@maymauveine.com
Documenting sustainable fashion projects, artists, and organizations through photography.*
📍NYC-based.

*This will not be perfect.
🟣 Glad to see some great independent stores highlighted. Can confirm that Front General Store is a must-visit.
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 AM
🟣 “Eventually, I decided to try something new. Before buying anything, I’d put it in my basket, wait 24 hours, then decide whether to check out. The best part of this method was that it gave me space to think – something I’d never done before.”
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🟣 “But the target is not only a company. It is the emerging system that Amazon now anchors: a techno-authoritarian order that fuses the power of Big Tech with the prerogatives of the far right…”
November 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Gorgeous.
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
🟣 Glad to have more ethical fashion creators on here!
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Culture is for sale to the tackiest bidders. ⬆️

In addition, Lauren Sánchez Bezos is funding sustainable fashion projects — with no irony whatsoever — to help launder the couple’s image. ⬇️

🟣 the-ethos.co/lauren-sanch...
Why Lauren Sánchez Bezos Thinks Fashion Needs a Climate Reckoning
The Bezos Earth Fund vice-chair Lauren Sánchez Bezos is positioning fashion as her next frontier — and perhaps its climate reckoning.
the-ethos.co
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🟣 A good thread. 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Ticker tape parade please 🤩 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Rose 🌹 !!!
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Woooo!!!!!
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
🟣 Wish we could go back to illustrations on magazine covers like these vintage Georges Lepape Vogue covers:

condenaststore.com/collections/...
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
🟣 “In contrast to larger markets like New York City or Los Angeles, Oakland’s sneaker scene revolves around indie creators and their grassroots innovations. It is less fixated on celebrity endorsements and sneaker collecting or reselling than it is on social commentary and identity.”

How lovely! 🥰
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
🟣 “Her collections look towards the regenerative framework set up by the Fibreshed movement, who are going some way to creating alternative fibre systems within regenerative practices, building resilient ecosystems.”

Glad Phoebe English is still going strong:

www.phoebeenglish.com/sustainable-...
SUSTAINABLE CLOTHING — PHOEBE ENGLISH
www.phoebeenglish.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
🟣 "Some people work until midnight, one factory owner told us. They want to earn more money, he said… After all, in London, Chicago, Singapore, Dubai and so many other places, someone is hunting for their next bargain.” 🤨

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Shein: Inside the Chinese factories fuelling the company's success
Workers making clothes for the fast fashion giant tell the BBC they labour for up to 75 hours a week.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🟣 “The confusing system allows Amazon to skirt responsibility for its massive delivery operations.” ⬆️

Subcontracting allows corporations to avoid accountability all along the supply chain, especially in manufacturing… ⬇️

loening.org/project/why-...
Why subcontracting fails workers in the fashion industry - Löning - Human Rights and Responsible Business
Recent investigations have once again exposed troubling labour practices in the European luxury sector. Several leading fashion houses have been found in violation of Italian labour laws for subcontra...
loening.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
🟣 “Workers that the public sees making deliveries for Amazon, whether in a van, on a truck, or riding a bike, are not actually employed by the Bezos-founded company. Instead they work for a "Delivery Service Partner…"
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
🟣 “Furthermore, the globalization of a neoliberal perspective, emphasizing individualism and material pursuits, mirrors the challenges posed by unemployment on mental wellbeing.”

This certainly hits close to home.
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
🟣 Curiously, the midsole foam for the 100-mile shoe is of Pebax — normally wouldn’t consider that the most durable of sneaker foams.

That supercritical process must really make an improvement.

www.tracksmith.com/products/m-t...
Men's Tracksmith Eliot Range | Tracksmith
A trail running shoe with a responsive nylon rock plate, Merino lining and Vibram® traction.
www.tracksmith.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis
www.fitnyc.edu
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🟣 “…preserving one’s humanity is at the heart of all of Tyler’s work.

“I wanted to maintain my own individuality, knowing that I was an innocent person,” he said. “And I want people to know … even if you’re guilty, there's a chance for change. Never miss out on that opportunity, no matter what.””
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🟣 “Extreme weather is a growing threat to fashion supply chains.”
November 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
No.
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
🟣 True.
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
🟣 Who is this actually for?
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
🟣 “Now it is just time for the audience — the readership — to really put its money where its mouth is… Really get serious about trying to maintain the media that is still around that has a commitment for centering communities that are never going to get the kind of coverage that they deserve.”
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM