About
FASHION LOVES PEOPLE: THE BLOG
Fashion Loves People is a blog about ethical fashion… that loves you back!
My goal is to help us find things that are as stylish as they are socially responsible — to find awesome things to wear that respect the environment and the people who made them — without spending a fortune.
Every dollar we spend is a vote cast for the kind of products we want in the kind of world we want. I say, vote for good! Everything featured on this blog has passed my own dollar vote filter.
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FASHION LOVES PEOPLE: THE APPAREL
In November 2009, as an experiment in being a small business owner in the eco-fashion world, I partnered with J. Kirk Davis, a Kansas City-based artist, creative consultant and educator whose work was featured in Women’s Wear Daily and NYC showrooms in the 1970s and 1980s, to launch a small line of organic knits printed with Kirk’s vintage fashion illustrations.
Each shirt style has been designed by me and Heather Hale, one of my most talented friends, who spends her days designing at Hallmark Cards and her nights and weekends designing album art, brand identities, wedding invitations and the like, all while preparing to adopt a little boy from Ethiopia in the next year or so. Check out Heather’s equally sweet design blog, Twine & Twig, and adoption blog, Love is Waiting.
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ABOUT ME, JANETTE CRAWFORD
I’m a blogger, journalist and copywriter who loves writing about good design with a good backstory. I’m all about expressing myself through what I wear without spending a fortune, but in the summer of 2007, I became really convicted about the *true* costs of cheap clothes, which often harm both people and the environment — for every $5 t-shirt, farmers, millers, sewers, transporters and their bosses all have to get paid. So who is really paying the price? I started writing this blog a few months later.
My day job is writing for and marketing Storenvy.com, the free online store and social shopping community supporting indie artists everywhere, which my husband Jon founded in 2008.
I’ve written in the past for Worldchanging.com, PopTech.org and a smattering of regional magazines. Some of my favorite articles have been about the resurrection of Nau, voting with your dollar, the Eames dining chair and the green rebuilding of Greensburg, KS.
In 2008 I helped organize the first-ever Carrotmob Kansas City, where hundreds of Kansas Citians bought groceries to help a local business convert to greener energy use. I’m a Big Sister through Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City. (I don’t live in KC anymore, but sisterhood transcends states! I love you, Jayd. :)
I studied magazine journalism at the University of Kansas and in the future might like to teach environmental journalism at the university level and/or write a book or two. Who knows. I grew up on a wheat farm in the middle of Kansas.
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Thanks for reading!