All The Best Looks From The 2020 Fashion Awards
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It’s the biggest night in British fashion, and last night’s award ceremony saw some of our favourite babes in fashion get suited and booted for Vogue’s Fashion Awards. With that, we’ve rounded up the looks we are LIVING for. Let’s go give compliments like a drunk girl in a bathroom, shall we? Everyone, take note. A fluffy cropped jumper and maxi skirt might not scream fashion awards on paper, but IRL Winnie NAILS it, as always. Our forever Babe of Missguided Jourdan Dunn killed it in this orange floor-length Versace dress and strappy gold heels. Izabel got lit with a midi, plunging sequin gold dress and barely there heels. Russian model Irina wow’d in this Atelier Versace white gown and slicked ponytail. Please, let’s take a moment to appreciate Anja Rubik’s hair, makeup, dress, EVERYTHING. Adwoa not only won Model of the Year at last night’s awards, but looked an absolute babe as always. Hailey Baldwin kept it simple but so SO sexy in a mini LBD, strappy heels and slicked back hair. Zendaya flashed some underboob in this velvet star embellished dress, and we are HERE for it. We couldn’t not include the red carpet debut of Stranger Things couple Charlie Heaton and Natalie Dyer, a.k.a. Jonathan and Nancy. Safe to say, the internet had zero chill as soon as these two stepped out together. Officially our new fave celeb couple.
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Why is it so hard for New Yorkers to figure out what to do with their old clothes? According to the NYC Department of Sanitation, collectively we send 200 million pounds of textile waste every year to the landfill. But an estimated 95 percent of this landfilled clothing has market value and could be recycled. What are we doing? The DSNY suspects that people don’t know how easy it is to donate discarded clothing, which is why this spring, it created a handy map listing the more than 1,000 dropoff spots for used textiles and accessories. Throwing out clothing isn’t just a waste of resources; it’s also environmentally problematic because natural fabrics like cotton, wool, and silk release methane - a greenhouse gas 84 times more potent than carbon - once they start decomposing in a landfill. And there’s a financial reason to try to avoid the landfill: New York City will spend $411 million in 2019 on landfilling waste, and the cost to ship one ton of garbage to a landfill ($74.75 in the Northeast) is projected to keep rising. True, donating old clothes isn’t a perfect solution.
Americans already donate so much of it that only 20 to 40 percent can be resold by U.S. The rest is baled up and sold for pennies per pound to local recycling centers, where it’s downcycled into wiping rags or insulation, or shipped abroad for resale in developing countries - which don’t necessarily benefit from this system. Rwanda is actually planning to totally ban secondhand clothing imports in 2019.) Unfortunately, it’s pretty much impossible to find a store or charity in New York City that doesn’t feed into this system. If nobody wants your promotional T-shirt, it’s either that or the landfill, which is what NYC is trying to avoid. If you’re trying to do the right thing, your best bet is to shop more sustainably. Buy fewer, better pieces of fashion, so that your future closet clean-outs yield fewer, better donations that people actually want. But in the meantime, if you’re trying to dispose of a garbage bag full of Forever 21 that you just Kondo’d, here are the best ways to do it. Donate specific items to New Yorkers in need.
There are two main kinds of clothing donations. The first is called "in-kind," when you get your clothing into the hands of New Yorkers in need, like the autumn coat drive for the homeless, or spring prom-dress drives. Office-appropriate clothing for women can go to Dress for Success and for men to Career Gear. Baby clothing can go to Room to Grow, and your wedding gown can go to Bridal Garden. Drop your bras at Free the Girls collection points in Journelle and Rigby & Peller stores. This type of clothing donation is pretty heartwarming - the only downside is that you often have to go out of your way to find the right drop-off point during the appointed days and hours. Donation etiquette rule No. 1: When donating clothing to people in need, skip the cheap, trendy, torn, or stained stuff, and only donate gently used items that respect the dignity of the recipient.
