In an informative article, the Los Angeles Times takes a critical look at upcycling in fashion, both from the consumers’ and the retailers’ point of view.

In the meantime Topshop is collaborating with Reclaim To Wear — a concept that brings together designers and retailers to create zero waste fashion — to launch their second upcycled fashion line.

If you’re into arts and crafts, Etsy seller Linzee McCray has some tips on how to upcycle items of clothing and accessories that have sentimental value.

Fab Links from Our Members

MaryK loved this brief interview with Diane von Fürstenberg because in addition to the multitude of fantastic quotes (e.g. about marriage), she’s such an inspiring business comeback story: big success when she was young, then hard times, and now back on top.

Nicole Kidman has a sassy new hairdo in this Jimmy Choo ad campaign. Kyle thinks she’s sporting killer footwear too, and is curious to hear if you find the outfits, including a white blouse, little black dress and khaki trench equally fab.

This week it’s all about the boys for Angie. These photos of Gregory Peck, James Dean, and Paul Newman — taken in the late ’50s or early ’60s — could be placed in 2013 Vogue and outshine any male model in the magazine (and the female models too for that matter!).

MNSara points us to a lovely blog post from Catherine over at Not Dressed As Lamb about featuring your best bits. It comes with encouragement and good rationale for us to find or even create our own.

Isabel Marant fan Annagybe reports that the French designer is creating a mix and match capsule collection for H&M that will be infused with “a certain carelessness that is very Parisian”.

TraceyLiz found it funny that a new survey showed that wedges ranked number one as the “least attractive shoe trend” in men’s opinions.