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Article: BRAZIL: SUSTAINABLE FASHION.
- Article from:
- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- July 21, 2009
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According to ANBA: Recycle, reuse and reinvent are verbs often used by small businesses in Brazil that invest in sustainability to develop products that do not harm the environment. This week, the city of S?o Paulo hosted "Mostra Acess?rios" (Accessories Exhibition), a trade fair showcasing the work of designers from across the country, and visited by over 5,000 people from Brazil and abroad. Among the 76 exhibitors present at the fair, there were many people concerned with working in an ecologically correct manner. Canvas for lorries, wood scraps, patches of cloth, plastic scraps, rubber and PET bottles are turned into purses, belts, necklaces, earrings, bracelets and ...