No. SI1 (2025): Special Issue
Essays

Handle with Care: Sustaining Chic-Ness with Thrifted Clothes

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  • Alessandra Von Burg,
  • Nathaniel French,
  • Terry Matthews,
  • Roksanna Keyvan,
  • Toni Hines,
  • Farah Alsakhita,
  • Gina Giorgio
Alessandra Von Burg
Wake Forest University
Nathaniel French
Wake Forest University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3145

Published 14-07-2025

Keywords

  • Fashion, nature, communion, technology, mycelium.,
  • Sustainability,
  • style,
  • circular consumption

How to Cite

Von Burg, A., French, N., Matthews, T., Keyvan, R., Hines, T., Alsakhita, F., & Giorgio, G. (2025). Handle with Care: Sustaining Chic-Ness with Thrifted Clothes. Fashion Highlight, (SI1), 586–597. https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3145

Copyright (c) 2025 Alessandra Von Burg, Nathaniel French, Terry Matthews, Roksanna Keyvan, Toni Hines, Farah Alsakhita, Gina Giorgio

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Abstract

This paper defines and investigates models of environmental movers (EM), based on a long-term collaboration and community-based project about fashion, sustainability, identity, with a focus on environmental solutions to ecological, class, and social justice.

We describe and evaluate the first two years of “Handle with Care” project, a long-term community collaboration between a high school and university classes, which includes Envirochic/Chic Shack, an environmentally friendly boutique planned, developed, and implemented with a local high school in the United States. This space provided a platform to explore and advocate for sustainability through fashion and style.

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