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WRITTEN by: Vicki Godat

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The eco-fashion houses profiled here are pioneers in fair trade fashion and style.  They founded their labels with the intent to help women and communities in unforgiving circumstances.  They set up training and stable employment for women who in turn, help produce sustainable fashions for their companies.  They invest profits back into women and their communities for education, health and homes.  Women who, without help, would be living in "crushing poverty with hope for prosperity as scarce as jobs," in the words of Indigenous Designs' president, Matt Reynolds...