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Nikki Reed has launched a sustainable fashion line with designer Morgan Bogle.

Bogle is known for his Freedom for Animals brand, which aims to promote awareness of environmentally friendly fashion.

The Nikki X Freedom for Animals collection consists of three bags, all made from 100% locally-sourced polyurethane.

Admitting to her love for leather, the Twilight actress explains how buying synthetic material is a step in the right direction.

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Leona Lewis has put together a mini-lesson in buying cruelty free fashion.

In a post to the site, Lee-Loy, Lewis gives her tips for finding animal-friendly shoes, clothing and handbags.

The article contains photos of some of Lewis’ favorite items, names a few brands she can’t get enough of and gives advice for checking to see if an item contains any animal products or byproducts.

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Heart of Dixie actress Claudia Lee wore one of Canadian designer Dalia MacPhee‘s environmentally friendly gowns for an underwater shoot to promote her Spring/Summer 2013 collection.

MacPhee has been described by Entertainment Tonight as ‘Couture with a conscious’ and she is donating proceeds from her animal-free designs to several charitable organizations.

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A new site has been launched that allows buyers of vegan, leather-free, eco-friendly and other ethical fashion to search for items of their choice.

Style-is.co.uk allows the shopper to search and view a product before being taken to a recommended online retailer that sells the exact product.

Founded by fashion blogger and marketing consultant Ceri Heathcote said she wanted to make sustainable designs more accesible.

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Inder Bedi, founder of vegan, eco-friendly Matt and Nat handbags and accessories, spoke with the Edmonton Journal about the origins of Matt and Nat, the market for eco-friendly fashion and how he keeps the company’s offices meat-free.

Bedi even touches on the story that made headlines a couple of years ago regarding the employee who took legal action because she couldn’t bring her baloney (pun fully intended) to work.

Here are a few highlights from the interview:

Do people buy Matt and Nat because they support the vegan, eco-friendly philosophy?

A: “Most people buy it because they like the look. When they find out it’s vegan and we use recycled water bottles for linings and we use sustainable materials such as cork, they like that too.”

“I think the key thing in terms of design esthetic, is you have to do what you like and hope that people will appreciate it, versus chasing trends. It’s not a trendy line — it’s more timeless, minimalist.”

What influences Matt and Nat designs?

A: “Everything from architecture to art to music to food to vegan restaurants to fixing your bike … anything.”

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“Spring is quite easy. Fall gets a little more challenging. But that’s my commitment to myself and to the collection: to avoid using animal products. Wool, silk, whatever it is. Everything I’ve learned—about how we use animals for clothing, entertainment, food—I would like not to do.”

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“Being brought up on an organic farm and having a different way of looking at life comes into everything that I do. From day one I didn’t want to be a hypocrite. What we hope to do is to isolate out a mill to just start the process, one that we will work with on a daily basis. The whole idea of improving one’s environmental footprint in this industry is you have to work with people.”

—Stella McCartney to Vanity Fair, on the issue of producing environmentally conscious clothing. Stella’s brand has recently partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Councils’ “Clean By Design” a program meant to highlight ways to reduce pollution and make the most of energy resources at one of her clothing mills.

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Vaute Couture founder and president Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart has an interview with From A To Vegan where she discusses her lifelong interest in fashion and the events that led her to start a vegan clothing company.

“I always just had a really strong, gut reaction whenever someone is being picked on or exploited or something’s not fair,”Hilgart said. “When I was a kid…[I thought] there’s just something not quite right about how we were treating animals.”

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