Black - Magnifeco: your head-to-toe guide to ethical fashion and non-toxic beauty

Praise for

Magnifeco

Kate Blacks Magnifeco is a wonderful and relevant book that we need to reference whenever we go shopping! Full of information on complex issues, Magnifeco identifies the problems in beauty and fashion products with clarity and a sense of purpose. Most importantly, Kate provides hope and real-life solutions that we can all act upon. Magnifeco helps us (fashionistas and shoppers alike!) make better choices in our shopping decisions and discover brands that are doing it better. A phenomenal resource for our #buybetter toolbox.

Amber Valletta, fashion icon, actress, and founder, Master & Muse

A powerful case for change combined with a much-needed guide to buying into the kind of future we simply must create. In Magnifeco, Kate offers a useful guide to anyone interested in aligning their values to choices we make every day. A stirring invitation to a life beyond mindless consumption and the enormous potential we each hold for good.

Andrew Morgan, director, The True Cost

Finally, a book that cuts through the noise and shows us exactly how to shop ethically and sustainably, from our hair and makeup down to the shoes on our feet.

Elizabeth L. Cline, author, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

Want to be an environmentalist but look hip and fashionable while youre marching? Kate Blacks Magnifeco is the most comprehensive buyers guide I have seen yet.

Colin Beavan, No Impact Man

In todays world, where we cannot always be guaranteed transparency when it comes to the products we are buying and brands we support, this book is a thoroughly researched and refreshing resource. It is all you need to know when it comes to protecting yourself, the planet, and your unique sense of style!

Anna Griffin, publisher and editor-in-chief, Coco Eco magazine

The Magnifeco blog has been a consistent and reliable point of reference for the sustainable fashion community, and Kate Black is a compulsive sharer of information, a curator of thoughts, unafraid to throw anything into the mix. She has been conducting articulate and relevant conversations on the topic of ethics and sustainability in the fashion industry, and this book is a powerful condensation of her experience and observations. The definitive guide on how and why we should shop more responsibly, this book will make the journey to alternative buying both more compelling and more relevant.

Orsola de Castro, co-founder, Fashion Revolution Day

Kate Blacks breadth of knowledge and passion make this book a must-read for anyone interested in where our future is inexorably headed: a new industry standard of ethical, sustainable fashion and nontoxic beauty. A smart, lively, eye-opening guide to what we all need to know about what we put on our bodies every single day.

Rona Berg, editor-in-chief, Organic Spa Magazine

Kate Blacks new book is beyond MAGNIFECO! Unveiling the human and environmental impacts of the fashion and beauty industries, her comprehensive and important array of explanations, resources and tips is a must-read for every fashionista with a conscience.

Marci Zaroff, ECOfashion pioneer and founder, Under the Canopy

We want to make smart and conscious choices. We aim to support responsible brands and companies with our decisions. Because we are all both citizens and consumers, at the same time. This book is a lighthouse to help us navigate the oceans of our fashion, beauty and jewelry choices

Maria Eugenia Girn, co-author, Sustainable Luxury and Social Entrepreneurship: Stories from the Pioneers and executive director, IE Business School Premium and Prestige Observatory (Madrid)

At last, a simple, easy-to-understand explanation of the link between jewelry and the environmental and social costs of mining. Black explains how harnessing the Earths resources has resulted in inequality, abuse and environmental havoc, and offers a different way forward. Consumers have choices, and Magnifeco lays out how consumers can chose to support solutions to intractable problems like slave labor in mining camps or permanent poisoning of waterways.

Jennifer Krill, Executive Director EARTHWORKS

Copyright 2015 by Kelly Burton.
All rights reserved.

Cover design by Diane McIntosh.

Middle lower model image (cover and internal pages): Fashion by Study NY, photographer:

Mathieu Fortin (LEloi, Montreal), creative direction: Franoise Cournoyer & Isabelle Allard-Gendron, stylist: Sabrina Deslauriers (LEloi, Montreal), hair & make-up: Jessica Lablanche (Folio Montreal), model: Annie Claude MB (Folio Montreal)

From top left down: Handbag: product and photograph Kempton & Co. Towels and bottles iStock Marsbars. Belt iStock Roman_Gorielov. Scarves iStock enviromantic. Make-up iStock Spanishalex. From lower right up: clothing tag iStock knape. Jeans iStock dstaerk. Shoes: Brother Vellies, image Jason Eric Hardwick. Bracelet by/nataliefrigo 2014.

Printed in Canada. First printing October 2015.

New Society Publishers acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) for our publishing activities.

Paperback ISBN 978-0-86571-797-8

Ebook ISBN 978-1-55092-590-6

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Black, Kate, 1969-, author

Magnifeco : your head-to-toe guide to ethical fashion and non-toxic beauty / Kate Black.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-86571-797-8 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-55092-590-6 (ebook)

1. Fashion--Moral and ethical aspects. 2. Beauty, Personal--Environmental aspects. 3. Clothing and dress--Moral and ethical aspects. 4. Clothing and dress--Environmental aspects. 5. Shopping--Moral and ethical aspects. 6. Consumer education. 7. Sustainable living. I. Title.