Eco-chic fashion profile: Dosa’s Christina Kim
Los Angeles-based fashion designer Christina Kim says her imagination is spurred by the discipline of working with finite resources.
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A dress from designer Christina Kim. Christina Kim aims to create clothes that push people to cherish more, consume less.
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Inspiration for the 2009 Dosa collection by Los Angeles-based fashion designer Christina Kim is displayed throughout her downtown retail space.
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Christina Kim’s fair-labor practices and preference for long-lasting garments made of recycled scraps and natural dyes have placed her in demand not only as a designer but also as a thinker.
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Sewing machines sit still on Good Friday at Christina Kim’s workspace in L.A.
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A curtain fashioned from recycled pieces of clothing cover several windows in the downtown Los Angeles retail space of Kim’s Dosa collection.
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• Dowdy to divine: retrofitting fashion | Photos
• Webzines mix style with eco-friendly substance (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
A collection of handkerchiefs used in a jacket in the 2009 Dosa collection are on display in the retail space, a pile of invitations made from handkerchiefs sits in the foreground.
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The 2009 Dosa collection by Christina Kim.
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Inspiration for the 2009 Dosa collection is displayed throughout Kim’s retail space.
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• Designers with a ‘green’ vision
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• Sole Technology skates toward a green future | Photos
• Toms Shoes’ model is sell a pair, give a pair away | Photos
• Dowdy to divine: retrofitting fashion | Photos
• Webzines mix style with eco-friendly substance (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Kim stands in front of a wall of pictures from her world travels on display in her downtown retail space.
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• Dowdy to divine: retrofitting fashion | Photos
• Webzines mix style with eco-friendly substance (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Kim believes that supporting artisans worldwide, and having regular contact with them in good times and bad, builds long-term, trusting relationships.
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• Sole Technology skates toward a green future | Photos
• Toms Shoes’ model is sell a pair, give a pair away | Photos
• Dowdy to divine: retrofitting fashion | Photos
• Webzines mix style with eco-friendly substance (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)