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Since when has the sneakerhead trend infiltrated Vancouver? Many a Pharrell lookalike lining and snapping up Adicolors and Billionaire Boys Club hoodies at the Livestock sample/dead/over stock sale.

At least there are some good deals to be had.

Minirobot is on holiday.

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(A.P.C. f/w 2007 collection)

The full A.P.C. fall collection has dropped online today. Peppered with a couple sweet prints, it’s a bit more austere than usual, but that’s alright with me. It’s little shirtdresses like these and the ubiquitous coquettish basics that make me go crazy.

(A love of boots ÷ sandals) (flesh toned + etched leather) (∞ adoration) = These Chie Mihara boondals.

(Photo by diastema.)

Good for milk, tofu, vodka, cosmetics, as an appetizer, as a sauce, (the list keeps growing), my personal king of the bean world, the soy bean, constantly proves its supremacy by diversifying. Parlaying into the textile industry, soy silk is another of the bean’s incarnations. Made with byproducts of the tofu manufacturing process, it is said to closely emulate the texture and quality of silk. Sounds promising.

Though I have marvelled at the prospect of foods becoming clothing, it is easy to inflate the virtues of these “natural” man made fibers and get a little carried away. Seems like an environmentally friendly miracle discovery, but inevitably there is a negative side to these advances: the soy bean is one of the crops being genetically modified and increasingly so (81% of soy crops are GMO), and often grow with the assistance harmful chemicals. Just as bamboo is making its way into textiles and clothing, corn and soy are also edging in; and though these products are made of renewable resources they falls short of other green goals -just as I, and I’m sure many others, do as well.

But while there is work to be done, it is nevertheless a step forward.

Check out fiftyrx3’s post on eco-fibers.