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Function, Fashion & the Future: 4 Sustainable Men’s Brands from London Fashion Week - Buy Me Once UK

Function, Fashion & the Future: 4 Sustainable Men’s Brands from London Fashion Week

This week saw the close of London Fashion Week Men’s and we wanted to take this opportunity to cut through the glamour and the endless celebrity and street-style coverage and hold a BuyMeOnce magnifying glass up to what should be the star of the shows: the product.

The Essential Little Black Dress: The Ava By Bianca Elgar - Buy Me Once UK

The Essential Little Black Dress: The Ava By Bianca Elgar

In our quest to galvanize the clutter free revolution, team BuyMeOnce has been obsessing over all things capsule. We’ve been poring over what makes a garment great enough to deserve space in our closets and, more importantly, our lives. Here are our findings: Said item must look awesome. 

 

Purge the Plastic: The Detriment of Food Packaging & How to Shop More Sustainably - Buy Me Once UK

Purge the Plastic: The Detriment of Food Packaging & How to Shop More Sustainably

THE PESTILENCE OF PLASTIC Between California and Japan, beginning only miles off of the coast of North America, floats a five metre-deep concentrated soup of microplastic and debris.

The Sustainable Wardrobe Part 1: Building a Capsule - Buy Me Once UK

The Sustainable Wardrobe Part 1: Building a Capsule

Dressing in a way that does minimal damage to the planet can be difficult. Sometimes a sustainable alternative to our favourite product doesn’t exist yet, sometimes we’re tired and time-stretched and sometimes our budget simply cannot accommodate ideal-world ethics.

Things I Don’t Need - Buy Me Once UK

Things I Don’t Need

When I was growing up, accumulating things seemed like a right of passage through to adulthood. The choice between having and not having something was a no-brainer to me. You always want to have the thing. My constant refrain while out shopping with my mum was “But mummy I need it! I NEED IT!”

Care For & Repair Your Wooden Furniture - Buy Me Once UK

Care For & Repair Your Wooden Furniture

 

Wooden furniture is timeless and durable, all it needs is a little bit of initial TLC and regular maintenance so that you can enjoy it for decades to come. Cleaning your wooden furniture Cleaning wooden furniture is easy and low-maintenance, and you don’t need special equipment to do so. A good ole’ feather duster or a […]