Driving sustainable fashion, from old car parts

BusinessGreen staff
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Ford challenges designers to create fashion collection with materials used in old cars

Ah, the relentless world of fashion. How can anyone keep up with which shade of grey is the new black and which part of our body we're meant to hate this season? Frankly, it's exhausting, which coincidentally...

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