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Australian Hemp and what it is | Solomon Street

Australian Hemp and what it is | Solomon Street

Australian Hemp seems to be everywhere these days, on your local supermarket shelves in the form of oil and seed, in the news as CBD oil, and on clothing store racks as everything from hemp denim jeans, to hemp underwear and hemp activewear. But what is it exactly and why is there so much fuss ab...
Carbon Neutral Clothing | Solomon Street

Carbon Neutral Clothing | Solomon Street

Circular hemp activewear brand, Solomon Street, founder Lauren Crago believes that hemp clothing is one of the best ways we can actually ‘wear our emissions’.  In fact, her team won the recent Federal Government run "innovation games" based on the idea. “Hemp is a carbon sink, which means that i...
Adelaide Fashion Week

Adelaide Fashion Week

Solomon Street was privileged to be involved in the Art of Fashion’ runway event which was very fitting given the hand-drawn nature of all our prints. The location was truly incredible, with the runway show happening between two outdoor buildings at The Art Gallery of South Australia. 
The ins and outs of Hemp Fabric

The ins and outs of Hemp Fabric

The two components of a garment production cycle that create the most waste and exploit the most people is in the fabric production and the garment sewing (also known as CMT). Our fabric is all produced sustainably and ethically. About hemp fibres: Hemp is an incredibly old fibre which can be t...
Eco Guilt: Compassion in an age of perfectionism

Eco Guilt: Compassion in an age of perfectionism

Even people with the best intentions of encouraging others to act in more conscious ways, we can feel so much pressure to be perfectly sustainable. While in an ideal world everyone would be living a zero waste vegan lifestyle perfectly, the pressure of reaching this essentially un-attainable goal...
4 Steps to Zero Waste Face Care

4 Steps to Zero Waste Face Care

In my relatively short minimal waste journey, there have been many small challenges, many very easy changes, and a few big hurdles that I've really struggled with. One of the biggest has been getting my skin-care routine in order.I now follow four steps, day and night, that with other aspects of ...