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by Jasmin Malik Chua

For eco-fashion designers who want to sit at the cool kids’ table, a couple of tenets are sacrosanct: 1. Thou shalt not make anything that looks like it should be smoked at a Grateful Dead tribute concert, and 2. Thou shalt not create “trashion” that resembles something the cat purloined from curbside pickup. Paola Volpi, an avant-garde jeweler who lives in Rome, knows how to play by the rules, despite the unusual nature of her materials, which include industrial and automotive oil filters that she turns into fluid, woven wearables.

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