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"  Love designer clothing, but hate the delicate and hard-to-care-for fabrics that come along with it? Good news: Runway fashion is now getting easier to care for. Designer Tracy Reese recently announced that through a partnership with Proctor &amp;amp;amp; Gamble&amp;#039;s Tide Pods, she will be creating two looks for her Fall 2014 runway show this February that will be entirely machine washable. Reese prides herself in designing her clothing for real women \u2014 not for runway models \u2014 and said &amp;quot;real women do laundry, so it only made sense for me to extend that consideration to how they care for my pieces.&amp;quot; This collaboration comes as part of Proctor &amp;amp;amp; Gamble&amp;#039;s partnership with the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) to form the &amp;quot;Washable Fashion Initiative.&amp;quot; This initiative&amp;#039;s aim is to encourage the fashion industry to create more machine-washable clothing, which consumers have been demanding more of. The two looks will feature multiple garments made with washable fabrics in various blends, including a cotton/acrylic sweater, a rayon/spandex shirt, and a cotton/polyester skirt, to name a few. Reese created sketches (that&amp;#039;s one above) for her runway show and allowed fans to vote on two color options for each sketch. The looks will be premiered at New York Fashion Week in early February and will be available for purchase this fall. TELL US: What do you think of washable designer fashion? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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