Press Features
These press features turn the spotlight onto Lauren as she discusses her focus and intention with the Sustainably LB Podcast, how to prioritize clothing circularity with Swap Omaha and holding the fashion industry accountable through her work as a journalist and storyteller.
Press Highlights
UNO Gateway — Conscious Collections Fest Holds Sustainable Fashion Show
OmaPod — Lauren Bates on the Fall Conscious Collections Fest 2025
OmaPod — Lauren Bates on the Omaha Fashion Week Controversy Aftermath
UNO Gateway — Secondhand Swapping: Stay In Style and Out of Fast Fashion Locally
Omaha World Herald Cover Feature — Old Linens are Like Gold to Designer Taking Part in Omaha's First Conscious Collections Fest
Omaha World Herald — Photos: The First Conscious Collections Fest in the Books. Here's a Look Behind the Scenes
OWH Video Feature — First Conscious Collections Fest in the Books
UNO The Omaha News — The Ethical Fashion Community Grows in Omaha
OmaPod — Lauren Bates on Conscious Collections Fest 2025
KETV Conscious Collections Feature — New Fashion Show Coming to the Metro Promotes Sustainability
OmaPod — CODA: Lauren Bates on Plant Medicine Therapy, Staying Centered & Ayahuasca in Omaha?
OmaPod — PART II Lauren Bates on Benson’s Burgeoning Fashion Scene
OmaPod — Lauren Bates on Modeling Internationally, Sustainable Fashion & ‘Conscious Collections’
Harness Magazine — Sustainable Pathways: Lauren Bates, Founder of Sustainably LB and Swap Omaha
Omaha World Herald — Swap Omaha Promotes Fashion Sustainability by Trading ‘Shop’ for ‘Swap’
The Art of Life, Liberty, and Happiness Podcast — On Sustainability: The Dark Side of the Fashion Industry and a Bright Future
Channel 3 KMTV News Now — Celebrating Earth Day at Elmwood Park with Swap Omaha
