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For how cutting-edge this magazine is, they still haven’t found a new opening line to introduce organic fashions in their newsletter. Instead, they go with the age old adage of:
“Environmentally-friendly fashion isn’t limited to the Birkenstock clad activist look. If wearing hemp from head to toe isn’t your idea of eco-savvy, then these organic alternatives prove that it is, actually, quite easy being green.”
Gaaawwwd! Get a new line. Eco-chick should be counting how many times insular press use “hemp, “Birkenstock,” and “hippie” in the same sentence when discussing “green” fashion design. Its 2 out of 3 for Nylon Mag this time around…One more strike – and they would be O-U-T….(Ahhh, but we’ll take what we can get around here)….Regardless, they highlight LA’s Burning Torch, by designer Karen Craven, who melds organic fabrics with vintage to create some pretty fem pieces. The piece pictured above is quite cute: polka dots, lace trim and embroidered insets with an empire waist. She’s been splayed all over the press recently included one of the latest issues of Time Out NY Spring Fashion feature and WWD. Wait, wait, do you smell that?? Yeah, b*tch, that’s the smell of a d-e-s-i-g-n revolution!!!!
That is as tired as “Living in a eco-friendly home doesn’t mean living in a teepee without indoor plumbing anymore” or “Eating meat-free doesn’t mean dry bean and flavorless tofu any longer”.
Haven’t they noticed that even all the hippies are text-messaging and starting blogs (wink wink)??
It’s a shame too, because Nylon initially got started with Helena Christensen’s money. She had just failed launched of a real green fashion magazine in her home town of Copenhagen. Twas called iTch, and the demo issue 0 was awesome. Helena is still listed on the Nylon masthead as founding publisher. So what the heck happened? Interesting that Helena and Angela Lindvall just joined the same management agency. So maybe these two will get together and do what Angela’s been threatening to do for years, an annual magazine for the Collage Foundation. At least show people how it’s done!
Actually, that was on the website, not in the magazine. The magazine ran a huge article on organic fashion in September and a recent one on bamboo–I know because I wrote them. And they don’t contain any of the cliches mentioned there. There will be a Green page every month starting with the August issue, so keep reading.
Thanks for the FYI, EH. We’ll totally look forward to it!