Ecofashion in E Magazine

This gorgeous image was shot by Eric Striffler at solar-powered, carbon-free Project Greenhouse, Long Island, NY with clothes by naturevsfuture.

This month’s issue of E Magazine includes a feature on all things ecofashion, so if you have any lingering questions about why you should care about the fabrics you wear on your body every day, check it out!

There’s an overview of the ecofashion revolution featuring interviews with some of my favorite designers like Carol Young and Bahar Shaphar, and ecofashion blogger and designer Jill Danyelle. There’s a sidebar on creative recycling of odd stuff into accessories, and an in-depth look at the lives of the people who grow cotton outside the US, and what they stand to gain (and lose) by growing the stuff.

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Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.

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4 Comments on “Ecofashion in E Magazine”

viggo
here’s a sneak pre-view of the new for spring 2008 eco fashion collection from chopper couture called rock rhapsody: http://www.choppercouture.com/108.html
09/17/07 » 4:40 am »
Miranda
Reused and natural fibers are great. But the most eco fashion is rejecting seasonal fashion and just wearing your clothes as long as possible, rather than shopping all the time.
09/18/07 » 5:30 pm »
RemyC
Shopping all the time? That’s if you have the luxury of a disposable income, or an addiction… Most people I know buy clothes when they need them… otherwise just shop as a form of attraction… browse… a day at the mall… like a day at the beach… Besides, clothes never really get thrown away… they all get recycled… either passed down to friends or family members, or to Good Will… clothes last for as long as the fabric lasts… they never really go to waste… old clothes used to be recycled into paper pulp… The real environmental problems are the production of fibers and manufacture. The waning part of the C2C cycle in this instance, I think pretty much takes care of itself, made all the more fun now by events like swap-o-rama which enables you to make brand new clothes from old ones… i read somewhere they are opening a permanent location in brooklyn soon. Besides seasonal is for a reason… fabrics worn in summer are different than those worn in winter.
09/25/07 » 3:47 pm »
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