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Radiant Natural Beauty with Jessa Blades and Greta Eagan

Jessa Blades of Blades Natural Beauty makes up Greta Eagan
Photo by Clemens Kois

When natural beauty makeup artist Jessa Blades and eco fashionista Greta Eagan recently got together for an Eco-Chick style photo shoot, the theme of the day was radiance. Jessa, who is passionate about promoting beauty that is connected to health, aims to help women look and experience their most vital selves.

Jessa Blades
Photo by Clement Kois

Not only does she offer an amazing expertise on cosmetic safety, but her stellar makeup artistry is convincing women of all ages—from savy fashion clients to impressionable teens—that natural beauty products should absolutely be the norm.

Blades Natural Beauty
Photo by Clemens Kois
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Photos: NRDC and Runway To Green’s Green Carpet Style

The Runway to Green collection launched last week with a fashion show in New York City. The spectacular collection of eco-friendly evening gowns, bags, jewelry, jackets, and shoes is now available on www.net-a-porter.com.

The comprehensive range of couture to casualwear demonstrated that there are greener choices in various pricepoints and styles. There is little not to love about Runway to Green as it is donating a percentage of sales to a Bid to Save The Earth and challenging major fashion players, including Prada, Gucci, Jason Wu, and Michael Kors, to become more sustainable.

Sylvana Ward-Durrett, co-founder of Runway to Green, set out to prove that organic and green is luxurious and can become the fashion industry standard.

With the help of the Natural Resource Defense Counsel (NRDC), one of the environmental beneficiaries of sale proceeds, all of the participating designers implemented the Clean By Design educational guidelines.
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How High Can You Bid at Christie’s? Making A Bid To Save The Earth 2011

The countdown has already started towards New York’s glitzy environmental fundraiser Bid To Save The Earth. March 29 will mark the second annual Christie’s green auction and a new collaboration with Vogue. While Christie’s New York will be putting up on the auction block big-ticket fine arts, collectibles, and extravagant experience packages, Vogue will be unveiling a Runway to Green fashion show of Fall 2011 eco styles by 20 notable designers.

Beyond the March 29 gala event, there are several ways to participate online in the Bid to Save the Earth initiative. The MYBID video encourages all of us to enter the conversation. It asks us to answer the question “How are you making a bid to save the earth?” and share it with others. Vogue’s Runway to Green collection will also be available online for purchase on NET-A-PORTER following the runway debut. One can imagine that supporting global fashion labels like Marc Jacobs, Gucci, Burberry, and Prada in this unique Runway to Green collection will encourage them to continue to green their future collections.
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XOXO for MapleXO Recycled Skateboard Jewelry

Lindsay Holmes began her Portland-based jewelry company MapleXO back in 2005 inspired by her passion for skateboarding. She has since then been crafting vibrant jewelry from broken skateboards. Holmes has refined the process of drilling, cutting, shaping, and sanding the boards to preserve not only the amazing graphics of the original skateboard designs, but also to reveal the contrasting colors, wood grains, and layers inside the skateboard decks.

In this season’s collection she has expanded her line to create LeeMOXO jewelry pieces, a collaboration with origami jewelry designer Leela Morimoto, of LeeMo, and to produce a series of limited-edition iPhone skateboard cases in collaboration with Grove Made.

Holmes’s inspiration shows the natural link between the outdoor sports we love and a commitment to the environment. As she expresses: “Recycling the boards has been my way to give back to this community by reducing the environmental footprint of skateboarding and giving the old boards new life.”
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Jewelry for Eyebrows: Highbrow’s Haute Recyclage Looks Up

Accessories for eyebrows? Alicia Lubowski-Jahn says ‘Yes!’
Photo by: Kevin Kwan

With so many fashion and accessories designers working with recycled materials, it comes as a surprise that we’ve all ignored something right before our eyes…or I should say directly up above them.

Therein comes the designer Jessica Sapick, who recently launched Highbrow. Highbrow is Sapick’s line of handmade upcycled eyewear with signature clip-on eyebrow ornament.
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