Eco Designer Carrie Parry Wins the Green Fashion Competition at Amsterdam Fashion Week
Eco-Chick fave Carrie Parry (check out Haley’s coverage of her F/W 2011 collection here) has just won the 15,000 Euro prize at Amsterdam Fashion Week for her latest collection. Congratulations Carrie! “It feels amazing to be honored by such a prestigious group whose goals in advancing sustainable fashion are so…
The New Source4Style: THE Eco Fashion Designer's Key Resource
Summer Rayne Oakes works on Source4Style from her home office. For years, designers with a conscience spent an inordinate amount of valuable time tracking down fabrics that had a smaller footprint, looking for materials that were made from organic and ethical sources and colored with less-polluting dyestuffs. The textiles were…
Who Made YOUR Pants? (Or, Shall We Say, Undies?)
Victoria’s Secret drove me nuts even before they were accused of their most recent child-labor scandal. With high prices for low quality, their kinda-cheesy designs that have to be dug through to find anything cute, and their puke-pink-overload stores (hey, I like a little pink, see above but VC takes…
Conscious Style Inspiration at Fashioning Change
Fashioning Change is intent on, well, changing the face of fashion. Users select the name-brands they’re familiar with, and their recommendation engine serves up sustainable and ethical alternatives, based on price point and style. Ahhh, someone finally bridging the gap effectively between consumers and the great green brands we love.…
Congratulations to Titania Inglis, an Eco Chick Fave, for Winning the Ecco Domani Sustainability Award!
Ed Note: I am always excited to hear who has won the Ecco Domani awards, which gives $25,000 to up-and-coming designers for their next collection. In this case, it’s a designer we know and love (see the first part of the previously published excerpt of our coverage below). The first…
Simplicity at Its Best with Wintertime Nudes
The depths of winter always make me want to pare down and cozy up. We need to wear more layers, but as the bright colors and patterns of the holiday season are washed away, and a New Year is born, we look to cleanse, restructure, and repurpose. Dressing in neutral…
Jewelry by Pippa Small: Impactful and Joyous (in More Ways than Just Aesthetically)
I’m loving London-based jeweler Pippa Small‘s oversized, colorful jewelry. After working under Tom Ford at Gucci and Phoebe Philo at Chloe, she has a fantastic design eye for what’s going to work with a dressed down frock, smart denims and a white tee, or even with a more polished jacket-and-skirt…
Handmade Hair Accessories Trend: Matching Themed Pins
I have had long hair since I was a little girl; and on those days when it looks pretty flowing down my back, I am joyous. But those days are few and far between, and the rest of the time, I wear my hair in a bun or updo on…
Video: Heritage Donegal Tweed from Molloy and Sons
Molloy & Sons: Heritage Tweed on Nowness.com. This video is incredibly beautiful; I’ve been wanting to visit Ireland for years now, but this would most certainly be a wonderful reason to go – to check out authentic Donegal tweed. I would love a menswear-style vest with a satin lining and…
Lina Rennell's Personal Textile Creations Transform Clothes into Casual Wearable Art
Designer Lina Rennell combines beautiful, handprinted fabrics with ethical textiles, creating uniquely lovely clothes which find inspiration in everyday objects; her Fall/Winter collection takes off from a lampshade that the designer loves. Her Spring/Summer 2012 collection, shown here, called “Marble Ballet” delves into the “…imagery of visual mishaps of nature,…
