Breast Cancer Awareness: Go Green to Really Go Pink
We’re surrounded by endocrine-disrupting compounds at every turn, not to mention countless pesticides and other environmental toxins. Could all this chemical crap have ties to rising rates of breast cancer in women around the world? In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Breast Cancer Fund is highlighting its sunscreen…
Fall Eco Fashion Beats the Chill In Style with Keds, Loomstate and Eileen Fisher Organics!
It’s official. Fall is off to a cool start! The best part about fall is the chance to start anew: new initiatives (turn off that a.c. and switch to eco-bulbs), new motivations (make lunch), and new clothes! You want to look street smart even when it is cold and this…
Eco Chick Escapes To: Livia Firth's Eco Age Boutique in London!
Eco Age’s front window During my most recent trip across the pond, I stopped by London to check out London Fashion Week and visit my best friend, Jenn, who lives in my second-favorite city in the world (the first is NYC baby!). And thanks to a fortuitous hookup by the…
Eco Chick Giveaway: Adrian Grenier's Nautica T-Shirt for Oceana
Adrian Grenier at the Tribeca Film Festival: Image by David Shankbone You might be familiar with this hot hunk from Entourage, however Adrian Grenier has a new agenda: saving the ocean. Grenier claims his passion for the environment turns the paparazzi and media off (not us!) but no matter what…
TOMS Wedges: Now Perfect for Autumn Too
If you regularly ready Eco Chick, you know that I’m a huge fan of TOMS shoes, the company famous for the ‘buy a pair and a child in need gets a pair of shoes too’ (they recently dropped their millionth pair!). Their program is called One for One and it’s…
Oil Spill Art? 'Mired in the Bayou' Exhibit Explores BP's Toxic Legacy in the Gulf
The BP oilspill is an unmitigated disaster, underestimated by everyone from British Petroleum to the United States government. The only group of people not downplaying its destruction and long-term effects are those living along the Gulf coast, who know that their beaches and waterways (and the animals and plants that…
New York Fashion Week Greenshows: Bright Young Things Debut is About Extreme Wearability
Classic lines, without dropping into Preppie territory; funky proportions give these pieces a strong whiff of cool. Bright Young Things designer Eliza Starbuck was the creator of the dress behind the much-lauded Uniform Project (the concept was which suggested, beautifully, how a single dress could serve as the backdrop or…
Video: Olivia Zaleski Covers the Clinton Global Initiative
Olivia interviews the CEO of Avon, Andrea Jung at the Clinton Global Inititiative The Clinton Global Initiative was begun in 2005 by former President Bill Clinton in order to “…help turn good intentions into real actions and results.” Focusing on finding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, the nonpartisan…
Monique Pean’s Mod Polynesian Dream: Eco Friendly Jewelry for the Ages
Ahe wave necklace with assorted fossilized woolly mammoth wave diamond and scrimshaw bangles, sunburst fossilized walrus ivory rings, champagne diamond necklace and gold earrings. Photo by Billy Farrell/Billy Farrell Agency CFDA/VOGUE Fashion Fund winner Monique Péan unveiled her newest collection last week at Lincoln Center, and it is just as…
Abercrombie and Fitch (Deservedly) Earns Green Teens' Wrath with Mall Protest
Abercrombie and Fitch has long walked the ‘adored by teens, hated by adults’ line, what with controversies sparked by their scantily-clad (and strangely hairless) models and ugly-people-need-not-apply hiring practices. But now they’ve pissed off the kids, and they’re fighting back with 70’s-style in-person protests (hey, 70’s is totally IN) of…
