Starre Vartan to Host Ecostiletto's "Green Girl's Night Out" in Seattle, June 8th!
Join Ecostiletto and Eco Chick’s founder and editor, Starre Vartan at Kimpton Hotel’s Monaco in downtown Seattle on Wednesday, June 8th for a night of fun, food, cocktails and networking with local greenies. Register for your (free!) tickets here (and don’t forget to bring a career-appropriate purse to donate to…
White Out: This Summer the It Color is One Light Hue!
via Arthur Elgort for Vogue The biggest trend this summer? White on white on more white! (The thrill of being able to button on my white jeans again!) We love it everywhere. Its never been a better time to exercise less is more. With just a pop of color, like…
How I Wear Eco Fashion: LA Eco Diva Taryn Hipwell
Taryn Hipwell puts the ‘multi’ back into multimedia! With a background in hair and makeup modelling and fashion design, and a passion for green living it makes sense that she’s the founder of Eco Divas TV, where she and her team work to green the fashion, film and cosmetics industries…
NYC's Little Cupcake Bakery: Eco Friendly Cupcakes with a Humanitarian Twist for FEED Japan
Cupcakes! The Little Cupcake Bakery, located both on Prince Street in Manhattan’s SoHo and on Third Avenue in Brooklyn, has opened a “shop in shop” to benefit Japan. Recently I visited with Starre Vartan, Eco Chick’s editor, to try some cupcakes (delicious!) and support the bakery and it’s projects. Take…
Eco Chick Eats! Billyburg Brooklyn's Saturday Food Crawl
The new Williamsburg food flea market is open from 9-5 on Saturdays between North 6th and North 7th at the East River [image via Smorgasburg website] All week I had been planing a trip to visit the Williamsburg (BKLN) flea market. I counted on spending the afternoon scavenging for goodies…
Heroines for the Planet: Inspirational Bella Nitika Chopra
Nitika Chopra’s bubbly persona and positivity shine brightly, but this girl is tough as nails, too (in the most hippie, loving way of course). She battled a debilitating disease as a young girl and found herself divorced at 25, with no where else to turn but inward. Nitika dug deep–…
Swish Wetsuits: Crazy Sexy Sustainable Waterwear!
Shorty Wetsuit (this is the one I’m obsessing over!) Swish Wetsuits creator Victoria Berg says that the “ocean is her office” and we all know how it is being in dire need of work-appropriate wear, right? Since Victoria and her friends couldn’t find what they wanted in the wetsuit world…
Summer Rayne Oakes Opens Up: Business, the LBD, and Her Passion for Bugs
Summer Rayne Oakes I happened upon one of the “How I Wear Eco Fashion” posts here on Eco Chick mid-March to find a woman named Summer Rayne Oakes. With her deep-rooted passion and awesome sense of sustainable fashion, I knew I needed to ask her just how she does it…
How I Wear Eco Fashion: Fashion Ecopreneur Greta Eagan
Greta thinks her ensemble above is “The perfect weekend outfit”. Recently Greta Eagan, who is an eco fashion expert (more on that below), had an event to attend, and in putting her outfit together, realized that every part of it was sustainable, down to her nail polish! (That happens once…
Eco Chick Debates: Celebrities and Green – An Endorsement Made in Heaven?
Chloe Sevigny, above, endorses a limited edition cream by Keihls benefitting Oceana. Celebs; love ’em or hate ’em, they impact how we feel about products and politics, and as much as we’d like to deny it, in recent tussles over Planned Parenthood and the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,…
