How I Wear Eco Fashion: Model Citizen Summer Rayne Oakes Rocks the Uniform Project
Over the past month I’ve been taking on the Uniform Project challenge and helping raise money for Charity: Water through the kindness of the community’s readers. It’s been exciting because we’ve already raised enough money to build 1 1/2 wells and hope that we can hit our $10K mark over…
Kaight Boutique's Hot Spring Color (Tomato!) Ensemble
This post courtesy of Kaight Boutique! Tomato red is everywhere this spring. Bold and not for the feint-hearted, this color exudes power and confidence. Camilla Norrback’s body-hugging maxi dress in organic cotton is our fave dress for the season. It looks best paired with strong neutrals such as Collina Strada’s…
Heroines for the Planet: Vaute Couture Vegan Fashion Designer Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart
Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart doesn’t just wear her heart on her sleeve, she designs clothes so you all can, too. She’s the founder and designer of the vegan fashion label Vaute Couture (an Eco Chick fave; check out our coverage of her runway show here), a gorgeous apparel line featuring high-style,…
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…
Starre Vartan, Founder and Editor of Eco-Chick, Featured in Whole Living Magazine!
Starre Vartan, as featured in April, 2011 Whole Living Magazine If you follow my Tweets, I kinda gave away the fact that I was going to be the first in a new feature in Whole Living Magazine called “My Stylosophy” in April. The magazine is on newsstands now! (That’s the…
How I Wear Eco Fashion: Green Machine Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff is a one-woman Green Machine! The Founder of EcoStiletto.com and MommyGreenest.com, which are both incredibly useful (and wonderfully FUN) eco resources, she’s also the Interim Executive Director of Healthy Child Healthy World, an hard-working group that works for the wellness of the world’s most vulnerable citizens. Not…
Heroines for the Planet: Lovetarian Gabrielle Bernstein
It’s an honor to take over this very special weekly series on Eco-Chick in which we’ll feature an extraordinary woman who is powerfully shaping our planet with her good work. Fittingly, we kick things off just a week after International Women’s Day with a gal who is a spiritual heroine…
A Few Of My Favorite Things: A Look Inside John Patrick Organic
In New York City’s East Village over tea and soba and kinpira at Soba-Koh Restaurant I asked John Patrick, the design force behind John Patrick Organic (check out coverage of his Autumn, 2011 collection here) about his favorite things that he absolutely can not live without, and about his design…
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…
How I Wear Eco Fashion: Vegan Gal Whitney Lauritsen
Whitney Lauritsen runs Eco-Vegan Gal where she videoblogs and writes about sustainability and health, and how that ties in with veganism, natch. “I spend my days finding new ways to reduce my impact on the planet and become healthier, which usually comes down to living simply,” says Whitney. She shops…
