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…
Lara Miller: Eco Fashion's Quick Change Artist
Eco Fashion designer Lara Miller is an Eco Chick fave; her supermodern, often convertible, sensuously romantic, yet travel-friendly designs are deceptively simple but always on point. Lara says she didn’t plan her designs for the travelling types (though they suit us so well), but that her ideas come from a…
Artful Undergarments: Rio Wrenn’s R.A.W. Eco Lingerie Collection
Portland, Oregon based textile designer Rio Wrenn has a unique vision for lingerie, combining modern eco friendly materials and dying techniques, antique constructions and ethical manufacturing to create her line, R.A.W. “I started R.A.W. in 2007, which is inspired by vintage undergarments ranging from the 1800’s to the 1950’s to…
Glassphemy!: A Creative Recycling Center For Glass and More
Glass broken at Glassphemy is recycled. Image by Chris Mottalini. David Belt, Creative Director of Macro Sea, is the man who last summer in Brooklyn conjured swimming pools out of dumpsters. Belt and the team of creative developers at Macro Sea have brought their ingenuity to the fore again with…
(Re)Fashioning Fiber Exhibit on NOW at Greenspaces, NYC
If you can’t make it to NYC, check out my visual tour of the (Re)Fashioning Fiber Exhibit Abigail Doan curated the (Re) Fashioning Fiber exhibit (now through August 13th at Greenspaces in Manhattan) because she thought that among eco fashion and sustainable style showcases, there wasn’t enough focus on the…
Brooklyn Designs 2010: Frameicarium's Ant Farm Art
FRAMEicariums are the brainchild of designers Katie Vitale and Hugh Hayden, and they are seriously one of the coolest pieces of affordable art I have ever seen. They are ant farms reimagined as wall art, literally living sculptures made by the hard work of the ants enclosed in them. Using…
Christie's Green Auction: Ted Danson, Doutzen Kroes, Almudena Fernández, Willie Garson and More Bid for Earth Day
Lot 13: Damien Hirst, All you need is Jealousy, 2010 Christie’s Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth lit up NYC on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day with a megawattage push to raise funds for four leading American environmental agencies. Stefanía Fernández of Venezuela, Miss Universe 2009, and…
Eco Chick Giveaway: Target Earth Day Giftbag
In honor of Earth Month, THREE lucky Eco-Chick readers will win and Eco-Starter Kit from Target. Making small changes, even during typical daily routines such as brushing your teeth and washing your hair can have a positive impact on the Earth. The Target Eco-Starter Kit includes the following items (for…
Amazing Art Sculptures Made From Recycled Clothing
“You are what you wear” meets “the personal is political.”
Eve S. Mosher: Eco Art Visualizing Powerful Intentions
48 Hours of Sao Paolo – Time’s Square, what are we not seeing? ▪ (proposal, 2008) If seeing is believing, Eve S. Mosher is helping us to stretch our imagination to conceive our world as it might be in a future whose outcome we determine. Among her public art projects,…
