Diane Kennedy: (Green) Plus-Size Fashion
In the fashion world, clothes for sizes 12 and up has been getting better and better in recent years, with more stylish, hip offerings in the category as designers realize that just because you’re not a skinny-minnie doesn’t mean you don’t care about looking cute. To the contrary! Many women…
Summer Sandals…..
There’s still plenty of summer left……and your feet want to breathe! Gotta love the very modern design of the Dopie, from the masters of cool eco-shoes, Terra Plana. Made from recycled EVA and foam rubber, the sandal (?) is one piece of molded material. When you get good at walking…
Why Not Bamboo? Q&A with Eco-Fashion Designer Sara Kirsner of Doie
Sara and I get into bamboo. Check out my dress . . . it’s from the Doie spring collection! Considering I’m on a mission to cleanse my corporate-retail past and embrace eco-fashion, I’ve decided to learn as much about environmentally friendly fabrics as I possibly can. My first lesson comes…
Anna Cohen's Spring Collection
Anna Cohen styling a model Anna Cohen’s designs are modern and ultra-feminine, with a little bad-boyfriend style thrown in there so you won’t feel prissy in her togs, just chic and womanly. Anna’s vision is to create a sustainable line of Italian Street Couture. From raw materials to disposal, the…
Eco Fashion for the Harley Set
I’m loving that Chopper Couture has cooked up these very LA/Las Vegas tees, longsleeves and sweatpant sets made of bamboo, lyocell, and dyed using PVC and pthalate-free inks. I don’t know if I’m into the matching tops and bottoms, but it’s great to see different styles of clothing being made…
Doie Designs – Bambooliscious
Last month I had the awesome opportunity to shoot for Sara Kirsner’s Doie Designs. It may have not happened so smoothly, though, if the stars hadn’t aligned in some trippy kind of way…Let me explain: Sara walked into a restaurant where she saw a photographer looking at some work. Lo…
LES Now Renamed Lower Eco Side
I have been foraying around the LES (lower east side) of Manhattan of late, and have I found a bevy of eco fabulousness! First up, Kaight, which I thought I found first, but Treehugger’s Celine was there just a couple days before me. And then I saw that Jill over…
S4: Sustainability Trends in Fashion
You can say you heard it from the horse’s mouth. S4 is launching this month with its premier issue on MOSO (bamboo). We went a little overboard with the design of this one…believe me, subsequent newsletters will not be 50+ pages long. The full report is available via consultation, and…
Truly Natural Jewelry
This gorgeous jewelry is Verde by Gwen Davis. Gwen is dedicated to creating really beautiful and 100% sustainable jewelry. Using bamboo, Tagua nuts, vintage beads and Swarovski crystals, and recycled elements, she creates everything from earrings and bracelets to dramatic neck cuffs and pendants (above). Every part of the…
WSJ Does EcoFashion
The Wall Street Journal has a front-cover feature on eco-fashion today. I thought it was a decent overview of what’s in store for the seasons to come as well as the current pitfalls of fabrications and supply-demand. The column highlighted Loudermilk’s trial and errors of bamboo as well as $14,000…
