What Crazy Material Are These Dresses Made From? An Artist Challenges our Perceptions
Did you guess marble? I didn’t. I thought it was cotton—or some new chemically engineered fabric! It reminded me that “Perception is reality,” or so I have heard. “Who made these?” You ask. Meet Alasdair Thomson and his beautifully living marble sculptures. Mimicking the flow, and breathe that an…
Get Inspired with Sweatshop-Free, Sustainable Spring 2014 Eco Fashion
Looking for fresh inspiration for this season—and beyond—I put together some of my fave finds from some of my most beloved eco fashion designers.
High-Tech Fashion: 5 Smart Clothes That Fight Pollution
A few runway-worthy dresses and a unisex jacket with amazing high-tech capabilities.
7 Fab Ethical Fashion Picks from Modcloth!
I picked 7 ethical fashion pieces that I found particularly on trend for this fall.
Green Touch of Spain Pop-Up Shop in Brooklyn
The Green Touch of Spain is open Monday through Friday 11am-8pm, and Saturday and Sunday from Noon – 8pm from May 2 - 10. The shop is located at GGrippo art + design at 174 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY.
Maheya by Free People: Natural Dyes for Dresses, Caftans
Launched on Earth Day, Maheya (meaning 'of the earth'), is colored with marigold flowers, rhubarb, lilac, natural indigo, pomegranate skin, and annatto seeds.
Salty Philip: Grown-up Alice-in-Wonderland Dresses for the Ethical Fashionista
I adore whimsical, almost-fairy-tale-like clothes; a skirt or a blouse that lets you look down during the day and imagine lunch in a wooded glen with a white rabbit rather than the bench on the street outside your office. Salty Philip was created in Berlin in 2009 by Scottish designer…
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…
Sneak Peek of H&M's Garden Collection: Organic Cotton, Tencel, Recycled Polyester and So, So Pretty!
I had heard whisperings of this new collection upcoming from H&M; it’s their first big line of eco fashion (they’ve done some pieces here and there previously). And it was worth the wait! Check out the gorgeous pieces in FabSugar’s video, above. Really the colors, patterns, whimsy and fun of…
