New Green Magazines from Australia, Sweden and America
Coco Eco Magazine is the brainchild of Anna Griffin, who’s known in the LA scene for keeping tabs on ecotrends, hooking celebs up with green, and has hosted videos for Ecorazzi. She put together a superstar team for her mag: I have the best and brightest people in the eco-scene…
Green Sheep of the Bush Monarchy? “Lauren Pierce” Launches Eco-Fashion Line
Lauren (Bush) and (David) Lauren Twenty-four-year-old Lauren Bush let the word out in September that she’s launching an eco-friendly fashion line, although her decision to name the line Lauren Pierce has raised some eyebrows. But for George Bush’s neice, it’s probably not easy being green when someone like Robert F.…
Eco Chic Weekly!
Announcing…the new Blog Association that is heralding the Fashion Revolution! I am so pleased to introduce you to the new blog group Eco Chic Weekly. We are a small but rapidly growing group of writers that focus on future of fashion: Sustainability! The members of Eco Chic Weekly are all…
Brook There
When I first started writing about sustainable fashion, I scoured Etsy.com because I found that a lot of small, independent sustainable designers were using it as a retail outlet. That’s when I first discovered Brook There. I was immediately drawn to the use of color and the artistic lines of…
Eko-Lab and Ekovaruhuset Show
An interview with Melissa Kirgan, ecofashion designer, who dyed her organic “Deep Waters” dress with Indigo, an excellent rotational crop for increasing soil fertility that contains no chemicals or toxic metals and Cochineal, the referenced beetles, which produce a totally natural red dye. The final fashion week event that I…
What's Wrong With This Picture?
In a country with a population of 1 billion and the average individual income less than $500 USD per year, it might seem sort of perverse to parade around a group of impoverished people holding expensive designer accessories and then photograph them for a fashion magazine layout. In fact, that…
Boho Launch Party at Kaight
Wednesday night I headed over to the launch party for Boho. This new bohemian chic magazine delivers great green fashion, lifestyle tips and articles. The crowded event was held at Lower East Side eco gem, Kaight. Danelle Brown, Arina Vidorchik and a friend. It was definitely a fitting venue. Surrounded…
Does Eco Fashion Matter?
I say, yes! But I’m not the only one. Over at Devidoll’s blog, a discussion we had a few months ago feels very relevant as I made my way through New York’s fashion week. Excerpted from The Devidoll blog: “Given the reputation of fashion as a ‘dirty’ business, a ‘shallow’…
John Patrick Organic at NY Fashion Week: American Gothic
Talk about a hayseed! John Patrick was totally chanelling his inner hick with his Spring ’09 collection, presented as a tableau vivant on the hyper-Baroque stage of an old Victorian building complex that’s now the Desmond Tutu Center on the West Side of Manhattan. It was a stunning collection, filled…
hessnatur; organic is the new modern
Starre Vartan in front ‘Pajaro’ by Miguel Adrover Last Sunday night, at the beginning of fashion week, I met a very hopeful version of the future. The hessnatur show was the epitome of the direction I think fashion is headed in: supernatural fabrics in beyond modern designs. This perfectly curated…
