Nylon Mag: Sense and Sustainability
Loving the new Nylon article, Sense and Sustainability. It covers some great new designers who are recycling cashmere, working with natural materials to create unique jewlery, and creating high-end eco-couture. Props to Nylon for regularly featuring green designers and sustainable fabrics in their Greenpages. (You can also download their latest…
Swap-o-Rama-Rama
I went, I saw, I crafted (well, kinda)! My first Swap-o-Rama-Rama (in Brooklyn) was a success. I got rid of lots of great clothes that I never wore (I saw a girl exclaiming with delight over two pieces of mine a few hours into the swap, and it was so…
Honey, can you turn your shirt off?
I was hanging out over the Dorfman’s house when a photographer friend’s girlfriend dropped by to show us the coolest thing….EVER! L.E.D. designed shades for the home. Again, I’m not going domestic on you, but they were pretty fabulous. Now Phillips has cashed in on the deal. Their new Lumalive…
All Hail Raffia
My oh my. Raffia, raffia, raffia. You never looked so good. Leave it up to Yves St. Laurent to redefine raffia. What is raffia? Short answer: It’s a palm. It can be stripped down to fiber and is similar to a jute or hemp twine and woven like straw or…
From Junk to Funk!
Continuing on the theme of fun repurposed stuff is Againnyc, a NYC-based (duh!) online store that sells sweet handbags, yoga bags, and even a funky laptop bag, all made of vintage fabrics and hardware. They even donate a portion of their profits to environmental groups. It’s so great that…
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…
The Real Deal
We love Organicclothing.blogs because it gets down to the nitty-gritty of whatever topic they’re exploring. The reporting and writing is first-rate and you can read about subjects you probably won’t find covered elsewhere. If you want to know the latest about Jordanian sweatshops or exhaustive details about organic clothing certifications…
Nylon Struts Their Organic Stuff
For how cutting-edge this magazine is, they still haven’t found a new opening line to introduce organic fashions in their newsletter. Instead, they go with the age old adage of: “Environmentally-friendly fashion isn’t limited to the Birkenstock clad activist look. If wearing hemp from head to toe isn’t your…
The Hempest
Founded in 1995, The Hempest began as a small clothing boutique in Boston catering to enviros who wanted to wear organically harvested duds. Being on Newbury Street in Boston, surrounded by the big corporate retailers such as Armani, Gap, and Nike, provided Hempest with a challenge that also proved to…
Move Over McMansion
Here’s a home that is built with no non-recyclable residue or plastics, utilizes solar energy (not only to heat the water but to produce energy as well) and looks incredibly fabulous. Sound like a fantasy of the eco-chick’s distant future? Not so – it exists today thanks to Germany’s…
