Organic, Raw Denim for Men: Boyfriend Jeans for You, from D’Lord
The denim will look good, do good, and make you feel good as a result.
Raleigh Denim Featured in October Whole Living Magazine
Eco Chick first covered Raleigh Denim way back in 2009, and since then, the brand has grown in more ways than just business-wise (though they are going gangbusters in that department as well). They’ve recently opened an NYC storefront and have expanded their jeans-only line to include all sorts of…
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…
Raleigh Denim: Jeans Showcasing the Future of Style and Sustainability
Raleigh Denim Co-founders Victor and Sarah Lytvinenko Photo: Nick Pironio All of a sudden, it seems quality and detail are the new buzzwords in the fashion world. After years of fast fashion ruling the runways and money-making trumping sanity for designers, negative environmental impacts, and questionable labor practices, the tide…
Sharkah Chakra WhiteHot Jeans: Win Them!
These are the gorgeous new bleach-free white jeans, which are whitened using the sun’s rays and nothing more. I’ve written here about Sharkah Chakra jeans– the super-sustainable jeans that are not only organic cotton and Fairtrade certified, but hand-dyed with natural indigo and hand finished in Italy– even the pocket…
Eco Luxury Gift Ideas (and Bikes!) in Vogue
I was thrilled to see some seriously fun totally over-the-top delicious green stuff featured in Vogue’s December issue (it’s the one with the impossibly gorgeous Penelope Cruz, above, on the cover). First up, there’s “Season’s Greenings” by William Norwich, who talks to three fabulous greenies. Sheherazade Goldsmith, author of A…
Radiohead's ' In Rainbows'
It all started back in 1992. Radiohead with frontman Thom Yorke had a searing single floating up the charts, a song like nothing else on the radio and the line that every teenage boy thought was cool, “I don’t care if it hurts, I wanna have control.” …
ReJEANeration
Last month, Starre posted about E Magazine‘s Eco Fashion spread (still on shelves and definitely worth the $!), which highlighted some seriously stylish new threads. Reading about all the hot fashion out there gave this hippie some hope … for years, I’ve been squeezing myself into my fashionista sister’s designer…
Beau Soleil: C'est Tres Chic…
Beau Soleil is a new line of ecofriendly dresses, and are they gorgeous! Designer Anne Epstein uses bamboo, veggie-dyed organic cottons, vintage fabrics, tencel, and recycled leather trims in her designs. What caused Epstein to go green? When Anne discovered she was pregnant, she and her husband morphed their “overly…
S4 launches DENIM issue: "Caught with our Pants Down"
This issue of S4 was an enlightening one to write. Denim is the perfect product to highlight pertinent issues around: There is so much activity happening in the world of denim on the sustainability front + it is such a staple in so many people’s wardrobes. How can you go…
