When Paper and Couture Meet
When the sustainable design movement first started, rolled paper jewelry and gum wrapper bags were plentiful. You have to start somewhere, right? Turn the clock forward to this collection of paper jewelry, created as a collaboration between KEZA and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) students Jenny Lai and Lindsay Perkins.
The RISD designers participated in the collection to help empower women who were formerly sex workers by helping them set up their company and develop skills in making paper jewelry….
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Meet Rosel Designer, Juliane Camposano
Designer Juliane Camposano in a Rosel shrug
Sustainably-designed knitwear isn’t something new, but really fashion-forward knits are.
Rosel designer Juliane Camposano is one of those trendsetting knitwear lines to watch.
Camposano grew up in Northern Germany, on the North Sea, where knits were commonplace garb. She says an additional influence to create came from her Aunt Rosel, a fashion designer and illustrator for a Berlin fashion house in the 30s.
What really interested me about Camposano (besides the fact that she makes a boogie suit) was that she wanted to design a line …
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When Tags Matter
Levi Strauss is just one of many denim lines clothing the majority of the planet so it was great to hear that they’ve wrapped their brains around their denim’s lifecycle.
Lucky 3P writer Jen Boynton says of her recent dinner with Levi’s and a gaggle of writers: “The Levi Strauss folks came across as down to earth and honest. We talked about the sweatshop labor that plagued their press coverage in years past and how it started the company on the road to sustainability: first socially, with safe working conditions and …
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Sword and Fern’s ‘Ancient Future’ Giveaway
I see you. It’s not the present future, or even the past future, it’s the ancient future and it’s really cool.
In this time period, you are wearing gilded dresses sewn from free ranging silk worms, dyed in beet juice and sprinkled in gold.
Around your neck, this beautiful talisman rests, your passport to the present where people become entranced when they look at you, a mere mortal but somehow more than that.
I’m not at all sure Sword and Fern designer Emily Baker had this in mind when she designed the piece, but …
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Nowism, Coming to a City Near You
Magda Rod recently took her LA boutique Visionary on the road.
We are a society used to getting immediate gratification so why wouldn’t we want clothing as quickly as we can get a Big Mac?
The shift in consumer desire to want more now has led us, over the years, to the current state: body care and electronics being sold in vending machines, a craving to know more about where your friends are 24/7 through social media and those energy drinks to help you move faster to get everything, you know…now.
Eco-designers and boutiques …
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Vert Couture: Chicago’s Fashion Week Gone Green
Bianca and Michael Alexander, founders of Vert Couture, had their work cut out for them this past Sunday hosting Chicago’s first ever green fashion show. But with an already established track record in the sustainable field, the couple pulled it off with flying shades of green.
The husband and wife team, who recently migrated from California, have made the windy city more interesting with Conscious Living TV and Soul of Green. So producing Chicago’s debut sustainable design show was just another step in their progression towards sustainable.
Michael …
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Customization: The Future Is Full of Clothing That Fits
I hope Mom doesn’t mind, (she’s my #1 fan) but I have to let you in on a conversation we had recently about sizing for curvier women. My mother, fully comfortable with her figure and maybe uneven sizing (bigger on the bottom than top), can’t find anything great to wear anymore so she’s taken to making her own clothes.
Luckily, I benefit as well.
She wishes more eco-designers made clothing in her size, but I told her they’re still designing for the teeny tiny woman. Most of the designs really wouldn’t look …
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cmarchuska Diane Dress Giveaway
At EcoSalon, we love versatile clothing as much as our giveaways (and eco-designers!). The Diane dress, by designer cmarchuska, is one of those multi-tasking talents.
Is it a tunic? Is it a dress? One thing we do know is that it’s beautiful.
Draped softly at the neck and shaped just enough to skim your sides, the Diane looks lovely worn alone or with accoutrements.
Hailing from a Wall Street background, designer Christine Marchuska knows what looks good on a woman during and after office hours. Most of her designs move you smoothly from …
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Sustainable Fashion Round-Up: What’s New in Eco Fabrics?
When it comes to developing sustainable fabrics, textile manufacturers have got their work cut out for them. It’s not just about improvement of current favorites like bamboo and cotton, but future-thinking research and development, as well.
Here’s a sampling of what’s being tested and what’s already arrived for you, the fashion-forward green consumer:
Nilit has introduced an eco-friendly nylon yarn that’s made from recycled polymer waste.
Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) has introduced a new range of Merino wool fabrics for applications such as active wear and sportswear.
Scabal has introduced …
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