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Best Eco-luxury Infant Clothes Designer Competition

Nominate your favorite, "green" high-end infant apparel designer.

The new poll is titled Best Eco-luxury Infant Clothes Designer. Third quarter nominations are honored through August 30th, 2009.

What

A Fun Infant Clothing "Sustainable Green" Fashion Contest

Where

Global via Internet

When

Nominations Honored… Continue

Added by Delia on August 24, 2009 at 19:17 — No Comments

recycouture on youtube

Hi, i just sent this to youtube. This is the Species on the Verge video part of chapter one of the fashionRIP Project an installation piece that combines fashion/art and issues of sustainability.
enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC-kw6T4PWk

Added by deborah joy barnes on August 23, 2009 at 18:54 — 3 Comments

The Guilt-Free Way of Shopping

Ethical clothing. Fair trade. Organic cotton. Sweatshop labour. All words we've heard strung together and often put in sentences to make us feel guilty about our consumption. The guilt is often swept aside once another cheap and disposable clothing purchase is made, and not thought of again in most cases.

Why is this? I spoke to a Fairtrade certified retailer in my hometown of Carlisle a couple of weeks ago, and she showed me some interesting statistics. The month of the Make Poverty… Continue

Added by Cindy Yau on August 23, 2009 at 16:43 — 1 Comment

Fashionably conscious

If you have lived an awfully privileged life, you will never know the value of anything because you have never needed to. That goes without saying. But if you have lived a moderately privileged lifestyle, nowadays, you can still never understand the value of anything.

By anything, I mean materialistically. A friend said to me upon returning from a trip from Kenya, "I could live there. You get so used to not having material possessions, it's like you never had them in the first… Continue

Added by Cindy Yau on August 21, 2009 at 12:09 — 2 Comments

The Accidental Environmentalist

I’ve been accepted onto the MA in Ethical Fashion!

Never thought I’d be running my own company and be a student at the same time. But it’s actually the best idea ever. I can literally learn on the job. It’s like starting a company up with backing from the whole Dragon’s Den, but without the snide-y comments and demands for 90% of your company for 10% of the investment you want.... I’m more excited than I can say!

I’ve spent years agonising over the future and now it seems… Continue

Added by Catherine Courtauld on August 21, 2009 at 6:30 — No Comments

www.bobelle.co.uk is featured on www.cosmopolitan.co.uk

www.bobelle.co.uk www.cosmopolitan.co.uk

Dear all,

I am thrilled to say BoBelle has been featured on Cosmopolitan at www.cosmopolitan.co.uk - please see the direct link at:… Continue

Added by Claire Watt-Smith on August 19, 2009 at 16:15 — 2 Comments

Junky book - wardrobe surger - launch party

thank you very much for coming to our event!

we now have uploaded pictures from the event please have a look

Find more photos like this on Ethical Fashion… Continue

Added by Junky Styling on August 18, 2009 at 17:02 — No Comments

Seminar and Marketplace: SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICA

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR TOMORROWS EVENT: SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICA

Expert Panel Includes:

Colin McDowell, The Chair

Cristina Cisilion, Founder of MADE

Rohit Kuthiala, Senior Consultant- Supply chain at Accenture

Jo Maiden, Founder of SOKO

Claire Hamer, former buyer at Topshop, supply chain consultant

Eric Manu, Founder of Clothes Show Live,… Continue

Added by Spotlight on Sourcing on August 17, 2009 at 15:34 — No Comments

'Beau-Couture' making womenswear sustainably within the UK

First entry,

I have never written a blog before, but fancy the idea as i enjoy keeping a diary.

I guess it will be about me, An emerging designer based in the South West of England and my exciting career launching a sustainable womenswear business and the challenges and hopefully successes it presents.

Currently frantically sewing the last few garments to complete my 18 garment collection. better late than never, but the launch is September!!! cutting it fine!

I… Continue

Added by Natasha Postill on August 16, 2009 at 20:30 — 2 Comments

Visualizing A Green Network

As a new member to this forum, I would like to share something that has been suspected by many but lay entirely hidden in plain sight. That something is the vast and growing network that supplies partners, support and a market for aspiring green brands – including sustainable fashion brands.

I discovered this network in the process of interviewing America’s top green business leaders for my new book. Very few of these… Continue

Added by Richard Seireeni on August 15, 2009 at 3:02 — No Comments

Does your Ethical Fashion Online Store have an affiliate program?

Affiliate systems are one of the best ways of increasing sales on you online store. They are systems that track "referrals' to your e-commerce website from other sites, and reward the sites that send you customers by giving them a percentage of the sales profit. IF you have great products, these systems have the potential to increase your sales many many times over.

Examples are http://www.linkshare.com and… Continue

Added by Eco Fashion World on August 14, 2009 at 17:26 — No Comments

Proposal for a 'Good for Development' company mark: consultation exercise

The Overseas Development Institute has proposed a new "Good for Development" Mark that recognises companies that are delivering development gains through their core business: creating jobs, bringing investment capital, training workers, using local suppliers and fostering small and medium enterprises.

ODI is interested in getting your views on the idea.

To find out more about the Good for Development Mark and to… Continue

Added by Business Fights Poverty on August 12, 2009 at 11:00 — No Comments

The Andean Project Launch

Today, I am ecstatic to report that the non-profit wing of The Andean Collection, aptly named, "The Andean Project"** has decided on its first project. A little while ago I received a phone call from Sarah, our intern in Ecuador, who was concerned about a situation arising in Olga's family. Olga, one of our lead artisans, is the oldest of a very large family. Sandra, one of her younger sisters, is 13 and has just finished elementary school.…

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Added by Amanda Judge: Andean Collection on August 12, 2009 at 0:43 — No Comments

The accidental environmentalist

So the lush cord has arrived. I didn’t know it was possible to get this excited about what is basically posh string but i’m literally leaping about, jumping for joy. The last piece in the puzzle of the seemingly never-to-be-completed sample.

I’ll have my first glance at my ‘baby’ next week. I honestly can’t wait. It’s almost more than i can bear! I’m hopeless at surprises and queuing (which is really just waiting with other people around to watch you getting stressed isn’t it?). And… Continue

Added by Catherine Courtauld on August 10, 2009 at 10:30 — No Comments

Get Website and Internet Marketing Advice in This New Group.

Hi all you wonderful ethical entrepreneurs! We have started a group to help you make gobs of money with your online store and to help you market your brand. I have been helping companies make money online for years, building ecommerce sites and also teaching people how to be found on Google. I also teach people how to promote their brand online. As founder of http://www.ecofashionworld.com we have become #1 for the Google search phrase "eco fashion". Post your questions and comments in the new… Continue

Added by Eco Fashion World on August 7, 2009 at 17:00 — No Comments

World Congress on Organic Cotton - Reminder

400 practitioners from the business field of organic cotton.

Fashion show with Peter Ingwersen of the label Noir, Marina Spadafora and Davide Grazioli of the label Banuq, the Cameroonian designer Imane Ayissi and one of Ghana's leading designers, Kofi Ansah.

Networking with producers, the processing industrie and retailers from all over the world.

Learning about new marketing… Continue

Added by Patrick of Helvetas on August 6, 2009 at 9:00 — No Comments

The accidental environmentalist

After last week’s mini catastrophe, I think this week’s been rather a success. I have managed (a) not to destroy my computer; (b) not to destroy my poor, lovely husband’s belief that I’m basically a good person; and (c) to find something more fabulous than the fabulous cord I lost. Any one of those things is frankly cause for celebration in my book.

It’s funny how things can turn on a sixpence (or a euro, or whatever it should be now....). After convincing myself it was all over, I… Continue

Added by Catherine Courtauld on August 4, 2009 at 9:12 — 1 Comment

THIS MONTH'S THEME: AFRICA

Are you doing something interesting in AFRICA? We want to hear about it- promote yourself on the network by posting your inspirational story on the blog. Make sure you are a member of the Africa Group!

INSPIRATIONAL STORY: THE YAKAAR NIANI WULLI FEDERATION

There are many textile companies providing needed support to villages and communities across Africa.

A great example of how villages are being… Continue

Added by Spotlight on Sourcing on July 29, 2009 at 11:30 — 13 Comments

New video: sustainable bamboo

Bamboo is touted to be a sustainable fabric, yet it must be highly processed with large chemical or mechanical inputs to create soft fabrics. Instead, we found a much more sustainable way to use bamboo: harvest it in ways that you can continue to harvest over long periods of time, soak the bamboo, then peel the skin and weave it into baskets.

I just posted a new video on TAMMACHAT's YouTube Channel: Weaving Organic Bamboo Baskets in Laos:… Continue

Added by Ellen Agger on July 28, 2009 at 15:21 — No Comments

INNOVATION first winners announced

The first two winners of the INNOVATION competition have been announced - LALESSO and MIA will be showing at Pure London. Watch this space for the announcement of the winners who will be showing at Estethica in September...

Go to the EFF website for more details www.ethicalfashionforum.com/innovation…