All Blog Posts Tagged 'sustainable' (106)

Rapanui recognised for 'spirit in approaching the challenges of sustainability' at the Sustainable Business Awards 2010

Rapanui, the Eco Surfwear brand from the Isle of Wight, has won the Sustainable Business Awards for its commitment to sustainability and passion for doing business the right way. The brand, co founded by two under-25 year old brothers is the youngest business to win the award.

Rapanui, founded by brothers Martin and Rob…

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Added by Ethical Fashion Forum on June 1, 2010 at 9:05 — No Comments

Fashion Fusion Expo 2010

Leblas Ethical Jewellery attended the 2-day Fashion Fusion Expo 2010 to…

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Added by Nina Tukaj on March 21, 2010 at 0:33 — No Comments

MORALFIBRE -WE LOVE THE TUNICS!

I am very impressed with the quality of dressmaking. I have never ever seen such well made garments! Lucky You!’ Said a Mum to a proud owner of MORALFIBRE’s one of the ‘ Sunshade Tunics’ in New Zealand.…

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Added by shailini sheth amin on March 8, 2010 at 0:45 — No Comments

A new face of Brazilian fashion

How Brazilian fashion allies sustainability…

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Added by Nana Soma on February 24, 2010 at 15:45 — No Comments

Creative Couture – ‘As You Like it’ – “wear the way you like”

August Designs (www.august.synthasite.com) after the groundbreaking ethical / eco DPOL fashion innovation has come up with a new concept in the arena of fashion. The new Collection “As you like it” gives a meaning to fashion altogether.

"As you like it" as the name speaks is based on the concept of multiple look of single garment as per one's choice. The ensembles can be worn in two different ways- Regular way (option 1), or upside down… Continue

Added by siddhartha on December 30, 2009 at 17:17 — No Comments

Fashion Summit 2009 & Climate Change Conference: Copenhagen

Climate change demands that we closely examine the rapid change that the environment is undergoing and its causes, and the respective effects that these changes have on economic and human development. It begs us to act wisely for a healthy and prosperous future. Eco-enterprise is one flexible and effective approach toward constructing more socially responsible business practices. Apart from economic prosperity, it helps to return social by-products like community unification and participation… Continue

Added by Ibada Wadud on December 10, 2009 at 10:05 — No Comments

Touch2Give.com JUST LAUNCHED! Social responsible shopping portal for independent brands & in partnership with EFF

Touch2Give.com is a new shopping portal for independent & emerging brands. From fashion forward sustainable & ethical brands to luxury couture brands, we want to unite desginers from all over the world. United we can impact the industry.

Touch2Give gives 5% of what it earns to support our philanthrhopy partners. Our first partnership is with ROOM TO READ to fund their Girls Education… Continue

Added by Claire Chung on December 8, 2009 at 1:00 — 1 Comment

Fashion films on Ethical TV

Ethical TV is the online TV channel dedicated to ethical trading and international development issues. Since the official launch in April, Ethical TV has developed a very interesting range of films from organisations from across the world.

We would be happy to receive films about ethical fashion, please get in touch with tania@handupmedia.co.uk and visit http://www.ethical.tv when time permits.

We are also looking… Continue

Added by Tania Pramschufer on September 3, 2009 at 11:33 — 2 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

Cutting Edge Ethical fashion in Asia

Hi, I have a design, sourcing & sales business creating products lines for Brands.

The new website www.katieyoungdesign.com is newly launched and we have some great success stories from our collaborations.

We have recently designed and delivered the manufacture of a raincoat made from recycled plastic bottles and we are about start selling it here. We would love to hear from you if you would like to buy one, could reccomend a stockist or… Continue

Added by Katie Young on May 23, 2009 at 14:42 — 2 Comments

Hot Male Models & Eco-Chic Designers—All at the University of Delaware Fashion Week

Tonight the Fashion Merchandising Club led by Rita Chang will kick off the first-ever-on-campus Fashion Week at... the University of Delaware!

What, what?! You got it!

These young style-conscious students at the Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies are gearing up for a 6-day series of exciting events, ranging from an eco-chic student designer competition to a sizzling-hot male model lionwalk! Woo hoo, go YoUDee!

This evening, 11 students will present their… Continue

Added by Francesco Di Maio on May 11, 2009 at 22:30 — No Comments

WHERE fashion

Hi,

I am the product designer for WHERE fashion.

We are quite a young brand and we make shoes, belts and handbags.

We offer fashion products with an added edge: we are committed to fair trade and sustainable design.

Please check our website, blog and shop.

http://www.wherefashion.co.uk/

Thanks

Laura

Added by Laura on April 23, 2009 at 19:11 — 2 Comments

Prophetik Jeff Garner's Organic Revival

Several weeks ago I posted an article entitled, London Fashion Week: Doubly Green, in which I presented several eco-brands that debuted this year at estethica—London Fashion Week's green initiative.

One of the companies featured was Prophetik—an eco-friendly company based in Tennessee that manifests art, love, poetry, and internal freedom and supports numerous charities around the world.

After requesting an interview several weeks ago, designer and owner Jeff Garner… Continue

Added by Francesco Di Maio on April 14, 2009 at 4:00 — No Comments

Too Sustainable to Design for even the worlds most Sustainable retailer?????......

Well, what can I say? Whoever would have thought that in this time of heightened awareness, and even trendy street cred, of global issues such as climate change, peak oil, global warming and social responsibility that a Designer can be professionally discrimated against by the UK highstreets seemingly most progressive, sustainable retailer.....for being too Sustainable?!? That indeed was what happened to me this week. I am totally shocked, and honestly quite disgusted, that a company who won… Continue

Added by Emma Kidd on April 12, 2009 at 12:29 — No Comments

The real costs of upcycling and manufacturing in the UK

We at Worn Again have set out the ambitious vision of encouraging a shift in manufacturing back to the UK by moving our production of upcycled products close to home after our beginnings in China and later to Portugal.

After an enlightening journey visiting what used to be a thriving hub of manufacturing in the UK, in Coventry and Manchester, I'm left musing the following and pondering solutions...

Fact number one. 'Upcycling' or making products out of disused materials… Continue

Added by Cyndi Rhoades on April 5, 2009 at 16:02 — No Comments

Izzy Lane Sings on for Animal Sanctity

In my article London Fashion Week: Doubly Green, I featured four menswear designers that exhibited at estethica—the green initiative of London Fashion Week, which requires participants to adhere to the three guiding principles of organic, fair trade, and/or recycled.

After posting the article, I had the extraordinary privilege to interview Isobel Davies of Izzy Lane, a voice crying out in the wilderness for the sanctity of animals that can only baa or bleat. When I spoke by… Continue

Added by Francesco Di Maio on March 27, 2009 at 11:14 — 1 Comment

Veja's Green Gooooal!

Several weeks ago I posted an article entitled, London Fashion Week: Doubly Green, in which I presented several eco-brands that debuted at estethica—London Fashion Week's green initiative.

One of the companies featured was Veja, a Paris-based company that designs comfortable shoe wear inspired by 1970's Brazilian volleyball styles and produced by coops in the remote Amazon. Intrigued by Veja's three pillars of ethics, I requested an exclusive interview, to which the company responded… Continue

Added by Francesco Di Maio on March 20, 2009 at 22:53 — No Comments

Rubia Pigmenta Naturalia

After posting my 2-part interview with sustainable designer and artist John Patrick, I received an email from his Dutch friend, Anco Sneep, director of Rubia Pigmenta Naturalia, which produces a natural red dye that dates back to over two millenia:

"A world without colour is barely conceivable for us. Nature provides for colour all around and anything we create, we create in colour. And–we’ve been doing so for thousands of years. Primeval human beings already used colours to outline… Continue

Added by Francesco Di Maio on March 13, 2009 at 0:29 — No Comments

John Patrick's Organic Hat

John Patrick is actually a man of many hats!

His first was a beanie of macrobiotic foods when he grew up in the counter-culture revolution of the 60's. But he soon exchanged that one for the cap of communal living in the 1970’s.

With no formal training or experience, John Patrick launched his career in 1982, literally from the top down, by making head wear out of vintage finds. He sported the chapeau of women's fashion designer for the next 20 years.

In 2002,… Continue

Added by Francesco Di Maio on March 8, 2009 at 16:58 — No Comments

Michael Londrigan on the Recession, Sustainability & the Future of Menswear

What are your thoughts on sustainability and menswear; for example, are green trends making inroads?

"You raise valid questions regarding green and sustainability, but my contention is that menswear is inherently sustainable. Think about it compared to women’s wear, which is pretty much disposable clothing. What a woman wears one season, you will not see the next (of course, this is a generalization but one that holds truth). Whereas menswear, you invest in pieces—a suit, sport coat,… Continue

Added by Francesco Di Maio on March 8, 2009 at 16:57 — No Comments