This weeks Eco Fashion designer overview is on the amazing work of Paris based designer, Marc le Bihan. Honoring craftmanship and traditon, le Bihan painstakingly deconstructs vintage garments and combines them with the finest luxury fabrications to produce his ethereal…

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Great jubilation today over the rescue of a woman alive after 17 days in the rubble of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. But we also learnt that the death toll is now 1,021 and rising. 

Shoppers want to support ethical traders, but everyone in the fashion industry says it is soooo complex, that it is almost impossible to follow the manufacturing chain when you have to look at not only the factories where the clothes are  made, but to the shippers, the farmers who grow the cotton,…

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Inspired by the women of the 1940’s, “Rosie the Riveter” and the dawn of female equality, Pure Pod’s…

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The Bangladesh  tragedy (which is now reporting more than 800 dead and 2,500 people rescued alive) has us all questioning what we buy, who produced it and what kind of businesses we are supporting. Celebrating the upcoming Mother’s Day and World Fair Trade Day on the same weekend has been more appropriate.

Mothers have a reputation of appreciating (almost) any Mother’s Day present, but this year they may look at their gifts at little differently.  What might have been considered a…

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This weeks Eco Fashion Designer Overview is on Andrea Zittel, and her ongoing experimentation and exploration in living as it relates to clothing, and a feature from my book Eco Fashion.…

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Ny Thread Trend now has Samantha Pleet dresses…

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In France, fashion forefront, we can experience the pleasure brought by…

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In an article in the Irish Times today (see link below) I advocated putting pressure on one of the one most influential groups with international retail chains and big brands -- the biggest buyers of their shares: pension and investment fund managers. The latter are people all of us directly or indirectly have some clout with because they want us to buy their pension and investment products. Remember we cannot advocate consumer boycotts of Bangladesh garments as the workers would suffer most as… Continue