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When Diamonds Fight Back
Diamonds have long been considered a girl’s best friend but it’s time for a reality check. Aside from the fact that having an inanimate best friend is just wrong, your diamond fetish is financing rebel armies. If you’re not familia...
The Unlist: 9 Holiday Gifts Not to Buy
I’m so over the annual mandatory retail blitz which prompts us to purchase scads of presents no one needs (and few can afford). Enough is enough. Necessity is one thing; waste is another. Be an angel and give material items only to the needy...
Doucette Duvall Little Green Dress Giveaway
Doucette Duvall’s “LGD” Little black dresses? Totally overrated. But the little green dress? Well now, that’s something entirely more refreshing. In fact, it’s downright minty! Whether puffed sleeve baby doll or Audrey...
Getting a Charge Out of Dutch Designer’s Flare Fashion
This little LED number called Flare is the sustainable party girl’s answer to looking beautiful and technically tailored. Imagine showing up at the company holiday party aglow in the Stijn Ossevoort creation! In spite of all the buzz from the ...
Getting Our Green On at EcoSalon
The hard working contributors, columnists and editors at EcoSalon are earning their green stripes, blazing the trails and taking their proven commitment to sustainable living beyond the daily blog. Our strides are so darn exciting, we simply canR...
Pop Up Shops Are an Eco Hit This Holiday Season
Everyone’s talking pops. Maybe it’s because the holiday season and its consequent consumption mania is upon us, but pop up shops are hot. Gauging the type of brands that are taking part in this pop-up shop phenomenon, however, reveals pl...
Zip Is Hip, Again! Babes in Biker Jackets Go Organic
Organic John Patrick Everywhere you look you see them, even on the non-hog riding gang. Call them rebels with a cause – a need to look trendy while making a statement about planet-friendly fibers. Biker jackets! The fashion trend comes full ci...
D.S. & Durga Perfume Giveaway for Scentuous Souls
If I could bathe myself in a scent it would be D.S. & Durga’s Grapefruit. The simplicity of citrus may not sound exotic but the marriage of floral fruit with Jamaican Pirate Seeds from the high seas yields an intoxicating blend. Created by...
Getting Inspired By Lucky Magazine’s Andrea Linett
Lucky magazine’s Creative Director Andrea Linett Ever flip through Lucky magazine to the end and see the Fashion Babble page with the caricature of Andrea Linett? Here’s an actual photo of her. Her vibe has always screamed sexy to me, as...
TRAID to Fight Global Poverty
There’s a lot to learn from the cool UK example of raising funds to share the wealth. Take Oxfam, for instance, and their ethical and secondhand shops whose funds raise money for relief efforts around the globe. They do great work and offer us...
A Living Dahl: T-Shirt Dress Giveaway from a Project Runway Alum
Tiered T-shirt Dress by Dahl One of my very favorite designers, Alison Kelly of Project Runway fame, is finally coming over to the green side where eco-designers dwell. Look for a small capsule collection she and her soul mate, Dane Risch, are putti...
Track My T Please
Anvil CSR The t-shirt. How many are crammed in your drawers? You may not think of this everyday fashion staple as making a big eco dent, but if you trace the tee you’ll quickly see how it can work as an effective instrument for change. Anvil K...
Project Green Search Judges Talk Avalon
Rachel Avalon, 2009 Project Green Search winner Have you followed the progress of Project Green Search? It’s a recent contest that closed recently with winner, Rachel Avalon, being “crowned.” Aysia Wright of Greenloop and Remy Chev...
Danger: Cutout Dresses Walking This Way
Poppomomo Hells bells. Stop eating that Halloween candy, girl! Like an epiphany, it dawned on me today that spring is just five months away, and I chucked my Heath Bar into the compost. True, we’re scarcely into winter, but the spring fashion aler...
Necklush Giveaway
I’ve recently become obsessed with knitted, knotted and voluptuous necklaces like this organic cotton piece by Necklush. Sustainable designer, Lara Miller, recently turned me on to the line and I love what they’re doing joining scarf and...
Walking the Talk: Adventures in Launching My Eco Boutique
At the Shift launch party Friday, November 6th For all the eco there is, it still isn’t easy being green. I say that knowing this will change, but I needed only to open my own sustainable boutique to discover, “Houston, we have problems.” My ...
EcoMeme: The New ‘Niners & Gold Rush
First Kanye West and Jamie Foxx, now gold diggers have upset environmentalists and economists. It’s been like 1849 online with blogs abuzz over gold prices, prospectors and water use in California. The precious metal is priced at a record dollar hi...
Love Heals in More Ways Than One
Love Heals “Freedom Deliverance” In a perfect world, every piece of our jewelry collections would help plant trees or save an at-risk child from blindness or slavery. Sound far-fetched? Not if it’s Love Heals jewelry. Based out of ...
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...
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 No...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 o...
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...
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. Drape...
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. He...
Sustainably Successful: Men in Eco-Fashion Part 2
Kevin Baum, CEO of Sust and Moriah Carlson of Feral Childe at the recent NOW Showcase in NYC October marches on with another look at men in eco-fashion. Kevin Baum, CEO of sustainable label Sust, is one of many men carrying a well-lit torch for the ...
In Search of an Oxford of a Certain Size
Shoes they come and shoes they go, but once in a while you want something that stands out. There will always be the perfect black pump, the brown or black tall boot and the go-to flats with your very own toe impressions (they’re that go-to). ...
Modaspia Fiji Dress Giveaway
Modaspia’s Fiji Dress is something of an icon in the eco-fashion world when it comes to “go-to” dresses, which is why designer Ursula Dean produces the style seasonally. This organic cotton and hemp indigo denim number is perfect f...
