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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...
The Skinny on Being a Ralph Lauren Fashionplate
For good reason, Ralph Lauren is distancing himself from this extremely altered photo of model Filippa Hamilton, who at 5′10″ and 120 pounds was allegedly fired for being too fat to wear the designer’s Town and Country fashions. L...
Before Chanel, Coco Was Eco
Not since Scarlett O’Hara upcycled those curtains to make a crazy green velveteen dress have we seen such industrious textile make-overs on the screen. Yes, Anne Fontaine’s Coco Before Chanel is the quintessential tweed rags-to-riches sag...
Josie Maran on the Best Natural Makeup Trends for Fall
Green girl Josie Maran has modeled for Glamour and Sports Illustrated and she’s appeared in films like The Aviator and Van Helsing. Now she’s an eco-entrepreneur whose eponymous cosmetic line is one of the best on the market. What qualifies ...
Smart Shopping Is Always Green
There are some of us who have cut waaaaay back, but just can’t quit cold turkey. And I don’t mean smoking, although I did quit recently. (Yay for me!) The can’t quit I’m referring to here is shopping. I can admit my faults and this is certain...
Meadow Designs Loungewear Giveaway
It’s Saturday and you know what that means! We’ve given you a best-selling wrap dress from Mountains of the Moon and a statement necklace by muichic crafted from kakua nuts and braided hemp. Today we’re bringing you a grab at somet...
Here’s a Little Ditty about Henry and Kate (But More About Henry)
Henry Schwab of Kate Organic, Synergy Organic and son There are lots of men thriving in some way or another in the eco-fashion world. We’ve decided to give them a plug as it’s often their female counterparts getting the buzz on EcoSalon. In fact,...
A T-Shirt’s Evolution
If you’re anything like Andy Bowness of Hide Your Arms, a blog about hoodies and t-shirts (why the heck not have a blog about them, right?) then you’ve got a lot to think about. Especially with over 200 t-shirts in his cache. For most of us, a la...
Reif Sweater Giveaway
Colder days are coming. Maybe they’re already here for you. Time to think about sweaters and layering, which is exactly what the Germaine Pullover from Reif is all about. Stand alone or layered with a tight fitting long sleeve t-shirt, we’re in ...
Suicide Farmers See Hope in Sustainable Farming
Here’s an article to stop you in your tracks. Ecotextile News reports on the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India -an area troubled by its farmer suicide problem – and the tribal area of Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh. For those of you not aw...
The Devil Wears Fur and Her Hurt on Her Sleeve
Welcome to The September Issue, a frockumentary chronicling the genius behind the fattest ever edition of Vogue, weighing in at over four pounds, reaching 13 million readers and boosting the sinking morale of the $300-billion global fashion industry...
Notes from the Underground
Anna Korte of AK Vintage, me and Gretchen Jones of Mothlove meeting face to face for the first time during NYC Market Week I just got back from selling at D&A during New York City’s Market Week and am tired. Like, I can’t get out of bed, don...
Laura Jones, SUST Ambassador Checks In
The Sustainability Across America Tour is a journey to bring the eco-movement to the people in a grassroots, human kind of way. I’m Laura Jones, a writer armed with my curiosity, my laptop and a VW van. I’m traveling around the USA to deliver thi...
Sharing Family Garb Is Good Savings (if You Can Stand the Loan)
My lovely, celebrity-style dressing room is a spare bedroom I stole in the house, a spare that once housed a maple crib, green nursing glider and armoire of precious, spit-up stained Baby Gap dresses on mini-hangers. Today, it’s my own little r...
Fall’s Top 10 (Sustainable) Fashion Trends
Fall’s top fashion trends are running us ragged trying to keep up. Are we going demure and aviator-ready or punking out with neons and crazy bare midriffs? One thing is for sure, we’ve got a lot to choose from, which is good if your life is multi...
Not Your Mama’s Birkenstock
Imagine a small German village inhabited by a young shoemaker named Johann Birkenstock. Birkenstock creates comfy shoes for villagers, launching (though he’ll never know it) a new approach to footwear and a label that will be recognized by mi...
