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New York Green Fashion Week: School Girl Charm Meets Downtown Chic in Samantha Pleet Spring 2011 (Slideshow)

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Samantha Pleet at New York Green Fashion Week. Credit: Elisa Hyman At New York Green Fashion Week Tuesday night, Samantha Pleet presented a mystical and romantic eco chic collection for Spring 2011. Inspired by French New Wave films and the band Beach House, Samantha’s design aesthetic is rooted in a classic style, with modern appeal. For Spring 2011, the Brooklyn-based designer sho… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New York Green Fashion Week: Ashton Michael Black Label Shows Asexual and Seasonless Clothing (Slideshow)

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Ashton Michael Black Label at New York Green Fashion Week. Credit: Emma Grady For anyone in a loving relationship, Ashton Michael Black Label ‘s spring 2011 collection is not for you: inspired by English rocker Morrissey and “broken relationships,” the distressed knits and bondage-esque clothing is asexual, with a rock n’ roll aesthetic. Click through for photos of the seasonless collection, and hear more from designer Ashton Hirota, who says, “saving Mother Earth can still be rock n’ roll.”

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New York Fashion Week: A Fresh Look at Edun Spring 2011 (Slideshow)

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

For ethical fashion label Edun , founded by U2 front man Bono and his wife Ali Hewson , achieving their goal of creating more jobs in Africa, one of the company’s founding principles back in 2005, has to be simultaneously developed with creating a product that is in high demand. On September 11, Edun showed their S… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sourcing Sustainable Fabrics Made Easy with New Online Marketplace from Summer Rayne Oakes

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Source 4 Style, screenshot of development site. Image courtesy of Source 4 Style When I caught up with Summer Rayne Oakes at a Fashion Delivers event in June , she only briefly mentioned her forthcoming project: Source 4 Style , an online marketing platform to help fashion and interior designers source sustainable textiles by connecting them directly with suppliers. Founded b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: Déjà Vu. Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf, Climate Change Blamed for Melting Himalayan Glaciers, and More (Slideshow)

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

It’s Déjà Vu all over again: An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP’s massive oil spill. In other green news this week, the US Geological Survey has released a new report on the state of glacier retreat in the Himalaya, stating that “Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change”; Animal Planet’s new miniseries Blood Dolphin delves deeper into the dolphin hunts in Japan; and we reveal exclusive photos of secret titan redwood trees, located … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Few Green Highlights at Istanbul Fashion Week

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A design by Özgür Masur from Argande ‘s 2010-2011 fall-winter collection. Istanbul was abuzz last week about the latest efforts to position the city as a new fashion capital and help Turkey move from manufacturer of raw materials for clothing to purveyor of style. The third Istanbul Fashion Week drew plenty of press and party-goers and even a few fashion-world celebrities . But was th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Textiles and Eco-Clothing at the Royal College of Art Summer Show

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

All Images by B. Alter: Jrumchai Singalavanij With ecological and sustainable fashion growing more popular, it’s important that students be interested and involved in this area: they are the future. In which case we are in luck: at this year’s Royal College of Art Summer Graduate show there are some fascinating new designers on their way up. Jrumchai Singalavanij is committed; she makes all of her creations out of recycled bits from the textile industry and transforms them so that they can be woven. Her pieces are fa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Old Newspapers Get a Colorful (and Functional) Makeover with Holstee’s Recycled Wallets (Photos)

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: courtesy of Holstee. From the makers of the eco-hipster tee comes a recycled wallet made from old plastic bags and newspapers collected from the streets of Delhi. New York-based eco-fashion brand Holstee has partnered with a non-profit in India to help provide employment to those often referred to as ‘rag pickers.’ Holstee’s slim wallets are minimalist in design and safely store your essentials: metro card, credit card, ID, etc. Each wallet has a one-of-a-kind pattern and is made with 90… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Green Fashion Pioneer Kuyichi Opens First Concept Store in the UK

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via TreeHugger We’ve been covering eco-fashion denim brand Kuyichi since 2004 , when TreeHugger was still in its formative years. Founded in 2001, by international NGO Solidaridad , the sustainable brand — and winner of our Best of Green Award for Non-U.S.–based Casual Brand — has spread to more than 500 stores across Europe and now they have their very own … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Little Black Dress that Functions as Your Cell Phone, Too

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: CuteCircuit via Ecouterre Always misplacing your mobile? CuteCircuit makes it easy to catch calls on the go with their forthcoming M-dress (Mobile Phone Dress), which I read about in Ecouterre . The hip-hugging soft-circuitry cellphone dress has a built in antenna — conveniently concealed in its hem — and accepts a SI… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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