Green Options

Hop on over to Coco’s concept boutique “mingling the most coveted fashion and beauty care with sustainability and eco-consciousness. We provide a distinctive assortment of fashion, accessories and beauty products for the most discerning Fashionistas who care about how they look and their impact on our environment.” Here are a few designers we also reviewed over the summertime for example, Kelly B who’s adorable swim wear we love, has some sale items over at Coco’s:

1. The steps to take with your big green purse over at igogreen@ivillage are super. The overview encompasses the whole spectrum of how to tread lightly: buy less, read the label, support sustainable standards, look for third party verification, choose fewer ingredients, use less packaging, and buy local.
2. Ecostiletto has some great resources and news from the eco experts. Their definition of “Green” is to consider the word, not as label or a certification, but as a state of mind that means the product is created through environmentally and socially conscious means.

Very recently we shared the green kick off for NY Fashion Week with the opening event hosted by BeEcoChic, that in my view has BeEcoMe a fabulous place to read up on resources. For more fashion week updates, see stunning eco-collective EKO LAB (collection snapshots shown below)

which Inhabitat predicted would become the hottest in eco chic this fall together with collaborative ekovaruhuset. The beautiful lines emerged on the runways this week.

My children have always reminded me of little monkeys. Maybe it is evolutionary or maybe it is my fondness of Curious George.  When I discovered this Kee-Ka’s little organic monkey onesie sold by Manhattan Living Baby, I thought it would make the perfect gift for my new little cousin Avery. Avery is doing little monkey tricks earlier than most babes, and she will look adorable in this organic outfit.

Kee-Ka is named for the sweet babbling of babes, and the company is devoted to eco-chic apparel for little ones.  Eco-chic translates to fair trade, fair wage, 100% certified organic, low impact dyes, social responsibility, charitable contributions, and ecological responsibility.  Of course, babies don’t care about their fashionable onesies, but their bodies deserve only the purest organic fibers against their skin.

I love flipping through Vogue, Lucky or Elle just as much as the next girl, but have longed for a green version.   I’m so excited to learn about the new non-glossy Boho, one of the first fashion mags dedicated to eco-fashion, green decor, beauty, travel and lifestyle.  It’s aimed at creative, free-spirited, independent women who love fashion and beauty, but also want to make the world a prettier place by giving back and going green.  And it’s printed on 100% post consumer recycled, non-glossy paper with soy-based ink!  So how do you you know if you’re a Boho girl? 

What do you do if you’re a marine biologist with an entrepreneurial streak who wants to indulge it by opening a business, but you want it to be part of the solution, rather than adding to the problem? Open an online eco fashion site, of course.

That’s what Adrian Desbarats, up in Prince Edward Island, on the far east edge of Canada, decided to do. Far from being yet another boutique green fashion site in an obscure location, Desbarats is about to launch a site with high ambitions: To make the buying of sustainable fashions an affordable, quick, painless experience, at great prices.

It’s easy to find expensive green fashion like Natalie Portman’s vegan shoe line and other such boutique items, or on the other side, hippy skewed hempwear. But what if you want fashion for the more everyday, that looks good, wears well, and is reasonably priced? This is where Fashion & Earth aims to fit.

Now the question that came to my mind is, isn’t there other sites out there that do just that? Desbarats was on the case, with a well thought out response:

New t-shirt company Bangledox uses environmentally friendly materials in their clothing line

FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE

June 21st, 2007, Chicago, Ill
–With emerging standards in mind as well as combining cool styles, and
the company’s deep concern for the planet , Bangledox Clothing was
created.

Even after the flood of publications covering green issues and eco-living around April, recycling is still newsworthy. Adorn, the "crafty girl’s guide to embellishing life," is the newest title from NYC’s Soho Publishing, which also publishes the ever-popular Vogue Knitting Magazine. Released quarterly, Adorn’s Fall 2007 issue proudly exclaims "We Love Recycling! Thrift Your Way to New Fashion." With second-hand shops by the dozens here in San Francisco, it’s easy to

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