Green Options

This is a great tee by Fox In Mociun, a cute collaboration from organic designers Caitlin Mociun & Alyson Fox. The two are very good friends that share great talents.

Their work is described as “heavy on the prints and streamlined silhouettes…they form timeless pieces that could be termed wearable art”

“TONIC TAPS FASHION DESIGNER LUELLA BARTLEY TO CREATE ~ LIMITED EDITION T-SHIRTS”

Bartley is a UK based fashion designer who we wrote about recently for her strategic partnerships with Environmental Justice and other caring designers.

Luella, has now created a new line of ethical threads for Tonic T-Shirts. Their creative organic t-shirts make for a great gift this holiday season:

“A for-profit company with a new business model, TONIC partners with secular non-profits working around the globe, who make huge differences in four key areas — the environment, education, poverty and social welfare. Each TONIC t-shirt collection is designed to aid in implementing philanthropic programs with measurable, impactful, global and relevant outcomes.”

Here are the four tees to benefit four causes (Shown above clockwise are the cute t-shirts and the charity) they’ve partnered up with:

1. The Robin Tee: “For students in Abricots, Haiti, shoes are one of the most expensive, yet most needed items. Sneakers are the preferred choice of assistance because many students walk miles through mountainous and rocky roads and trails to get to school every day.”

• Each Robin Tee sold will provide a pair of sneakers to a student in Abricots, Haiti
• Partner: Friends of Paradis des Indiens
• Goal: 2,500 Tees = 2,500 pairs of sneakers

2. The Pagan Sun Tee: Coral reefs are one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth and one of the essential life-support systems of the planet, that supply one-tenth of the fish for island and coastal people. “Funds must be raised to ensure the conservation of threatened and endangered coral reefs and their surrounding marine ecosystems around the world.“

Gazing at the Turk and Taylor site I feel the comfort and softness in their gorgeous new fall collection. The following looks caught my eye:

This season, in search of the hottest summer organic tee, we @ FGS had the most serendipitous opportunity to interview Gali of brilliant BAN T-SHIRTS ~ Deconstructing Society->

1. How do you brainstorm designs for the shirts? More specifically, what is your favorite tee and why?

My inspiration for the designs comes from reading and using a little bit of imagination. It’s the kind of thing that takes practice, I think the more you exercise your imagination the more pleasing the results are. My favourite tee right now is Only sheep need a shepherd. It just represents what my site is about - doing things your own way and not following the crowd. It can be interpreted in various ways: religious, political, ideological, etc.

2. What does the word “Sustainability” mean to your organization?

Sustainability is about leaving the Earth in a better state than we found it. To me that is the simplest way of describing it. We are increasing the number of organic t-shirts that we have available, and I hope that soon they will all be organic. We also use American made shirts because we believe that the employees get a living wage.

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.