Natural Dyed and Printed Linen Knit Shrug
Sustainable Fashion
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Friday, October 4, 2013
Colour Trends for Autumn/Winter 2013
Colour plays such an important part of all our lives and our moods. Here is a good article for the colour trends of the coming season. Take a trip to http://catherinesotherndesigns.com and see what is trending in sustainable fashion accessories for the coming season.
Fall 2013 colors for women
The top 10 colour trends according to Pantone
Ahead of the fall 2013 fashion weeks, Pantone released their predictions of the season’s top colour trends. Greens feature heavily, from the number one colour – deep lichen green, a mossy, nature-inspired hue – to the more yellow-based Linden green. Not to mention Pantone’s proclaimed ‘colour of the year’: Emerald Green.
Away from the greens, Pantone predicts Acai purple, Mykonos blue (“Who wouldn’t like to get to a wonderful Greek island and breathe in the beautiful sea air?” notes Leatrice Eiseman, Pantone’s executive director), Samba red and Vivacious pink.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Great Article from Eco Friendly Fashion Blog
‘Portable Pelt’ 2009 by Tara Baoth Mooney
- The fashion industry is the second largest user of water in the world. Pretty scary when there are almost 1 billion people in the world with no safe drinking water source.
- Over 90 million items (or 2 million tonnes) of clothing end up in land fill sites globally each year. (BBC – 2009)
- 150 grams of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals are used to produce the cotton for just one t-shirt.
-Sheep, alpaca, llamas and other wool-bearing animals contribute to the production of methane gas, a major greenhouse gas.
-The growing and harvesting of natural fibers such as cotton and hemp generally use farm tractors and truckswhich run on non-renewable fossil fuels of diesel and gasoline that pour black smoke and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Pop over to their blog to read more, it just might change the way you use natures resources and they way you buy.
Milan Fashion Week Sustainable Fashion
One artisan in the show, Tatiana Stoppa of the Artedi label, expresses the beauty of working ecologically: “I love to give a new life to objects that would usually get thrown away, because I see in every piece the potential of a new beginning. It’s a very spontaneous process.”
Amano ceramic pendant
At ‘So Critical So Fashion’ you may share Stoppa’s creative thrills through different activities: you could participate in a professional photo shoot, complete with a personalised organic make-up session, accompanied by live performances by visual and musical artists, or make your own accessories or outfit in workshops and classes that teach you how to sew recycled materials into clothing, or how to create jewellery from recycled brass and copper.
Indeed, the eco-credentials and savoir-faire of all the brands here are impressive, and they have much to share. Cinzia Mauri of the Amano label explained to me how she makes her line sustainable: “The choice of the materials I pick is in full respect of the environment: the wood I select has a low environmental impact and is recycled, the prints use nontoxic dyes, just at the resins used for buttons and jewels have a zero emission. Besides the dyes I use also focus on diminishing the waste of water, which is usually a delicate issue during this process. Every step is monitored in accordance to eco-standards,” she says.
Amano bag
Surveying the myriad other eco-brands on display at the show, Mauri didn’t feel ‘threatened’ by the ‘competition’ the way that mainstream brands are when they discover which designs and materials their contemporaries are using. What’s more, she didn’t feel that the recently-implemented sustainability policies of better known brands, such as Gucci, would diminish niche brands like hers. On the contrary, she stated: “I’m glad to see that in the past few years also mainstream brands have discovered the importance of sustainability.”
All the textiles in the show are completely natural or recycled
Mauri’s attitude sums up the generally supportive, positive feeling in the eco-fashion world; a sharp contrast to
- See more at: http://eluxemagazine.com/fashion/milan-fashion-weeks-greener-side/#sthash.XEMVaTEu.dpuf
Milan on sustainable fashion during fashion week
MILAN FASHION WEEK’S GREENER SIDE
By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
Milan Fashion Week is notoriously unsustainable. Fendi, Prada, Versace, Miu Miu and other top Italian brands consistently rank an E grade for transparency and eco-friendliness, with the only exception of Gucci, thanks to the Kering Group’s (formerly PPR) strong sustainability policies.
There is one other happy exception to this rule, however: So Critical So Fashion is a parallel fashion event during Milan’s Fashion Week that showcases brands that have come to the ‘Green Side’ of fashion. These labels incorporate natural materials into their products and natural innovation, along with reestablishment of traditional techniques, such as upcycling and creative recycling. This year’s edition will focus on the Made in Italy concept, emphasising the traditional creativity and craftsmanship of this designing nation.
Italian brands like Alberta Ferretti are generally beautiful, but not at all eco-friendly
This year the event will host 60 brands and will be located in the prestigious location of ‘Frigoriferi Milanesi.’ While ‘So Critical So Fashion’ was once a small event, it has currently become a very important appointment to fix on the calendar, especially for eco-chic addicts: a three-day full-immersion on current ethical standards, through a series of events, lectures, workshops and planet-friendly products.
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