Reports from the BioFach: in Search for Organic Cotton
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 6 Comments »Everything organic on the BioFach? Maybe for food it mostly was. But visiting all the textile related stands on the BioFach, I had some remarkable encounters. At a stand where they had a good looking offer of organic cotton materials, ...
Photo Impressions from the BioFach Organics Fair
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Consume, Trends & Marketing | 1 Comment »A lot of different visitors on the BioFach organics fair: between all the neat suits and organic products one could spot quite some styles and cultures...
Reports from the Biofach: Life Elixer from Makava
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Products, Trends & Marketing | 1 Comment »On the blogger meeting, I met a few Austrian guys who just started their own biological, fair trade lemonade brand called MAKAvA. Being about the same stage with our ethical fashion brand Pamoyo, it is fun to hear the stories ...
Reports from Biofach: De Leckere, one of the Best Dutch Special Beers in the World
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Products | 1 Comment »The international organic fair BioFach has an incredible offer of organic foods. For all I am amazed by all the innovative and luxurious products offered. Finest biological Belgian chocolate, in exciting new tastes, the best Italian pestos, exotic local fruits ...
Reports from the Biofach Organic Fair: Bloggers Regarded as Press
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Web | 1 Comment »The Biofach is the largest business to business fair on organic products worldwide. While the leading fair is in Germany, other BioFach fairs are hold in USA, China, Japan and Brazil. The BioFach in Germany welcomes about 45.000 professionals in ...
Green & Recycling Fashion in Nuremberg (Germany): Duenda and the Glore Store
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion, Recycling | 2 Comments »The best things come per coincidence. Yesterday I travelled to Nuremberg to visit the BioFach Messe, the largest professionals fair on organic products in the world (more reports later). I had my trip last minute booked through the German online ...
Sexy Ethics & Dirty Business: the Edgy Fashion Game of American Apparel
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Products, Trends & Marketing | 2 Comments »American Apparel clothes are so fucking sexy. And they are so amazingly social to their workers. Wow! They care about their employers so much. But, well, maybe a bit too much... I was in an American Apparel store just yesterday and ...
Stylish Vegan Footwear by Bourgeois Boheme
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion | 5 Comments »Bourgeois Boheme, an online animal-friendly fashion boutique, has recently launched its own stylish footwear for men and women named Espiritual and Jiva. The shoes are handmade and ethically produced in Portugal and India. The range is made of microfibre, an eco-friendly ...
Recycling Fashion with Recycle Your Jeans
Saturday, February 16th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Recycling | 3 Comments »Recycle your jeans is a business that turns your own old jeans into new, funky sandals. You send them your old pair of jeans, and they make a pair of shoes or sandals out of them. The sandals are made ...
New York Fashion Week goes Green: Ekovarahuset & Earth Pledge Future Fashion Show
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion | 2 Comments »Recently fashion shows and fashion weeks gave a lot of attention to the topic of Green Fashion. The New York Fashion Week was stuffed with different shows giving attention to the topic, in example one by Swedish eco fashion ...
Green is Sexy and Organic Underwear is Getting Hot
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion | No Comments »Green is sexy - and new cool green fashion is combating the old eco-stereotypes succesfully. And new organic underwear lines are giving green lifestyle a fresh, kinky sex appeal. If you consider trying out some eco-clothing, underwear is not the worst to ...
Organic Exchange & MADE BY Celebrate Organic and Sustainable Fashion in Europe
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion | No Comments »Organic Exchange and MADE-BY are joining forces to launch a series of training sessions for brands and retailers, to support the growth of the sustainable fashion industry. Both organizations work on the support of a more sustainable fashion industry. On ...
Recykling Multiplikacje: Eco-Fashion Event in Poland
Saturday, February 9th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Recycling | 1 Comment »As Summer Rayne Oaks, model and face of the ethical fashion show in Paris, predicted lately that more and more local and national green fashion events will occur and that green fashion will continue to grow. I was lately wondering ...
New Home for ID22, Institute for Creative Sustainability
Friday, February 8th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Environment | No Comments »As a symbolic new start, Berlin's institute for creative sustainability celebrated it's new home in Prenzlauer Berg on Chinese New Year, introducing the year of the rat. Moving from it's former base in the cultural community UfaFabrik, the institute now ...
Premium Fall/Winter 2008/09: a Bit of Green and a Lot of Grey
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | No Comments »With the Premium slogan "Save the future!", a green area, "green living" statements on the PR material and it's central symposium with the title "eco is not a trend" the Premium Exhibitions during the Berlin Fashion Week dared to profile ...
"The Children Behind Our Cotton" - Report on Child Labour by the Environmental Justice Foundation
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fair Trade, Fashion | No Comments »With all the positive news about new ethical fashion trends, one sometimes forgets to also stay aware about the negative sides of clothing production. In December the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) published a new report on child labour in the ...
Berlin Fashion Week reports: Room to Roam, Young Organic Fashion from Munich
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »Room to Roam - "the new breath of freedom blowing through a well-assorted wardrobe." Actually there is more cool, German ethical fashion labels than one might think. On the Premium exhibition, we met the people behind the label Room to Roam. ...
Berlin Fashion Week Reports: Mayi, Serene Ethical Fashion from Vienna
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion | No Comments »Mayi is a young, ethical fashion brand from Vienna by artist and designer Maye Riess. The clothes are serene and subtle, using white and light colors, and round, arty screen prints. The label produces one-of-a-kinds, the screen prints are hand ...
Berlin Fashion Week reports: Federal Office for Garment
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »The streets of Berlin are crowded from German and international fashionistas, as the Berlin Fashion Week is hitting the city. Some small reports from your Grass Routes agents... Bundesamt für Bekleidung At the Premium fair visitors were invited to analyze their clothing ...