Sweat & Shop Revisited
Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Design, Environment, Fashion | 1 Comment »Under the provocative name Sweat & Shop, Fashion designers, NGO representatives, experts, students, and bloggers gathered about a week ago to discuss the topic of sustainability and fashion. The workshop was organized by sustainability network 3plusX, the Grass Routes Foundation ...
Beyond Green: Dutch Sustainable Fashion Event
Monday, November 10th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »Event tip: this Wednesday 12 November there is an international symposium entitlied Beyond Green, A Fashion Odyssey in the World Fashion Centre in Amsterdam. The aim of the symposium is to provide information to students and teaching staff in higher education, ...
Is Fashion a Dressed up Dinosaur?
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment, Fashion | 1 Comment »According to Permaculture co-founder David Holmgren we have enough clothing produced for the coming 20 years, so we don't need to waste our resources or time any more on clothing production, and can just let fashion die out like a ...
Organic Cotton Shirts for Nazi’s?
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 4 Comments »Okay, more and more people are getting to know about organic cotton. But organic cotton Nazi shirts? I just read on a post on the german blog Korrekte Klamotten that some Nazi postorder company sells nice Nazi shirts made ...
Coolest Designers of the Ethical Fashion Show
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Design, Fashion | No Comments »The Ethical Fashion Show 2008 is over again. For those who can't wait till the next edition, the Ethical Fashion Show is also opening in Milan and Rio de Janairo, as we heard when we spoke with Isabelle Quehe, founder ...
Green up the World with Grass Routes!
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 3 Comments »It all started a few years ago. Cecilia came across the difficulties to find fair trade shirts for fair prices, and so we started investigating. We got excited of how many projects actually exist, and just wondered why we knew ...
Chinchilla Fur + Polyester = Eco Fashion?
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »Japanese designer and furrier, Chie Imai, created an collection with the promising title "Eco Harmony", mixing chinchilla and mink fur and recycled polyester. “Tying ecology with fur is such a fascinating concept,” says Imai. “Fur can be worn for generations, ...
Atelier Sales at Eco Streetwear Label Slowmo
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »Slowmo is a cool, green streetwear label from Berlin Friedrichshain, and this weekend they have sales at their Atelier.The clothes are made from 100% organic cotton and produced locally in Berlin. Felicia Moss, the designer of the label, told me ...
Baacode: Meet the Sheep that Made Your Sweater
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 1 Comment »No it's not the first of April and this is a serious thing. A New Zealand company called Icebreaker developed a tracking system called the Baacode to track back the farm where the wool of an individual sweater comes from. Every ...
Green booktip: Sustainable Fashion & Textiles
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Books, Fashion | 2 Comments »How to green up your lifestyle in only 10 minutes! Green your wardrobe! Go eco-sexy! Over the last year, quite a bunch of books on sustainable fashion and eco-chic ifestyle guides saw the light. Not all of go much further then ...
Obama’s organic cotton tees
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Politics | 1 Comment »From an early stage, US presidential candidate Barack Obama has been an object of style, and inspired artists in many different disciplines. Lately with a new clip featuring organic cotton celeb Bono and circus. As a style icon, Obama's ready ...
New Eco Fashion Founds
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »There's so much going on in eco fashion land, it's hard to cover it. For the eco fashion addicts among you, here are some good and fun resources I discovered the last couple of months: Eco Fashion World Your Biggest Bang Ecofashioned Ecostyletto Eco Fashion ...
Green Fashion Party in Berlin
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »This Saturday there's a Green Fashion Party at the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, with shows by the Berlin labels Magdalena Schaffrin and Caro E. Later on the evening there's the show "All Green" by Skunkfunk. The creative brand Skunkfunk just ...
Meeting with Ecofashionjunkies
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion | 3 Comments »Just met up with Philipp from Ecofashionjunkies, a fresh new blog on ecofashion and quite promising. We had a lunch at the organic, vegetarian snackbar Yellow Sunshine around the corner of my house. Ecofashionjunkies is a fresh new blog on ecofashion ...
Free Tibet Shoes by Komodo
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Products | 1 Comment »I just had a good long lunch with Gereon from Komodo and afterwards picked up these cool Free Tibet shoes at their new Berliner showroom in the Oranienstrasse. They are going to be on sale in February next year so ...
Green Fashion Stores by Oxfam
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Recycling | 2 Comments »In London, NGO Oxfam has redesigned it's stores to become eco-fashion hotspots. Located in trendy areas, they sell donated designer items, and a mix of fair trade and organic clothing including chic stuff from Chloe, Stella McCartney and Junky Styling. ...
Eco Fashion Network Meeting in Berlin
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | No Comments »Last weekend during the Berlin Fashion Week we organized a network meeting with Karmakonsum for the German eko fashion scene. 35 designers, shop owners and bloggers got together in Bio Restaurant Diwan and had an inspiring and fruitful evening. It ...
Korrekte Klamotten: Meeting the German Eco-Fashion Scene
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »Under the name Korekte Klamotten a group of German eco-fashion labels have started a collective blog to share their news about new collections and upcoming events. The blog is started by the shirtlabel Fairliebt and until now Slowmo, B-Green and ...
ÖkoRausch & Sommerkiosk: Events for Eco-Design
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Design | No Comments »While we at Grass Routes are still clearing the details for the next Fair Fashion in Berlin, the Bureau Gruen in Cologne comes with a concurring event in September: the ÖkoRausch, a "Fair for design with consicousness". The event wants ...
Eco Luxurious Fashion by Fin
Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion | No Comments »Eco luxurious lifestyle? Check out the sleek and original presentation of the Norwegian luxurious eco fashion brand Fin (yeah, a bit confusing name in this case). Don't forget to press 'next'... Fin shows eco fashion from it's best LOHAS side. Their ...