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 ...
Flashmobs in Hotpants to Fight Poverty
Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 4 Comments »It's activism. It's marketing. It's sexy. It's fighting poverty. Pants to Poverty organizes Hotpants Flashmobs where young people gather on the streets in organic, fair trade underpants to fight poverty. Genious actions, they knwo what they are doing. And the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Canadian Athletes to Olympics with Eco-Friendly Uniforms
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion | 2 Comments »The Canadian athletes going to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will wear sport clothing made from organic cotton, bamboo and Cocona, made from Coconut waste. Not that all bamboo is always so environmental friendly (it consumes a lot of water and ...
Pamoyo: New Green Fashion Styled With Heart
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Design, Fashion, Products | No Comments »We launched the new Pamoyo site and Pamoyo collection during a short trip to The Netherlands, making it a truly nomadic clothing label. And it took a few days before I noticed I did not even announced it here on ...
"Change the World with Style": Presentation by the Grass Routes Foundation
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog | No Comments »Dear friends and all interested, We invite you to a special evening on Thursday the 15th of May in the SelfHub in Berlin, where we will present you the projects and ideas of Grass Routes in a creative way, to ...
Sexy Swimwear from Recycled Plastic Bottles by Aaron Chang
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Recycling | 1 Comment »Off course most natural and ecological is to swim naked. But for all those occasions where that's not an option (not everyone owns a private swimming pool or beach) it's cool to have some eco options. New on the green ...
German Social Fashion Label Armed Angels launches New Collection & website
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 3 Comments »Social fashion - for the label Armed Angels this means more than organic cotton and fair trade production. The label also involves their online community in deciding over the models, print designs, and to which charity the 3,33 Euro per ...