Bodkin Fall 2011, New York Fashion Week. Photo: Emma Grady
Next up in our on-site coverage of the best of green ready-to-wear at
New York Fashion Week is mod eco-conscious label
Bodkin.
For Fall 2011, lead designer Eviana Hartman offers up well made--and slightly unusual--classics, from a jersey wool dress with spikes to a boiled wool jacket. The presentation was held at New York's hip hotel,
The Standard--where we also saw
Study NY by Tara St. James' presentation--on Tuesday.
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Photo: Ute Decker
Twenty jewellers signed up this week (on Valentine's Day) to sell the world's first
Fairtrade and Fairmined certified gold. A new partnership between the Fairtrade Foundation and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) will provide certified gold.
A Bolivian mining co-operative,
Cotapata, is the first to be certified but more mines in Peru and Colombia are due to receive certification within the next couple of months.
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Photos: Paula Alvarado.
The exquisite sustainable fashion brand
Cubreme (
featured in TreeHugger a few years ago) has opened a new showroom to host its flawless organic wool coats and accessories, and its new line of
agroecologic cotton home-wear in Buenos Aires.
Decorated with rescued vintage furniture and with a warm home feel, it's a must stop for every treehugger traveling to the city. Take a look inside....
Be a real sweetheart tomorrow when
shopping for February 14 by supporting world artisans and hand-crafted items by small business entrepreneurs. The jewelry item above, for instance, shows the meaning of love, literally. This
handmade necklace is created from recycled vintage dictionaries by Monique Sherman, redefining the word, as it's phonetically pronounced: luv. ...
Photo Credit: Marielle van Leewen for Oat Shoes
We've written a bit here on Treehugger about the quest for a more sustainable sneaker. We've covered
sneakers made from recycled materials and talked about
how to recycle your sneakers when they're worn out. But now, thanks to
OAT Shoes, you can marry your love of sustainable clothing with your obsession for compost.
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Organic by John Patrick fall 2011 collection, New York Fashion Week. Photo: Emma Grady
New York Fashion Week has kicked off once again with an influx of the well-heeled crowd, and TreeHugger is covering live onsite, to deliver you the inside scoop on the best of
green fashion for Fall 2011.
First up,
Organic by John Patrick. Fine wool sweaters, hand knit by Amanda Henderson and sourced from
Hudson Valley Sheep and Wool Company, to printed textiles, sourced from Canton, MA and cut and sewn in the heart of the
New York City Garment District define his Fall 2011 collection, which masters the art of building garments locally, from the source to final product.
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Images credit: Fur Council of Canada
Four years ago we congratulated the Fur Council of Canada for setting a new standard in greenwashing with their
Fur is Green campaign. They are in the news again, with an upgraded website and downloadable brochures, all attesting that fur is green.
It is a slick campaign; they take all of the green movement's buzzwords and throw them back in our faces. But is it true?...
Photo: Proof
Sustainable eye wear company,
Proof, is on a mission to make sunglasses that have the "power to make a change in the world," so states their press release. The unisex shades are made with sustainably sourced wood, including ebony, zebrawood, and bamboo--they have foldable sunnies, too. Take a look:
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Photo credit: Adidas
RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, last month signed a $207,000 USD research contract with the German-based sports behemoth, Adidas, to identify the sustainable manufacturing capabilities and requirements of Adidas' suppliers in Indonesia.
The project known as The Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative (SMI) will, according to the university, "bring together RMIT researchers in sports technology, sustainable manufacturing, sustainable development, sustainable energy, supply chain management and textiles.">...
All photos: Timberland
Launched to the trade last year, Timberland's new Earthkeeper footwear is now available to mere mortals as well. Complete with Bionic canvas, which is a modern reworking of that durable material, which was once de rigueur for sails and tents. In this instant, Timberland's canvas uses Bionic yarn, from a company of the same name. The yarn has an outer of organic cotton (50%), wrapped around a core of 38% recycled PET core and 12% High Tensile polyester (non-recycled), all of which is said to "provide increased strength, abrasion resistance and decreased dry time." Indeed it's claimed that Bionic canvas is 30% stronger than regular canvas....
Photo: courtesy Parsons The New School for Design
Tomorrow,
Parsons The New School for Design will unveil its most recent exhibition:
Zero Waste Denim, in collaboration with
Loomstate. On view through February 23, 2011 at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, the multimedia exhibition gives visitors a behind the scenes look at zero wast fashion and sustainable design--click through for a sneak peak!...
Students wear We Add Up action t-shirts. Photo: We Add Up
We Add Up, a global campaign that uses organic cotton t-shirts with action messages to raise awareness on climate change, is launching a spring semester school contest, which will enlist the talent of students across the country to design their next t-shirt. The contest ends May 31, 2011. Read on for details. ...
Photo: H&M;
H&M; has had its fair share of controversy--from organic cotton fraud to destroying clothing--but the fast fashion heavyweight recognizes that they must
take responsibility for how their actions affect people and the environment if they want continued growth
and profitability.
Enter H&M;'s Spring 2011 collection, which hits stores April 14, 2011. Called the Conscious Collection, it employs, what H&M; calls 'conscious' materials, organic cotton, organic linen, recycled polyester, and Tencel. And yes, there's something for you gentleman, too.
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The Care About You Package includes luscious lib balm by Good Fight Herb Co. Photo: Paperfinger
With the commercialized holiday that is
Valentine's Day fast approaching, we're all ears when it comes to giving a handcrafted gift with local flavor. Enter the Care About You Package, a collaboration between three friends, who all happen to own small, local businesses:
Blades Natural Beauty,
Good Fight Herb Co., and
Paperfinger. Take a peek inside: ...
Photo Credit: The North Face
The Venture Jacket was first released by The North Face in 2002 as a no-frills functional rainshell. It has undergone a revamp for the northern Spring/ Summer of 2011, with the inclusion of castor oil into its HyVent DT EC waterproof/breathable membrane. And for the trouble TNF went to, in bringing this material innovation to market, they are set to pick up the 2011
Backpacker Magazine Editors' Choice Green Award.
Each Venture Jacket apparently contains about 28 g/m2 of a waterproof breathable coating. For the coming season 50% of which will be castor oil based. A media release form the The North Face suggests that "this will eliminate more than 50,000 lbs of petroleum-based materials in 2011."...
Tin-can earrings from the Czech Republic are among the recycled goods for sale on Yiuco. Photo: REforma.
The website
Etsy has become wildly popular by connecting consumers with small-scale craftspeople making original jewelry, artwork, home-décor items, and other goods -- many of which are more environmentally friendly than their mass-produced counterparts. Now a new site based in
Greece has put the eco-angle front and center, creating an online marketplace solely for recycled handicrafts....
The Uniform Project's little black dress. Photo: The Uniform Project
The Uniform Project (U.P.) continues to reimagine the classic little black dress. First it was a
convertable romper dress, then came the
reversible stretch dress, and now, the LBD has been severed into two parts: a zip down high-waisted skirt and a shell top that doubles as
a two-piece suit, which is, as the following photos show, suitable for a variety of occasions.
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Photo: Thinkstock
In Chilliwack, Canada food laws prohibit the sale of
raw milk but a raw-milk dairy has found a way to skirt the issue and stay in businesses: they've rebranded their milk and dairy products to cosmetics,
The Globe and Mail reports (via
No More Dirty Looks):
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