Eco-Fashion is an idea that has always been around, but really begun to take steam in February of 2005 at New York’s Fashion Week when Earth Pledge teamed up with 28 designers to create a special runway event called FutureFashion. This past Spring Oscar de la Renta, Halston and Elisa Jimenez showed off their echo-fashion designs at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) 2006 Conference. The response was overwhelming and the designs were again shown over the summer at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, where Stephen Burrows and Heatherette also added dresses to the collection of designs to be shown. With such great designers coming to understand that fashion can be earth friendly and design friendly, it is sure to increase in popularity among the world of fashion designers.
Eco-Fashion is clothing that takes into account the environment, the health of consumers and the working conditions of people in the fashion industry. You may not have know the exact term for this industry, but we have all heard and been up in arms over, the stories of big name celebrities having their clothing made in sweat shops only to sell them for top dollar. Taking into account the working conditions of the people who actually put the products together to get you what you purchase at the store is a part of Eco-Fashion.
The other real difference, beyond who it is made by and their working conditions, is what it is made of and how it plays a role in the health and well being of our environment. Eco-Fashion clothing is made of organic raw materials without pesticides or any chemicals that would harm the earth or the person wearing it. It can also include recycled materials such as plastics, rubber, even your own old clothing.
Eco-Fashion isn’t only about clothing either, it includes anything that can be stitched and sewn…including iPod cases.
Have you ever thought about how your clothing was birthed? What have you bought lately that is considered Eco-Fashion?
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Eco Fashion? Please, do you Ladies, really believe in this concept? Fashion is about beauty, not Green Peace, or is it now?
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Olga Moore |
March 16, 2007 7:40 PM
Posted on March 16, 2007 19:40
Hi Olga, thanks for posting a comment.
Actually I do believe in this. I see nothing more beautiful than taking things we already have that would be heading to the dump and breathing new life into them for a different use. Why continue to pollute their earth, when we can recycle?
Global Warming, now there is something that is ugly. ;)
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Shannon |
March 16, 2007 8:00 PM
Posted on March 16, 2007 20:00