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A little over year after making a big deal of taking their PINK Body skincare line in an organic direction, Victoria’s Secret has quietly discontinued the line. According to the new products on their site, and at least one source who works there, the new products now just say “natural” when discussing the ingredients. “This line was recently discontinued and a *new* line was introduced to replace it, no longer using the more strictly regulated label of “organic” but instead touting itself as “natural”, which has no regulation at all,” wrote a commenter. “Anything in the world can use natural in the label,...
For artist Lincoln Mayne shapes don’t get any better than geometric ones, a theory he recently put to the test with his debut t-shirt collection Geometry Lessons. His designs center around three ubiquitous shapes—the circle, the square and the diamond—but his treatment of them looks more urban-tribal than grade school. Mayne’s unconventional approach comes thanks to the Australian’s fine art background, which he quite literally applies by translating his watercolor paintings and sculpture onto fashion. Designing under the moniker LM.affair, his wearable-art tees’ unusual compositions and color choices stem from a rich well influences Inspired by a mix of objects spanning antique scarves...
Made from the remnants of Australian cricket balls, Bowling Arm leather bracelets are a colorful wrist accessory that nicely utilize an otherwise purposeless scrap of material. Each one-of-a-kind piece builds character with wear. The brainchild of Australian industrial designer and fine artist Simone LeAmon, as director of studio O.S. Initiative, LeAmon focuses on creating engaging and sustainably-minded products whose process has a story to tell. The bracelets come in red, yellow or white and sell online for AUD $44. HIT FROM: COOLHUNTING.COM...
Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could turn our humongous e-waste problem into a source of something we all need – like shoes? Well, vegan footwear company extraordinaire, Olsenhaus, is doing just that with their Fall Winter 2010 collection. Their always fashion forward heels, peep toes, and booties are all going to be made with a new polyester microfiber made from discarded television screens! Yes, really! HIT FROM: Inhabitat.com...
Is your favorite t-shirt in such distress that it garners more attention for its rips and holes than its clever declaration against CO2 emissions? There is no reason to despair over your cherished threads, because your loss is your computer’s gain. The people at Hello Rewind have come up with a great way to upcycle your old tees into new duds for your laptop. But best of all, by doing so, not only will you be getting a nifty new outfit for your computer, but you’ll be helping to support the fight against sex-trafficking. HIT FROM: Inhabitat.com...
It’s the best when your favorite brands come out with ethical products. Products you can wear, look good in, that at the same time represent your views on some pretty big issues in life. Right now of course I am talking about the environment. It’s hard to always meet a product that does both. And it is not a crime to not always be able to represent your ethical viewpoints through your fashion. But here at GreenJAR we try to encourage you to keep these things at the the front of your decision making when shopping. These are a couple...
Idly browsing among some of the internet’s best shopping sites the other day in search for a pair of winter boots, I came across a very cool addition to SHOP BOP’S website. SHOP BOP has created an “EARTH FRIENDLY PAGE” just so that you can make shopping choices based on whats green and whats not. They give you the option to make environmentally conscious decisions while purchasing your favorite products. This is what it is all about! I’ll say it again and again, you don’t have to give up your style to start caring about the environment and making conscious...
There are multiple layers of beauty behind the organization Hands Up Not Handouts (HUNHO) whose mission is to help empower the world’s impoverished women. How you ask? By helping them hone in on their knack for handcrafting goods from native materials which in turn, generates income that they, their families and communities can sustain themselves off of. This micro-enterprise model isn’t by any means new, HUNHO is yet just another successful example that’s making a dent for the better. What won’t make a huge dent in your wallet are the oh-so-cool and hip handcrafted accessories being made from HUNHO’s Palestine and Rwanda-based...
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has just launched a set of sustainable t-shirts designed by the likes of haute couturiers John Rocha, Zandra Rhodes, Luella Bartley, and Christian Lacroix — to name a few — for summer 2010. The t-shirts are made with fairly traded Continental cotton from Turkey are are designed around the theme, “childhood, lost innocence and hope” in light of EJF’s newly release report, “Slave Nation” on their campaign to end child labor in Uzbekistan. It’s looking like last season’s organic tees are this season’s fairly trade tees. EJF’s new report, “Slave Nation” exposes how the Government of Uzbekistan continues...
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