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Titania Inglis Channels Marilyn Monroe With Veggie-, Rust-Dyed Playsuits

Brit Liggett — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:00:23 +0000

Warm weather is soclose we can almost taste it! If you’ve been searching for the perfect Marilyn Monroe-sque ensemble (circa Some Like It Hot) for the imminent heat wave, we’d like to introduce you to Titania Inglis’s foxy little eco-jumper. Its sweetheart lines and organic fabrics, tailored to a T in New York City’s Garment District, have us longing for the sun. But it’s hardly the only piece in Inglis’s arsenal that’s frolic-friendly.

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Eco-Footwear Goes Mainstream With Launch of Naya Shoes

Jasmin Malik Chua — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:00:58 +0000

Call a bandwagon a bandwagon if you must, but Naya isn’t just a fresh-off-the-presses line of eco-friendly wedges, heels, and flats. It’s also a ringing endorsement that the sustainability movement is doing something right. The first company-owned brand launched by the billion-dollar Brown Shoe Co. in 10 years, Naya joins established sibling brands like Dr. Scholls, Buster Brown, and Via Spiga, as well as the Famous Footwear chain of stores.

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Studio JUX: Eco-Fashion That Takes Care of Both People and Planet

Jennifer Smith — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:00:47 +0000

Jitske Lundgren, founder of Studio JUX, really know his clothes. The Dutch designer’s men’s and women’s collections, which comprise organic and all-natural fabrics, feature utterly wearable items that focus on classic silhouettes with an unexpected twist. But Lundgren also knows the people whose hands have toiled over every stitch. With fair-trade principles at the forefront of JUX’s brand identity, each piece is finely crafted by Nepali tailors under fair labor conditions, monitored by the Fair Wear Foundation.

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Adie & George: Local, Eco-Knitwear by Mr. Larkin, Permacouture Institute

Jasmin Malik Chua — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:00:41 +0000

Adie and George never had the pleasure of each other’s acquaintance but that hasn’t stopped their granddaughters from playing retroactive matchmaker. Casey Larkin (Mr. Larkin) and Sasha Duerr (Permacouture Institute) bandied around several names for their collaborative knitwear collection before landing on the monikers of their biological forebears—perfectly apropos when you consider the heritage nature of the 100 percent West Coast line.

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Modern Diamonds: Reclaimed Wood Gems by Something’s Hiding in Here

Rebecca Paul — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:00:14 +0000

Philadelphia-based design duo Something’s Hiding in Here uses reclaimed wood and other eco-friendly materials to make funky accessories that are fun to wear and reasonably priced. These chunky hand-shaped wood gems are just the right combination of edgy and homegrown, not to mention we love wearing anything that features the subtle and organic patterns wood grain naturally provides.

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Inspired by Nature, Dandi Maestre’s Jewelry Embraces Its Wild Beauty

Jasmin Malik Chua — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:00:09 +0000

If there’s one thing that designer Dandi Maestre knows, it’s that you can’t tame nature, so why bother? The former graphic designer plunders Gaia’s backyard for treasures-in-the-rough and crafts them into oversized sartorial statements: shed antlers become an avant-garde necklace, reclaimed driftwood transforms into a chunky cuff, and dyed exotic nuts are carved into psychedelic rings.

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Christopher Raeburn’s Upcycled Military Garments Are Ready For Anything

Antonia Halse — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:16:56 +0000

Christopher Raeburn was all over London Fashion Week’s’s HQ at Somerset House this year, with not one but three displays throughout the exhibition. Having admired Raeburn’s work since we first spotted his lightly crafted aesthetic back in 2008—remember his recycled hot-air-balloon garments for Worn Again?—Ecouterre was on the scene for an up-close-and-personal look at his Autumn/Winter 2010 collection, which focused on utilitarian traits such as functionality and practical layering.

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Olsenhaus Makes Eco-Chic Vegan Shoes From Recycled TVs (No Foolin’!)

Jasmin Malik Chua — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:00:56 +0000

With the transition to all-digital broadcasts, the planet isn’t exactly hurting for obsolete TV sets. Which is why vegan footwear purveyor Olsenhaus is making a switch of its own—by cladding Its entire Fall/Winter 2010 collection of pumps, wedges, stiletto booties, and knee-highs in an innovative polyester microfiber made from trashed television screens.

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Suno’s Upcycled Clothing Celebrates Kenyan Artistry, Social Responsibility

Jasmin Malik Chua — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:44 +0000

Subtle. Understated. Restrained. These are not words in Suno’s vernacular. The New York-based label, founded in 2008 by designer/screenwriter Max Osterweis, is a riot of color and print. The daringly original pieces lend themselves well to the storied provenance of their fabrics: Vintage “kangas,” or large, sarong-like pieces of printed cotton traditionally worn by coastal East African women, almost all of which bear Swahili aphorisms about social or sexual politics.

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Bamboo Spectacle Frames Inspired by Chinese Ming Dynasty Furniture

Jasmin Malik Chua — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:00:04 +0000

Like the Ming Dynasty furniture that inspired them, these eyeglass frames by Taiwan’s Yii Collection echo the clean, elegant lines of carved rosewood designs from that era. And true to the Ming philosophy of order and minimalism, the lightweight specs are a perfect marriage of aesthetics, craftsmanship, and function. How else would you expect design geeks to frame their peepers?

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[Via Designboom]