Ecouterre

Beyoncé may be one of the top-selling performers of our time but her latest move isn’t likely to win her points with animal lovers. According to a blog post by Perfectly Made Kicks on Monday, the “Crazy in Love” singer “summoned” the footwear design house to customize a pair of Isabel Marant sneakers—dubbed the “King Bey”—using an array of exotic animal skins, including calf hair, anaconda, stingray, crocodile, and ostrich. Inspired by Beyoncé’s “sweet and fierce persona,” PMK plied the multi-textured wedges with white-on-white tones, gold-stitched details, and a “hybrid of land and sea skins” it provocatively refers to as the “Eden treatment.”

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Do you struggle with deciding what to donate when cleaning out your closet? Need a little extra push to let go of that old dress or sweater that you only wore once? Don’t worry, there is an app for that. DDB has developed “You’ll Never Wear That Again” for the nonprofit Stockholm StadMission, a Facebook application that scans your photos to identify what is out of fashion and ready to be recycled. Users can share their collages of tagged clothing, invite friends to gift their threads, and locate charity shops that accept donations nearby.

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Looks like Mila Kunis isn’t ready to exit the Emerald City just yet. The Oz the Great and Powerful star has landed a new deal as global brand ambassador for Gemfields, a London-based colored-gemstone producer that specializes in ethically mined emeralds. The partnership is a stroke of marketing kismet. The Ukrainian-born American actress is due to appear alongside James Franco and Michelle Williams as the young witch Theodora, rumored to be a pre-Dorothy—and pre-green skin—version of the Wicked Witch of the West.

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Up until last year, treatment for chronic acid reflux involved acid-suppressing drugs, but a new device fitted around a patient’s esophagus is showing promising results to provide relief. A recent study through the Mayo Clinic shows that nearly all patients outfitted with the esophagus ring had lesser symptoms and many were able to stop taking their medicines. The device is made up of tiny magnetic titanium beads and works as replacement valve to stop acid leaking from the stomach up to the esophagus.

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Livia Firth had a low-key Oscars night. The Eco Age creative director, who co-founded the “Green Carpet Challenge” in 2010 to raise sustainable fashion’s profile on the Hollywood red carpet, skipped the bright lights of The Dolby Theatre for the 21st Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party in West Hollywood Park. Mrs. Colin Firth, whose husband was away shooting a movie, appeared in a Grace Kelly-inspired dress by New Zealand-born designer Emilia Wickstead, who used fully traceable Global Organic Textile Standard-certified silk organza.

+ Eco Age

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First Lady Michelle Obama made a surprise cameo at the 2013 Oscars when she appeared via satellite on Sunday to announce the nominees for Best Picture. (Argo won, for those keeping score at home.) FLOTUS wore a custom, Art Deco-inspired silver sheath by Indian-born American designer Naeem Khan, whose designs are chiefly manufactured in the United States. If the dress looks familiar, your eyes don’t deceive you. Obama wore the same outfit to the governors’ dinner at the White House earlier that evening—all the better to multitask, of course.

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Reigning Best Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway paired her inordinately…um…“perky” Prada dress at the 2013 Oscars on Sunday with custom cruelty-free stilettos from Giuseppe Zanotti. Requesting faux-leather kicks from leading footwear designers is becoming an M.O. for the newly vegan actress. Hathaway made her rounds at earlier awards in “veganized” Tom Ford gladiator boots and Jimmy Choo peep-toe heels.

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“Bond Girl” Naomie Harris arrived at the 2013 Oscars on Sunday in a daringly slit gown by Ghanian designer Michael Badger, winner of this year’s “Red Carpet Green Dress challenge”. Brought to life by Vivienne Westwood’s atelier and the Royal School of Needlework (the same folks who created the Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding gown, by the by), the Cradle-to-Cradle-certified number featured Global Organic Textile Standard-certified silk crepe de chine, recycled zippers, vintage glass beads, hand-embroidered chocolate-candy-wrapper embellishments, and a pale mustard hue derived from a natural—and supposedly therapeutic—dye bath of goldenrod and chamomile seeds.

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