Eco Fashion World

If you’re reading these lines, you’ve probably already all but banished plastic bags from your life. So it just drives you up the wall when you see people in line at the checkout carelessly double bagging their purchases, just because they can… However, starting to rant and preach at them like a crazy person might not get the results you hope for. What could get you results however, is following the wise advise that Rebecca Hoskins has gathered in her brand new book Ban the Plastic Bag: A community action plan. Starting with the case study of Modbury in Devon, which became Britain’s first plastic bag-free town in Britain in May 2007, the book explains how any other village town or city could get such policies implemented. It even comes with its very own complimentary organic cotton bag to add to your collection.

December 2-3, Copenhagen, Denmark

Are you an eco fashion professional and lost in the challenges you face? A trip to Denmark might be the way to go in that case! On December 2-3, Organic Exchange and Made-By will host a seminar on Sustainable Fashion in Copenhagen!

And for a little shot of sunshine here are some of the hot happenings that took place in the South hemisphere this month.

Peter Ingwersen, NOIR’s founder and owner, is visiting IED fashion school this coming Friday to meet students and professionals and discuss on fashion, luxury and sustainability. This will be the second session of a number of exciting events on fashion design and sustainability held at IED Madrid along the current academic year. SANS, Misión Misericordia and Veja are also part of these sessions.

It was a night of firsts. The first time Eco Fashion World was sponsoring a sustainable fashion show, and the first time that such a show took place during Vancouver Fashion Week. The west coast Canadian city has a reputation for being ahead of trends in terms of environmental awareness but had yet to hold a truly green fashion event, it’s now a done deal and the press and audience response was proof that this was a much needed event!

We know green is the new black but what’s beyond that? Around 1.000 fashion students, teaching staff and designers will discuss this at Beyond Green on November 12 in Amsterdam. The international symposium is organized by AM-FI - Amsterdam Fashion Institute, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and the Stichting Modebewust foundation. A variety of guests, including trendforecaster Li Edelkoort and Eco-chic author Sandy Black, will be giving their personal perspectives on the theme.

On Saturday November 8th Toronto showed its green glamour in a day and night of sustainable fashion events organized by Fashion Takes Action.

The fun began at 10am with the Sustainable Style Show: this event raised consumer awareness around fairly traded, locally and ethically produced products, as well as those made from sustainable materials. With the rise of environmental consciousness, consumers are making an increased effort to make smarter shopping choices, yet “greenwashing” has created confusion around what is truly sustainable. Here, the labels were pre selected according to a set of rigorous criteria and choices were plentiful. We particularly enjoyed Montreal label Deux FM, Nixxi and Green Girls.