Eco Fashion World

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WHAT: A selection of the best eco-designers from around the world coming together to showcase their latest collections of environmentally friendly, trend-setting fashion. With collaboration from designers, buyers, models, agencies, fashion directors, trend setters and media, the message is global.

Two major eco-textile and ethical fashion events will join forces in London this October when the Ethical Fashion Source Expo runs alongside the fourth international RITE Group conference on sustainable textiles. Leading speakers include Baroness Lola Young OBE, Forum for the Future, Marks & Spencer, DuPont, Huntsman, surf brand Finisterre, plus five breakout sessions on textile recycling, GOTS and dyeing, textile fibres and GM, ethical sourcing, Sustainable Clothing Action Plan.

EMESHA

4 – 5 September
The Art of Fashion
Electric Picnic Music and Arts Festival - The Global Green Area

The Global Green is the place at the Electric Picnic to slow down, recharge and reflect on a better world. Nestled between Green Crafts and Body and Soul, this year the Global Green explores the themes of togetherness and community using the picnic theme ‘Together we are Electric’ as the inspiration.

Re-dress has been asked to co-ordinate a sustainable fashion project in the global green area and have teamed up with art collective FOR THE LOVE OF (FTLO) to inspire festival goers with a live FASHION / ART design challenge.

The live design project will run on the Saturday with illustrators/artists chosen by FTLO designing fabric themed around "together we are electric." Designers chosen by Re-dress will be asked to create pieces inspired by this theme and in collaboration with the illustrators/artists. It will finish with a styled shoot on Saturday evening.

Last month we enthusiastically announced our collaboration with Eco Fashion Week Vancouver and promised to keep you up to date with all the latest news surrounding the festivities which will take place September 27 – 30.

BODY POLITIC

At the helm of the sustainable shopping in Vancouver, body politic boutique will bring together the elite of the eco movement the night of August 25th from 6:30-9:00 at 208 E 12 Ave. to celebrate the inaugural Eco Fashion Week in Canada, re-launch of Granville Online (heir to Granville Magazine), and the new Aveda Institute of Vancouver. Ten percent of proceeds for the night of shopping will help support the David Suzuki Foundation .

 STEWART & BROWN

9 – 11 August
Designers & Agents
10a.m. – 6p.m.

New Mart
127 E Ninth Street
(212) 302-9575
Holiday ’10/Resort ‘11

Designers & Agents is an independent, international alternative marketplace for over 1000 collections and thousands of retailers who define the cutting edge in fashion and lifestyle.

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SUMMER ECO FASHION EVENTS

24 - 25 July

Festival of World Cultures
Calling all Fashion Designers/Fashion Activists/Textile Artists
Here's your chance to exhibit with Re-dress at the Festival of World Cultures, Dun Laoghaire in Ireland. Re-dress will be creating a DIY fashion/art area at the festival this 24th and 25th of July and are asking designers and artists who use recycled / upcycled textiles as their medium to submit a piece to be exhibited on the Harbour Plaza over the two day festival.

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Our team at Eco Fashion World strongly believes in building relationships, forming partnerships, and creating alliances with like-minded people, organizations and businesses in an effort to educate and inform on sustainable fashion. Our family here at EFW is ever growing and changing, molding to the growth and progress of the eco fashion industry while pushing boundaries and doing what we love. Recently, we forged a partnership with Eco Fashion Week Vancouver as they are in full swing preparation mode for fashion week taking place September 28 – 30.

Kelly Hoppen is a world renowned interior designer who has been translating inspiration from her travels, particularly her visits to the Far East, into the transformation of interior spaces for over twenty years. Her design philosophy exudes clean elegance represented by a perfectly balanced mixture of natural tones and textures.

Source4Style, a B2B online marketplace that will allow designers in both the fashion and interior design industries to search, compare and purchase sustainable materials from a carefully selected network of suppliers, will preview at the Home Textiles Fabric Sourcing Expo on July 14, 2010 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.

Source4Style, founded in 2009 by model and environmental activist Summer Rayne Oakes, fair trade entrepreneur Benita Singh, and serial entrepreneur Adam Schwartz, recently launched in private beta to a select number of users. The site hosts 25 suppliers from all over the world and over 1000 materials divided into categories such as organic cottons, hand-woven silks, hemp, tree-based/wood, and reclaimed textiles.

ASCENSION

Independence Day in the United States was celebrated this past weekend. A day when “red, white and blue” is honored and we reflect on the freedom in America as well as the sacrifices made by many in order for us to have this freedom.

Let us further contemplate our love for America by bouncing around to many of the eco fashion events hosted this summer, remembering that in order to keep our world beautiful, we have to take care of it.

With not one crocheted toilet paper roll in sight, Victoria celebrated its premiere of the cult hit documentary “Handmade Nation” with Iconocraft, an unconventional craft fair featuring local designers and artists.

MAGDALENA SCHAFFIN

  As Fashion Week Berlin approaches 7 - 10 July, there is no doubt that the era of sustainability has infiltrated every corner of the world. Green is the future of fashion and here are some events surrounding Fashion Week Berlin that you may want to clear your calendar for:

Overflowing with elite eco brands from Vancouver and across Canada, the esteemed 2010 Leo Awards gift bags were planet friendly beyond compare.

Anna Herman grew up intrigued by the details of how things worked. This crossed over into her interest in fashion from a very early age. The elements and processes of clothing design were something she was so fascinated with that after attaining a degree in Fine Arts and operating her own store in Missoula, Montana (a hemp mecca), she contemplated the many life damaging aspects of the garment industry and immersed herself in the world of vintage shopping. She made new things, remade old things, and found herself still wanting to do something more for the world of eco fashion.

What if we told you about a special rock bottom sale of the best French ethical fashion brands? What if we told you that this sale will happen over the weekend and be punctuated by two lively Brazilian music concerts every night? And that on top of all that the benefits go to a French-Brazilian association that works on providing education for children in the Favelas?

Amsterdam International Fashion Week (AIFW) and the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality have joined forces for The Green Fashion Competition: A design contest in token of the International Year of Biodiversity. The competition launch will take place on the 16th of July 2010 during the 13th edition of AIFW. In honour of the competition, Kentroy Yearwood (art director at INTOXICA) will present his new sustainable collection RANGAKU in a specially designed pavilion in the Westerpark (Amsterdam).

London is the place to be with three ethical fashion events this week!

FASH/OFF - June 24 You are warmly invited to FASH/OFF: The June Ethical Fashion Forum Social held in collaboration with MA ‘Fashion and the Environment’ students from the London College of Fashion. With exhibits, hands on activities and networking, come along for this fun, free EFF social on Thursday 24th June from 6.30pm. Get a group of friends together and enter into our FASH/OFF competition. Your challenge will be to create a beautiful garment/outfit from a small collection of unwanted ‘waste’ garments, in just one hour! All equipment will be provided – just bring your team and get creative! Throughout the evening you will be able to view the work of the MA students and take part in practical workshops and discussions. A specialist fashion quiz will conclude the activities focusing on the issues explored throughout the evening. Location: UAL Hub, 272, High Holborn, WC1V 7EY

More and more ethical brands discover the advantages of selling online. If you want to treat yourself, check out the new webshops of some of these favourites!

Do you want to learn more about what is going on in terms of sustainability in Canada? Then EPIC is the place to go! EPIC is the Sustainable Expo in Vancouver, Canada and we were there to spot the latest trends for you. Whether people came for the fashion, the tasty treats, or to sit in the latest electric car, it was sure the place to be for people wanting to learn more about how they can do their part to live a more sustainable lifestyle.