Eco Fashion World

KAYU SUNGLASSES

Jamie Lim’s Kayu eyewear made from bamboo has been selected from over 500 entries as one of six finalists in The Earth Awards 2010.

Judged by some of the world’s leading creative thinkers, The Earth Awards identifies viable ideas in areas of fashion, architecture and consumer products which represent a real contribution for an improvement of life, and marries those ideas with investors. The objective of Earth Awards is to give the winning designer the means to enter the worldwide consumer marketplace.

Located on Manchester’s King Street in Britain’s northern quarter, Kuyichi, the Dutch fashion denim brand famed for its sustainable sartorial streetwear hopes to widen its appeal and convert shoppers to its environmental ethos.

SAMANTHA PLEET

After a summer of white-hot eco fashion news, September ushers in a golden line up of fashion week events and designer showcases. The official kick off to these festivities is definitely The GreenShows Eco Fashion Week, on September 12-14 at the Metropolitan Pavilion, in NYC's Chelsea Arts District. As the premiere green offshoot of NYFW's Lincoln Center's events, The GreenShows will feature a diverse line up of eco fashion designer collections to celebrate.

If you want to opt for street chic influenced by a noticeable dose of modern architecture, check out Bodkin's sleek collections. Good, smart design with comfort in mind form simple silhouettes that you can take from day into night.

Bodkin pushes the envelope a little further each season with new fabrications in the ethical arena such as post-consumer recycled polyester, recycled wool, fine organic cottons, salvaged textiles, and hand loomed weaves from collectives in India.

Fashion is ever-evolving as are we (we hope) and with each passing trend there is a pile of clothes left in our closet or our bottom drawer to dispose of. What if you could conveniently place that pile of clothes in a nearby recycling bin? Now, in at least one city, you can

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.