Eco Fashion World

With a résumé that includes model, television host, best-selling author, environmental activist, and social entrepreneur, Summer Rayne Oakes, the woman dubbed the first eco model, took a ‘time out’ amidst her demanding calendar of events to sit down and tell me about her present day ventures, aspirations for the future and some of the fashion items she is currently coveting.

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.

Can we call REUSE Jeans the fountain of youth for denim? Using 80% recycled denim to create their products; REUSE Jeans is uniting the importance of the ecosystem with the importance of finding a great pair of jeans.

New York Fashion Week’s The GreenShows are less than a month away, and sustainable fashion designers on all shores are working diligently to wrap up their latest collections for Spring/Summer 2011 previews. Despite our belief that the chicest eco fashion is seasonally versatile and boldly trend defying, it is exciting to keep a watch out for bright young stars on the schedule for fashion week’s September line up. Auralís Herrero-Lugo is a designer who has the potential of becoming a force on the ethical fashion scene with her classic, silhouetted jumpers and slinky summer dresses. Her collections to date have celebrated urban versatility and cool sustainable style, but behind the scenes she has been stirring up collaborative ways to help preserve and promote the craft traditions of local Puerto Rican artisans as well as Brooklyn-based eco-friendly textile printing.

Jamie Lim was going about her life, studied economics in undergrad, and was working full time at an investment management company when she stopped and thought to herself, “I don’t think anything about the way we currently live makes sense any more.” She went over this topic in her mind and mulled over aspects of the food we eat, the cars we drive, the amount of things that are thrown away and the daunting statistics related to poverty and hunger.

Misericordia: Manos, Espíritu y Corazón, was created by Aurelyen and Mathieu Reumaux in 2002. In Spanish, Misericordia means “heart of mercy” and Manos, Espíritu y Corazón translates to “hands, spirit and heart” – representative of the ingredients that make this company extraordinary.