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.

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.

Eco entrepreneur Sarah Van Aken has launched www.savafashion.com to bring the same socially conscious retail choices from her successful flagship boutique SA VA, located at 1700 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, to the rest of the nation. As in the SA VA store, the interactive web site allows women to shop for fashion-forward garments by selecting seven different sustainable categories including: Local Made; Fair Trade; Hand Made; Organic; All Natural; Made in the U.S.A.; and Recycled.

TransFair USA, a not-for-profit organization, is one of twenty members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. Transfair USA thoroughly examines transactions between US companies offering Fair Trade Certified™ products and the international suppliers from whom they source, in order to guarantee that the farmers and farm workers behind Fair Trade Certified goods were paid a fair, above-market price. In addition, annual inspections conducted by FLO ensure that strict socioeconomic development criteria are being met using increased Fair Trade revenues.