Eco Fashion World

If you’ve been following Eco Fashion World, you already know how sexy leather accessories can be made from fish skin leather. This month, two socially innovative brands are offering colorful new models to fuel our handbag lust. However, if you’re fishing for a new eco bag, you can also get inspired by (and vote for) the “Best Green Bag” selection at the Independent Handbag awards in NYC.

Fair Trade fashion and gift shop BoBelle, now carries perfect little eel skin purses in 11 tempting colors. The eel leather used is a by-product of the food industry in Korea where eels are used for their meat and the skin is discarded. Each one is hand made and hand dyed. As an additional incentive, they are having a spring clearance sale of 30% on all the stock in store!

From Uruguay to the world, Ignes Handbags (incidentally, the winner of the ‘Most Socially Responsible brand’ at the Handbag Designer Awards in NYC in 2007 and in the running again this year) is introducing salmon skin leather handbags this season. With a similar look to snakeskin yet much more eco-friendly, this leather effect is quite rare and comes in a range of beautiful colors to highlight any outfit, including red scarlet, nude salmon and green emerald and comes in a range of clutches and larger bags. You can get your bag ready designed through the www.ignesbags.com website, but you if you’re in for something truly unique, you can also now use this leather to create your own bag through the Ignes ‘Elite’ Bespoke, 4 step ‘build your own bag’ online service at www.igneselite.com.

Last but not least, don’t forget to vote for your favorite green and socially responsible bag at this year’s Independent Bag Awards! With a great variety: sophisticated vegetable tanned leather bags from Teich, fun canvas bags from Canopy Verde, geometric recycled wrapper bags from Ecoist, architectural recycled inner tube bags from Kontiki and edgy recycled rubber bags from Dres, you might even find your new summer bag!

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