20 Green Fashion Designers You've Never Heard Of (SLIDESHOW)

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Embracing an "ecocredo" of sustainability, ethics, and local production, London-based Elena Garcia constructs her exquisite and dramatic multifunctional pieces by hand from organic silk, linen, and wool, along with low-impact dyes.

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[mbjesq]

10:40 PM on 07/12/2009

The obscure environmentally conscious designer people need to know more about is Uma Prajapati of Upasana Design Studio in Auroville, in the South of India.

Last year, UMA was invited to participate in a UNESCO exhibition, fashion show, and colloquium at the Louvre on "ethical fashion design." Her projects range from revitalization of the traditional weaving of Varanasi, to an extraordinary advocacy of sustainably grown organic cotton, to a high-fashion cloth shopping bag project that melds environmentalism with the gift economy.

To see her social activism in ethical fashion, go to the Upasana Design Studio website (http://www.upasana.in/) and click the middle button labeled "Projects".

Uma is an absolute superstar! She is also one of my all-time heroes.

[undrgrndgirl]

10:17 PM on 07/12/2009

cotton, "organic" or not is not very green...it consumes ALOT of water...HEMP is a far better textile plant...far less thirsty than cotton.

[NilesCrane]

05:57 PM on 07/12/2009

The only way to be green, is if we all live in caves and wear loin cloths...otherwise saying your "green" in this day and age is an oxymoron...

the fabric in those clothes are likely made (even if the material is an eco friendly material) in a huge textile plant, which if you knew, texile mills together cause more harm than all the cars on the planet..

im sure the people making the clothes are all highly paid with full benefits....yeah right

second those clothes have to be shipped on gas guzzling planes and 18 wheelers...sounds realy green to me...

just becuase your top is made from an organic cotton and bamboo mix, doesnt mean it and you are "green"....