Jasmin Malik Chua is the managing editor of Ecouterre, a website about the future of eco-fashion. A 12-year veteran of the publishing industry, Chua previously wrote about sustainable fashion and beauty for TreeHugger. She has an M.S. in biomedical journalism from New York University and a B.S. in animal biology from the National University of Singapore. In addition to stories published in online and print publications like Alive, Plenty, Inhabitat, and Sprig, Chua has been quoted as a green expert by such publications as The New York Times, BBC Radio, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and People.
While delegates from 192 nations honed in on Copenhagen to iron out a new climate-change treaty, the fashion industry had a group huddle of its own on Dec. 9 about the state of the planet. Held at the Danish...
In an industry where hot messes like Lindsay Lohan can catapult to the role of "creative advisor" for one of Europe's most vaunted fashion houses, it's easy to dismiss fashion as frivolous, shallow, and completely irrational. Who has time...
Posted December 19, 2009 | 20:41:40 (EST)