Can an industry synonymous with frippery, individualism, and overconsumption evolve to encompass ethics, collectivism, and restraint?
AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 12.09.2009 | Style
LONDON — Forget the animal-unfriendly fur coat and the painted-on pants made from polluting petroleum-based products. A runway show in Copenhage...
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 11.25.2009 | Style
Fashionphiles flocked to the first annual Frocktail Party on November 12th, eager to bid on a bevy of designer dresses up for auction in support of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Jasmin Malik Chua | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green
Fashion isn't something that exists in dresses only, as the late great Coco Chanel once said. It has to do with ideas, the way we live, and how we relate to the world around us.
Richard Seireeni | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
What if home designers added a 'dry room' to their plans -- a place where the furnace, water heater (or tankless water heater) and washer/dryer could live together along with built-in lines or racks for drying clothes?
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 11.18.2009 | Style
A growing number of eco-designers are trying to reduce their carbon footprint, by using production processes that are gentler on the environment and all natural materials, such as hemp and cotton.
Jeffrey Hutchison | Posted 09.19.2009 | Style
Embracing sustainability and crafting a new face of luxury need not be at odds; by exploring ways to achieve both simultaneously, an exciting new era of of design can be borne.
Alexandra Sinderbrand | Posted 09.04.2009 | Style
Wear a cami under your shirt, don some spandex under your jeans, and/or make like the ladies at the Upper West Side Goodwill, lose the modesty bit and get nekkid in the back part of the store.
Alexandra Sinderbrand | Posted 08.29.2009 | Style
Here's the thing about thrift a la Goodwill or the Salvation Army: There are brandtastic gems to be had, but extracting the good from the bad, ugly and uglier is no easy task.
Starre Vartan | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green
Julie Gilhart, Barney's: "If the way we make beautiful clothing... actually damages the natural environment and our precarious health within it, how can we enjoy this kind of so called beauty?"
treehugger.com | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green
Embracing an "ecocredo" of sustainability, ethics, and local production, London-based Elena Garcia constructs her exquisite and dramatic multifunction...
planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 08.06.2009 | Green
You may be showing off your bamboo couture skirt and feeling pretty green. While the fabric may be the stuff eco dreams are made of, did you stop to t...
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green
Home is a visual masterpiece, a compilation of incredible aerial shots that dramatize the staggering statistics of environmental degradation and peril that many of us are already fairly familiar with.
Zorianna Kit | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment
Despite overcast skies and cooler-than-normal temperatures, celebs still showed up to get pampered, collect goodies and socialize at the MTV Movie Awards gifting suites.
Hillary Newman | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green
If I have learned one thing about traveling, it's that the best vehicle to learn about a place and their culture is through their dress code. Two of my favorite eco-fashion designers have a similar approach.
Hillary Newman | Posted 05.30.2009 | Style
I created popomomo to act as the antithesis of disposable fashion.
Patricia Martin | Posted 05.30.2009 | Chicago
As always, SAIC's annual fashion show inspires and transcends.
Zem Joaquin | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green
Keep dry in sustainable style by supporting companies that are producing environmentally conscious rain gear.
Hillary Newman | Posted 04.09.2009 | Green
I recently dropped by one of my favorite eco boutiques in LA, Visionary, for the Mr. Larkin Trunk show- nearly knocked me out of my heels.
Victoria Namkung | Posted 04.04.2009 | Style
Vintage is a great way to be fashionable and environmentally conscious, but focus on the classics and beware of trendy styles. Higher end vintage stores will have done the editing for you.
Hillary Newman | Posted 05.19.2009 | Green
Watch this... So, do you know what's in your knickers? Probably not. Creators and sisters, Jenny White and Verity White, made this film and feature...
Tracy Hepler | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green
As twentysomethings, we have the power to influence the future of our environment. With our practices, our wallets and the Internet, we have the ability to significantly steer the course of the Green movement.
Summer Rayne Oakes | Posted 01.06.2009 | Style
Check out all my sustainable knit-picks for the chilly season: They're chunky, knitted, warm and woolly and all environmentally-sensible.
Summer Rayne Oakes | Posted 12.01.2008 | Style
I don't know how many times it took dinner with Shawn to light a fire under my ass--maybe three? Maybe four? I don't even remember the restaurant, bu...
Jasmin Malik Chua | Posted 12.21.2009 | Style