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What Will Fashion Look Like in 2025? 4 Fashion Futures

Published by Celestyna Brozek on May 20, 2010

I though I would round off techno week at Green by Design by giving you a little peek at a remarkable report I recently ran across. Forum for the Future recently collaborated with Levi Strauss and Co. and published a report envisioning four potential scenarios for how fashion will look in 2025.

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Using the Web to Change Consumer Behavior

Published by Celestyna Brozek on May 19, 2010

People need variety and novelty, and therefore will always be consuming. It’s about doing it in an intelligent and sustainable way. So how to get our shopping fix without wasting resources?
Here’s one idea: make the tangible intangible. Can virtual shopping replace physical consumption?
Social media is revolutionizing the world and that includes fashion. Can it train consumers and companies to shop and produce sustainably?

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In Defense of Techno-Fashion

Published by Celestyna Brozek on May 18, 2010

There’s plenty of random “techno fashion” out there, so of it really awesome, most of it is…well, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post, whenever there is a new movement or technology underway, the first attempts will always be prototypes – awkward first steps. But to me this phase is the most important! So here’s to the early adopters, the mad scientists, and the dreamers who also dare to do! For instance: Jeans that function as batteries? By using special e-ink…

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Fashion Needs Technology Like the Deserts Need the Rain

Published by Celestyna Brozek on May 17, 2010

Sustainable fashion and technology go hand in hand. If I had to name the thing that I thought was most important to the future of sustainable fashion, besides changing the collective attitude of our culture, I would confidently say technology. So this week is an ode to the marriage of fashion and technology in as many forms as we can find. Today: the 60BAG and dissolving wedding gowns

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Weekly Rewind: Let Your Conscientiousness Be Your Guide

Published by Mira Torres on May 14, 2010

We’re green. We’re conscientious. We do what we can. We’re quite possibly the better breed of consumers because when we purchase, we make it a moral choice, and decide by finishing with the best possible choice for ourselves, and ultimately the environment. From what inspires us to the different aspects of consumer packaging, this week at Green By Design, we take you to the different perspectives of conscientious producing and purchasing.

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Fresh Picked: the Greenest Jewels of All!

Published by Celestyna Brozek on May 13, 2010

We’re not kidding when we call it green! It’s literally made from greenery! Jewelry that grows – on you. OK, enough with the puns, and…eye candy: begin.

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Vagadu’s Visionary: Joui Turandot Inspires Us!

Published by Celestyna Brozek on May 12, 2010

Wow, it’s been a while since we did an interview! You’ll definitely get your interview fix with Vagadu’s Joui Turandot, though! Read on for inspiration from the last of the Bohemians – it’s not often we get to chat with a true artiste! Joui is the founder of the label Vagadu, an audacious line of evening wear and separates hand-crafted out of reclaimed clothing. Each piece is nurtured to perfection by Joui’s visionary eye and artistic instincts.

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Packaging Fashion: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Published by Celestyna Brozek on May 11, 2010

Sustainability in fashion encompasses a lot of things. It’s not just about using the greenest materials to make your product. The product is actually a tiny fraction of the business – who cares if you’re using organic cotton if your production is sloppy and you generate a lot of unnecessary waste? Or if you pack each shirt in an individual box? Packaging is one key aspect that is often overlooked when it comes to evaluating how green a business is, but that’s where a lot of waste occurs.

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Weekly Rewind: Something Old, Something New

Published by Mira Torres on May 07, 2010

There’s nothing we love more at Green By Design than making what was once old new again. There’s something about recycling, upcycling, and revamping that we just can’t resist. Could it be the creative thought that’s put into it? Or the fact that product consumption is reduced? It’s both! Eco fashion garments which are created into new pieces of wardrobe art and combined with environmental goodness is exactly the kind of sustainable work that floats our boats.

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Denim Double Down!

Published by Celestyna Brozek on May 06, 2010

Denim is both amazingly durable and incredibly harmful to the environment when produced conventionally – so many chemicals and water go into dying it and applying the various washes and finishes – but I love my denim! A world without jeans would be like an amusement park with no rides….so I’ve started brainstorming/researching ways we can “eco up” jeans so I can look at them without feeling like I’m cheating on the Earth.

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Retail Trends Go Green

Published by Celestyna Brozek on May 05, 2010

The fashion retail landscape has taken a few interesting turns as of late – perhaps because of the recession, new marketing strategies were needed, but the common thread in all of these “turns” is a time-sensitive-limited-edition product, which in the vast sea of fast fashion and mass production out there, gives consumers something special and unique. Some “new” trends I’ve noticed are exclusive members only shops, pop-up shops and designer collaborations.

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Poem: Sewing and Swapping are the New Shopping

Published by Celestyna Brozek on May 04, 2010

I am seeing more and more community sewing centers popping up, more and more local clothing swaps happening, and more and more workshops on how to make/alter/mend your own clothes. I am officially calling it people – get in on that game before you get left behind. The past is now the future and in this case, being stuck in the present is where you don’t want to be. After all, how are you going to feel when there you are in your community garden with all your neighbors, and you’re the only one who’s wearing store-bought overalls?

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Hospital Gowns – From Scrub In to Stunning!

Published by Celestyna Brozek on May 03, 2010

Sometimes all it takes is a little nip here, a little tuck and a little pleat to take something baggy and give it a fresh new face! If it sounds like we’ve gone doctor on you, then you’re kinda right! 1 o.a.k. takes discarded scrubs under the knife and with a ruthless new regimen of pleating, dying, draping and fabulous design, transforms them into confections that rival Armani.

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“LUSH-ious” Living

Published by elizabethhall on November 30, 2009

If you had told me two months ago to go ahead and throw lemon juice, yogurt, and avocado in a blender and then proceed to have me put in on my face, I would have said you were crazy. But for some reason LUSH made me want to do it. Ever since I have discovered their fabulous little store on San Francisco’s Powell Street, I have become addicted to shopping their amazing assortments of affordable organic and vegan beauty products.

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Going Green Has Never Tasted So Sweet!

Published by elizabethhall on November 12, 2009

Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more out of your Snicker’s candy bar besides a wonderful night of gluttony at the movies, think again! Candy wrappers, soda cans, and old tires are the new fur and leather of hand bags…and it only gets greener. Ecoist has learned to combine fashion and ingenuity to bring us a line of handbags constructed completely out of candy wrappers, tire rubber, food packaging, and other materials that would otherwise be tossed into our local landfills

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Is EcoFashion An Oxymoron?

Published by Vanessa Brunner on October 23, 2009

After a series of really interesting comments on my last post (It’s Not Easy Being Green), I started thinking a lot about the question: What does it really mean to be green? It seemed like everyone has a different answer, and everyone has a valid point.

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It’s Not Easy Being Green

Published by Vanessa Brunner on October 19, 2009

Controversy is certainly no stranger to the fashion world. From model catfights to sweatshop exposés, there’s usually more than enough drama to go around.
Of course, Ecofashion is no exception—and more often than not, the drama stems from greenwashing. While may eco consumers remain cynical about many so called green products out there, there are also many lines and names that active eco consumers feel like they can trust.

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Nau: Encouraging Change, One Grant At A Time

Published by Vanessa Brunner on October 14, 2009

If you haven’t heard about Portland based Nau, you should definitely take a peek at their line.
This NW brand has been doing green long before it became cool. Their clothes are so fantastic, Nau has converted a lot of people to the green movement just because of the incredible style and quality of their clothes.
This year, Nau sponsored it’s first annual $10,000 Grant for Change. The idea was to support people who have started and created lasting and positive change in the world around them.

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Q&A With Stephanie Doucette of Doucette Duvall

Published by Vanessa Brunner on September 30, 2009

Stephanie Doucette of the Doucette Duvall–the eco-fashion line chock full of girlish accents and ’60s esque dresses–gives us her two cents on fashion as a fundamental and what’s next for Doucette Duvall.

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Fall (Eco) Fashion Finds: part 1

Published by Vanessa Brunner on September 28, 2009

Fall is my favorite fashion season. It’s still warm enough to wear dresses, but crisp enough to start piling on luxurious coats, hats and scarves.
Here are a few of my latest obsessions…