Eco Fashion designers competing for the Vogue CFD Award

The CFDA/Vogue Fund helps emerging designers purse their design business plans. The prestigious award is seen as an accelerator of fashion careers and previous winners of this award include Alexander Wang and Proenza Schouler.
This year, amongst the ten finalists are two eco-designers Monique Pean and Alabama Chanin.

The fact that there are eco designers amongst the finalists says a lot about how eco fashion is competing with mainstream designers. It also recognizes that there are many talented designers who produce high quality, trend setting designs as well as giving back to the environment. The both certainly have my vote to win!

Sonic Fabric Ties

In collaboration with Julio Cesar artist Alyce Santoro has created a men’s tie made out of recycled cassette tapes.

Not only is sonic fabric eco friendly (it is made from 50% recycled audio cassette tape and 50% cotton) it is also audible, the sounds are contained in the weave and can be heard by running a tape head over the surface.

For information on where to buy the ties (or any other clothing made from sonic fabric) check out Sonic Fabric

Recycle your Bra for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I love my home country (the UK) for so may reasons but one of things that I am so proud of is how eco-fashion forward the market is. Particularly when it comes to the creative ideas for recycling your wardrobe. The latest - recycling bras in partnership with Breast Cancer Awareness.

For those of us who don't live in the UK fortunately there are still ways. There are several companies who recycle bras, take Arizona based Bosom Buddy Bra Recycling who will give away your discarded bras (in good condition) to a new owner.