Sugar Cane Co Pants
We all know Sugar Cane Co as the original eco-brand from Japan. The brand is synonymous is classic style and innovative materials. Here we get a butchers at a unique combo of Sugar Cane Pants and Waistcoat vest. Sugar Cane SC40942 covert engineer pants, grey black cotton heather, vintage cut loose fit workwear covert engineer [...]
Abercrombie & Fitch Linked to Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals, Says Greenpeace – But let’s not forget FAKES!
Abercrombie & Fitch, Ralph Lauren, H&M Linked to Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals, Says Greenpeace (But let’s not forget FAKES!) Abercrombie & Fitch is among 14 global brands Greenpeace is calling out for allegedly releasing hormone-disrupting chemicals—specifically nonylphenol ethoxylates—into the environment. Used as surfactants in textile production, NPEs subsequently break down to form toxic nonphenol, an endocrine disruptor [...]
Sugar Cane jacket & Shirt 2011 Collection
The original environmental brand, Sugar Cane, offers a stunning new collection of denim and work wear. Have a butchers! Sugar Cane SC12241H brown vintage wash denim work wear jacket, brown vintage wash, vintage cut work wear brown denim button front jacket/overshirt. 8oz brown denim 1910s era model. Heavy fading and staining to give realistic vintage [...]
RMC Martin Ksohoh & MKWS new T-Shirt Collections
Here’s a sneak peek at the Red Monkey Company & MKWS new T-Shirt Collections. The new styles include a “Pray for Japan” Special Charitable edition.
Sustainable fashion gaining momentum?
The Guardian reports: “Luxury and sustainability are two words you may not particularly expect to find in the same sentence. You may even think they are antithetical concepts.” But this is just what innovative NOHARM brand has been doing for the past 6 years. Looks like the traditional old brands are starting to get the [...]
NIKE, Inc. Commitment on Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals
Following Greenpeace’s challenge to NIKE to clean up toxic river pollution in China, the sports-fashion goliath has picked on the picked up the gauntlet… In support of the principles of prevention and precaution1, and in line with our overall commitment to water stewardship, NIKE, Inc.2 supports the goal of systemic change to achieve zero discharge [...]
Veja and FrenchTrotters Sustainable-Luxury Trainers
Continuing the theme of psuedo-green style, here we take a butchers at the new Veja and FrenchTrotters Sustainable-Luxury Trainers. Available in low and boot styles and priced at £110 and £125, they come in three colors, navy blue, white, and camel. The green angle is attained by the wild Amazonian rubber and leather that has [...]
Deconstruct a pair of jeans
For her UBS 12 x 12 presentation, Moore presents Garment Work, a durational collective performance project in which the artist and visitors deconstruct a pair of jeans. Over the course of the month, in twice-weekly performance/workshop/discussions, Moore creates connections between Cambodia’s garment manufacturing industry, where the jeans were made, and Michigan Avenue, where the jeans [...]
Nature is a language, can’t you read? by Lucio Castro
Lucio Castro, Spring/Summer 2012 Following the lead set by the NOHARM brand, ex Armani Exchange (yes, Armani Exchange), Argentinean designer Lucio Castro sees the future in sustainable fabrics and artisanal techniques. His Spring/Summer 2012 collection, named “Nature is a language, can’t you read?” after a Smiths’ (Morrissey being a famous veggie) song, comprises clean-cut, minimalist [...]
APC Jeans Go Green!
APC goes green by recycling. Simply take your old APC jeans over to their Dover Street store and swap them for a brand new pair for half the price. Your old jeans will then be washed, pressed and resold as part of the new Butler Worn-Out series. Not exactly sure if this is going to [...]
Arsenal 125th Anniversary Kit – Days down the Woolwich Market
I remember years ago working down the Woolwich Market near the old London Arsenal the original home of the Gunners which makes the 125th Anniversary kit especially meaningful. I know there’s been a lot of questions over the style of the new kit and badge and although I’m no Gunners fan, I have to say [...]
Katharine Hamnett’s original CHOOSE LIFE t-shirts
Katharine Hamnett’s original CHOOSE LIFE t-shirt brought her worldwide fame. It was her biggest seller in the eighties and now it’s back and available in 100% organic cotton. CHOOSE LIFE first appeared in a Buddhist exhibition that Lynne Franks, of Ab Fab fame, hosted. The CHOOSE LIFE t-shirt embodies an all-encompassing statement about ideal behaviour. [...]
Chipkos – World’s Most Expensive Flip Flop
Chipkos today announces the release of a one-of-a-kind pair of sandals, hand-painted by renowned Los Angeles artist, David Palmer. At $18,000 a pair, this collector’s piece is priced as the world’s most expensive flip flop. With its purchase, Chipkos will protect 100,000 square feet of endangered rain forest land. This piece represents a unique opportunity [...]
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD: ETHICAL FASHION AFRICA PROJECT
‘Human design- made from the transmission of brain to hand, I think that’s wonderful!’ We really couldn’t agree more Vivienne. Together with Yoox.com Westwood is working with the UN International Trade Centre’s Ethical Fashion Programme to create fair and dignified employment for some of the worlds poorest people while protecting the environment. The enclosed film [...]
Schmidttakahashi Uses iPhone Tech to Track Upcycled Garments’ History
Even as art-school classmates in Berlin, Eugenie Schmidt and Mariko Takahashi shared a fascination for people and what they wore. The kindred spirits soon launched Schmidttakahashi, a fashion label that explores the fragile concept of identity by piecing castoffs in radical new ways. Each piece in their “Reanimation” collection comes with a Quick Response (or [...]
Eco-Friendly Ladieswear – Jungeun Lee
Clothing designers don’t have to limit themselves to fabric, needle, and thread. Royal College of Art textile student Jungeun Lee, for one, removes them from the equation altogether. To create her “Wrapped Garments,” Lee molds synthetic yarn around a form to create the desired silhouette—no cutting or sewing required. By applying heat (look Ma, no [...]
Kris Van Assche x Misericordia – Tee-shirt for Japan
Kris Van Assche in collaboration with Misericordia, has designed an exclusive t-shirt for Japan. All profits will be used to support the relief efforts of the Japanese Red Cross, for their ongoing help to those affected by the tragic events of March 2011. The design of the t-shirt refers to a message from the designer [...]
Gilded Age – FW 2011 Presentation
Fashion photographer Graham Lott teamed up with the Creative Agency Boyce & Brown to create a short cinematic video showcasing the Gilded Age Fall/Winter 2011 Collection. Inspired by patriot Joseph Lloyd’s paranoid flight from Long Island after the British seized it, the project brings the area’s past into its present, fusing the land’s history with [...]
Design For Humanity Casting Call – Billabong Runway
The Billabong Design For Humanity event kicks of with the Runway Show. A one of a kind bikini fashion show showcased on the catwalk by top runway models. This video goes behind the scenes to the casting call. Design For Humanity fashion, music, art event benefiting VH1 Save The Music Foundation. Happening June 15, 2011 [...]
Patagonia Clothing – Our Common Waters Campaign
No natural resource is more precious. None is shrinking faster as people consume more and more. Our Common Waters, Patagonia’s new campaign, is about balancing human water use with the needs of animals and plants. The more water people use, the less there is for everything else. The more water we waste, the more habitat [...]
Karl Lagerfeld, Uniqlo and Condé Nast Japan aids Japanese Red Cross
Uniqlo and Condé Nast Japan have partnered to create 10 T-shirts designed by Lady Gaga, Karl Lagerfeld, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Kidman and Alber Elbaz, among others, with proceeds to benefit the Japanese Red Cross. The T-shirts go on sale June 25 for $19.90 and the retailer expects to donate about $1.2 million to the organization [...]
Sun Surf Hawaiian Shirts
Hawaiian Shirts a la mode? If they are you can’t beat the original Sun Surf Hawaiian Shirts! The Hawaiian aloha shirts from the 1930’s – 1950’s have become highly collectible, being correctly perceived by many as an indigenous form of art unique to America and the islands of Hawaii. With the great influx of U. [...]
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 2011 COSTUME INSTITUTE BENEFIT
BURBERRY DRESSES GUESTS AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 2011 COSTUME INSTITUTE BENEFIT London, 2 May 2011 – Christopher Bailey, Burberry Chief Creative Officer, hosted a table at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011 Costume Institute Benefit. Burberry dressed the following guests at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011 Costume Institute Benefit in New York. [...]
FYE Shoes – Fashionable, Affordable, Green & Responsible Footwear from France
To reduce transportation emissions and cost, the recycled cardboard shoe box has been reduced to its minimum amount of material and size. However, according to Ana Villagorda the shoes are made in Vietnam, which adds quite a milage to the boxes. This is I believe for the same reasons that Worn Again produces in China; [...]
JAPANESE ORPHANS EARTH QUAKE TEE SHIRT BY RMC
Ai Heart Japan Auction
Sugar Cane Jeans in RWDMAG
Sasha Pivovarova for Free People April 2011
Sasha Pivovarova for Free People April 2011 The video to accompany our April 2011 catalog, shot at Milk Studios in NYC by Guy Aroch featuring model Sasha Pivovarova. Music by Casey Burge.
