Swedish Designers follow the NOHARM lead
Following in the footsteps of the UK based vanguard brand, NOHARM, Swedish designers trumpet their passion for environmentally-friendly and ethical fashion. Eco Chic – Towards Sustainable Swedish Fashion opened at the Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, showcasing Swedish fashion designers who take an environmentally-friendly and ethical approach to their work without sacrificing style. [...]
Ethical Fashion Show 2010 in Paris
The Ethical Fashion Show 2010. The seventh edition of Ethical Fashion Show 2010 will take place in Paris from 25th to 28th September. The main topic for 2010 will be: Fashion and Biodiversity. The Docks en Seine will be an illustrious venue for this growing event.
Brigitte Bardot eco-friendly bag
Brigitte Bardot goes NOHARM. The French handbag brand is launching the “Bardot,” an eco-friendly bag with 100% natural fabrics! The sixties icon participated in the creation of the bag that bares her name, which will hopefully become the new It-bag. I can’t wait to see it, the Bardot launches in June!
Gilded Age Sample Sale May 2010
We at Kitmeout are a big fan of Gilded Age and are happy to report a sample sale for fans able to get to New York. Last year Gilded Age started its small bi-annual Sample Sale. The events were held in March of 2009 and August 2009, and both times they were a tremendous success. [...]
Bono to appear in Vuitton Ad?
Louis Vuitton set the bar high for its “core values” campaign by casting the likes of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and, more recently, soccer legends Pelé, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane, who appear playing Football in a Madrid cafe for the next series, shot by Annie Leibovitz and slated to break in June magazines. [...]
SWEAT SHOP Café Couture
What is Sweat Shop? Sweat Shop is a “cafe couture”, a new creative concept situated near hotspot canal St Martin in Paris. Imagine 10 work stations equipped with 10 SINGER sewing machines and one central communal table. And with 5 courses that are being offered every week to perfect your knitting and sewing skills or [...]
Eco-friendly Footwear
Following in the footsteps of the NOHARM eco brand… End-of-life issues are among the thorniest in sustainability, but two footwear players are taking it on. This spring, Waltham, Mass.-based Earth Footwear is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with a spring ’10 launch of its biodegradable sole, which will be rolled out across the [...]
Vegan Shoes x NOHARM Shoes
Europe has an historical relationship with well-cobbled men’s shoes, so it’s no surprise that the craftsmanship of the UK’s NOHARM is classic and uncompromising. Handcrafted in Italy under fair-labor conditions, certified by the Vegan Society as 100% cruelty-free and eco-conscious, the shoes look as amazing as their planet-saving efforts. Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide [...]
2010 Eco-Friendly Fashion Show
F.A.M.E Los Angeles presents L.A. Fashion Corner 2010 Eco-Friendly Fashion Show “Its Caring With Style” Featuring eco-friendly fashion designs and sustainable products from today’s hottest designers and exhibitors. Hosted by Deal or no Deal’s “Lucky #13” Leyla Milani. Live performance from Djoir Jordan and Groovaholix. Seating available for confirmed celebs and VIP’s. Sponsored by Milani [...]
UKFT supports TICT
UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT) will support the Textile Industry Children’s Trust (TICT), a specialist trade charity that helps children at risk. Founded in 1853 to ‘cloth, maintain and educate the children of warehousemen, clerks and agents of the textile industry’, the charity has expanded its work to include children (from birth to 18 [...]
Sienna Miller, Kylie Minogue, Claudia Schiffer Strip for Charity
Four years after she beat breast cancer, Kylie Minogue is raising awareness of the disease in a stunning new campaign. The 41-year-old strips off and wears nothing but a smile and silk sheet with the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer logo across in a striking image taken by acclaimed photographer Mario Testino. Joining Minogue in the [...]
TOMS Shoes Announces Its 3rd Annual One Day Without Shoes
With every pair purchased, TOMS gives a new pair of shoes to a child in need. In an effort to bring attention to the impact a simple pair of shoes can have in a child’s life, TOMS Shoes announces its third annual One Day Without Shoes campaign and encourages everyone worldwide to go barefoot on [...]
Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation – Naked Street Fashion
Elena Franchuk shows this look during Ukraine Fashion Week for the ANTIAIDS Foundation show Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation announced the launch of graphic design contest Naked Street Fashion targeting safe sex issue. The task of the contest is to develop copy and images to be placed on the underwear. Our goal is to present the [...]
Kate Moss supports Sport Relief charity
Kate Moss has shown her support for the Sport Relief 2010 campaign by modelling a one-off dress woven out of recycled mosquito nets. The supermodel created a buzz in the blue design, created by William Tempest for Sports Relief 2010′s commitment to tackling malaria and is to be auctioned to raise money for the charity. [...]
G-Star Raw, MDGS
Following in the footsteps of the NOHARM brand, G-Star Raw continues to be a leader both in design, and in advocacy. They use sustainable fabrics like organic cotton and they are also at the forefront where socially responsible production methods and labor are concerned. Check out G-Star’s End Poverty 2015 Campaign in affiliation with the [...]
Bid on Boxfresh Trainers & Help Haiti
Bid on Boxfresh Trainers & Help Haiti!!! You can now bid on these exclusive customised trainers in aid of Haiti via the Ctrl.Alt.Shift auction page. Illustrations hand drawn by Owen P, an esteemed illustrator and graffiti artist who has worked with the likes of D*face, Mysterious Al and All City. BID HERE
Vivienne Westwood x Pamela Anderson
Taking a leaf out of Maclaren’s old book of the contrived “rough and ready”, Select’s Tati joins Vivienne Westwood, her husband Andreas Kronthaler and Pamela Anderson for a graffiti adorned spring 2010 campaign image photographed by Juergen Teller.
Special charity event in aid of Haiti
True Tiger & Ctrl.Alt.Shift in Partnership with SOME Night for special charity event in aid of Haiti Date: Wednesday, 20th January Price: Minimum donation on the door £5 Location: The Den & Centro, 18 West Central St, London WC1A 1JJ SOMEnight, London’s premier weekly dance music event is opening its doors and decks to the [...]
Yéle Haiti
Yéle Haiti is a foundation started by Grammy-Award winning musician, producer and social entrepreneur Wyclef Jean that is changing lives in this desperately poor but optimistic nation. Through Yéle Haiti, Wyclef uses music, sports and the media to reinforce projects that are making a difference in education, health, environment and community development. In practical terms [...]
Sustainable Fashion – Fashion Fusion Expo 2010
To raise awareness about fashion and sustainability, Fashion Fusion Expo 2010 is hosting an event on 12-13th March to show that sustainable fashion can still be stylish. The event will feature sustainable designers including Ethical, African, Caribbean, Asian Oriental and European clothing, shoes and accessories. Fashion Fusion aims to attract more than 6000 visitors. Expo [...]
Vegan Shoes – NOHARM Shoes, Clothes & Accessories
Whilst studying at a London Uni a meat eating antagonist highlighted the glaring hypocrisy in my defence of a vegetarian lifestyle. “Why,” he asked, “do you trumpet the health benefits and compassionate virtues of a vegetarian and/or vegan diet whilst wearing a square metre of cow’s skin on your feet?” I had no adequate reply [...]
Natural Indigo – Gilded Age Jeans
In today’s market place Natural Indigo Jeans are a very rear fenomenon. These type of Jeans are very expensive and require lengthy and time consuming process to get made. There are only few companies in the world that make Natural Indigo Jeans, one is Gilded Age. Almost all blue jeans are chemically dyed these days. [...]
Vivienne Westwood follows NOHARM Organic T-Shirt
It turns out those green slogans in Vivienne Westwood’s spring ’10 collection weren’t just for decoration. In fact, the dame takes her environmental statements quite seriously and has followed the NOHARM organic vision. Most recently she teamed up with Anvil Knitwear to design a sustainable T-shirt to raise awareness about and help stop global deforestation, [...]
Lacoste Save the Croc, Save Your Logo
Lacoste will spend $500,000 over the next three years to help preserve endangered crocodiles. Lacoste was talked into the scheme by the people at the Global Environment Facility, the World Bank, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature who run the “Save Your Logo Initiative.” Lacoste is the first fashion company to sign on: [...]
Yves Saint Laurent New Vintage II
This winter, Yves Saint Laurent introduces ‘New Vintage II’ in the footsteps of the original NOHARM brand, the second edition of an environmentally-conscious capsule collection designed to reclaim, recycle and sustain. Recycling unused fabrics from the YSL archive, and adapting them to his classic silhouettes, Creative Director Stefano Pilati marries feminine refinement with sustainability — [...]
Morrissey x Stella McCartney Shoes
Following in the footsteps of the inimitable, NOHARM brand, Morrissey is working on a leather-free range of footwear with Paul McCartney’s daughter Stella, the fashion designer has revealed. Both Morrissey and McCartney are vegetarians, and although the pair’s designs are still in the early stages, she says they are hoping to launch the range next [...]
Wildlife Conservation Society x Edun
For a limited time, when you make a $25 donation to The Wildlife Conservation Society, you’ll receive a $25 Gift Certificate from EDUN Wildlife Conservation Society and Edun, an apparel company founded by Ali Hewson and U2 frontman Bono, established the Conservation Cotton Initiative (CCI). This collaboration aims to improve the livelihoods of communities in [...]
Sugar Cane Union Star Jeans at NIRO
Here’s the team at one of the UK’s leading fashion stores, NIRO, wearing some of the best denim on the planet, the Sugar Cane Union Star jeans! Sugar Cane, Union Star vintage cut denim jeans Heavy 14.25 ounce double ring-spun cotton One wash red line selvage denim Star shaped hand stitching on back pockets Five [...]
W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund
October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.” Lu Guang, freelancer photographer, started as [...]
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Green Credentials
GOING GREEN: Renaud Dutreil does his part to make New York a greener city. Every morning, the chairman of the U.S. arm of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton cycles to work, and carefully locks his bike at the red, stiletto-shaped rack by Bergdorf Goodman. On Monday, Dutreil and LVMH took their commitment to a better [...]
