Organic Fashion

Eco-friendly products are gaining major popularity. I can't seem to stop thinking of them. This
GO GREEN
campaign has taken over.
It's not all bad though the products incorporate concerns for the environment, the consumers & the people working in the fashion industry. This lens will hopefully guide you in the direction of some great organic products

Eco-friendly clothes are made using organic raw materials, such as cotton grown without pesticides and silk made by worms fed on organic trees. Eco-friendly fashion doesn't involve the use of harmful chemicals or bleaches to color fabrics! All environmentally safe fashion is suppose to be "from fair trade" - meaning the people who make the items are paid a fair price and have decent working conditions .
It is important to practice
Responsible Consumerism-

The act of consuming products and services while taking into account the impact and consequences for the environment and the society at large.

These are some of my favorite pieces from Organic by John Patrick from Spring 2009. Organic had an ethical focus to the runway show. Seventy percent of the line is made entirely from sustainable materials right here in the U.S., with the organic knitwear produced by Patrick's cottage-industry artisans in Peru. This was such a resourceful design.

Guess who else jumped on to eco-fashion?

Isaac Mizrahi

Not only is Isaac Mizrahi using the salmon skin for shoes- he also made a collection which I believed appeared at fashion week. Mizrahi's dress and shoes are made of discarded skins of Alaskan salmon. The dress has the Alaskan salmon sewn onto chiffon. Eco-fashion is growing but even Isaac said

"Frankly, unless something is really glamorous and amusing, I'm not going to sell my artistic principles short for the sake of 'going green.'"

The honest designer is able to keep his "artistic principles" in tact. Would you wear Alaskan Salmon skin if it was available at Target .
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