Ford Motors Hits The Runway at Hong Kong Fashion Week with Sustainable Design

Ford on the Runway

 Ford’s sustainable seat fabrics make a stylish debut at Hong Kong Fashion Week

This week, Ford Motor Company made its debut on the Hong Kong Fashion Week runway as part of The EcoChic Design Award 2015/16 grand finale show. Five outfits featured in the show were made entirely from the up-cycling of Ford’s sustainable seat fabrics, which are made from recycled plastic bottles. 

Take Notice Eco-Friendly Beach Bums...Body Glove Style Goes Green

Body Glove Greens Up in Cool Recycling Gig

When I was a teenager, Lord help me when I think of those high waited swim suits I wore, but I did have one suit that I swear would still look current today.  Okay so maybe my daughters would disagree but it was a lime green two piece bikini from Body Glove and it was one of my all time favs.  Now I have fallen in love with Body Glove all over again as they are launching an eco-inititatve that is going to keep rubber beach shoes out of our landfills and in the loop.

Behind the Green Fashion Scene: How We Are Helping Put an End to Toxic Fashion!

Zara Rocks and So Do You!

Remember last week when I told you about Greenpeace and their petition asking Zara to take the toxic out of fashion?  Well last week Zara, one of the world's largest fashion retailer announced a commitment to Detox!

As part of Greenpeace's global "Detox" campaign last week, more than 700 people, in over 80 cities spanning 20 countries around the globe, protested by staging street theatre and conducting "mannequin" walk-outs to demand ZARA commit to eliminating the use of all hazardous chemicals throughout its supply chain.

The participants, from Bangkok to Buenas Aires, also called on ZARA store managers to forward Greenpeace's Detox demands to their headquarters, after new research found traces of hazardous chemicals in ZARA clothing items, some of which can break down in the environment to become hormone-disrupting or even cancer-causing substances.

How to Be Green? Don't Be a Fashion Victim! Help the Fashion Industry Clean Up Its Act

Help Put an End to Toxic, Hormone Disrupting Fashion!

I have written many times about fashion's dirty little chemical secret and finally we are making progress in outing them and creating significant change for the planet and our health.  For the last few months, Greenpeace has been conducting research into many of the world’s top clothing brands and what they have found has been disturbing to say the least.  The news from Greenpeace is that ZARA, the world's largest fashion retailer along with several other retailers, is polluting waters in China with hazardous, hormone disrupting and cancer causing chemicals and we need to take action now to put an end to toxic fashion!

Twilight's Taylor Lautner Looks Hot in Green and You Can Too

What's Hot, Green, Cuddly and Waiting for You? 

My 12 and 15 year old daughters think Twilight's, Taylor Lautner is one of the hottest stars in Hollywood and I suspect that most ladies would agree. What they may not know is that Taylor looks even more cuddly in green.  And guess what?  Anyone can get their green on just like Taylor!

How To Get Taylor's Eco-Friendly, Unisex Style

At a recent Breaking Dawn Part 2 presser in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Twilight heartthrob Taylor Lautner looked totally adorable in Alternative Apparel's 3/4-sleeve raglan henley tee with maroon jeans. His casual look was right on trend and eco-friendly.
Lautner's vintage-inspired top is an  affordable eco-fashion option at just $34.

The unisex tee is part of the Alternative Earth collection that is made of super soft, sustainable fabric they call Eco-Fleece. Pair it with leggings or skinny jeans for that sexy "just-borrowed-this-from-my-hunky-boyfriend-Taylor's-closet" look on lazy wardrobe days and you will be rocking Taylor's eco-friendly, trendy vibe.

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P.S.- People always ask me where I get my organic food and personal care products and I love to tell them about The Green PolkaDot Box! Backed by the Organic Consumer's Association and EnvironmentalBooty.com, you can easily buy NonGMO organic groceries, including Harvest Fresh Organic produce, at wholesale pricing online.  It's like a Sam's club but focused on products for green, healthy living! You can even shop by dietary restrictions like gluten free, vegan or diabetic and it all comes right to your front door. Enjoy!



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Latest News on Project Runway Winner, Christian Siriano [video] - His Take on Creating a Greener Fashion Footprint and Bringing Eco-Fashion to the Masses

Bravo's Youngest Project Runway Winner, Christian Siriano, Has The Answer To Creating a Greener Fashion Footprint and Bringing Eco-Fashion to the Masses

Recently, while I was in Detroit for the Go Further with Ford Motors event, I had the true pleasure of getting to talk with Christian Siriano, the youngest winner of one of my daughters' favorite shows, Bravo's Emmy nominated competition series, Project Runway.  Designer Siriano (@csiriano on Twitter) was extremely kind and accessible, especially compared to  Adrian Grenier, and I was delighted to be able to ask him one of my most burning eco questions.  How can we green the fashion industry's footprint to bring eco-fashion to the masses at an affordable price point?

Designer Siriano has already partnered with Payless Shoe Source to bring a line of super sexy and hot high end looking shoes to the masses and he recently met with the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to discuss ways the fashion industry can make less of an impact on the environment to create a greener fashion footprint.  Plus, as he was born in 1985, he was raised in an era where kids have had greening the environment incorporated into their school curriculum as well as their media.  I thought designer Siriano was the perfect person to ask about greening the fashion industry for all.

Here was his answer...