Being green is in from housing to now fashion, eco-friendly living is making a huge impression. Recently, companies have been making a huge effort to create eco-friendly products and an equally huge effort to market the fact that they are doing so. Thus, it is now becoming easier and easier to care about your environment, here are some fashion trends that are sure to have a low impact on your mother earth.

You would have to have lived in a cave over the past decade not to know that solar and the environment are some of the most pressing issues in our world today. Well a company called Costume National’s has come out with a product that is a purse with solar panels built in. Completely self sustained the solar panels on this purse allows its user to connect their gadgets to the USB outlets attached to them making it easy to avoid electrical outlets.

Many shoe designers are also making what are known as vegan shoes or non leather to be more specific. These shoes are created from all manmade materials such as wood grain and rubber. While they may sound too earthy for you, they actually do look like leather and not cardboard.

Many companies are also taking their product lines a step further and have introduced reusable shopping bags. These bags are often made out of canvas and are roomy enough to actually grocery shop with. Many stores have also created hot designs for the front that are making them fashion accessories as well.

Another eco-friendly fashion trend that is becoming increasingly popular is bamboo cotton. While these items can be a bit on the pricey side they are softer than anything you have ever felt. Bamboo fabric is a natural textile made from the pulp of bamboo grass and is more sustainable than most other textile fabrics. It is also light, strong, is mostly antibacterial and has excellent wicking properties.

One last trend to look out for is hemp fabric. Hemp is earth’s most beneficial agricultural crop and has being used to provide humans with all of their basic needs from food to clothing to shelter and medicine. Hemp clothing though has some awesome characteristics; they are warm as well as soft and reasonably priced as compared to bamboo fabric. Some say that hemp garments are style, comfort and environmental awareness all in one garment.

So whether you are looking for a purse, a hat, a t-shirt or a wedding gown there is an eco-friendly designer who has already met your needs. And make sure you are keeping your eye out because this trend is just getting started!

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Eco-friendly fashion is a hot trend. And you don’t have to sacrifice style or pay an arm and a leg to get eco-friendly trendy clothes. In this article we will talk about what is eco-friendly fashion, some eco-friendly fashion trends and designers that are offering stylish and affordable eco-friendly fashion clothing.

Different people define eco-friendly fashion differently but some of the key elements to eco-friendly fashion are materials and processes used by designers and manufacturers that are friendly to you and the earth. This may include materials such as organic cotton, bamboo, flax and hemp, among others that are biodegradable. Or use of processes that are organically safe and eco-friendly. For example, organic cotton production processes do not use pesticides that can harm your health or the planet’s health. Eco-friendly fashion trends also include packaging that is eco-friendly.

The benefits of eco-friendly fashion are not only long term value to the environment but it could have short-term health value to the user. Conventional clothing dyes and garment finishes can cause a wide variety of health problems from skin rashes, headaches, nausea and fatigue. Symptoms could include red cheeks and ears, dark circles under the eye and learning or behavior problems.

What’s hot in eco-friendly fashion? Use of eco-friendly silk, organic cotton and bamboo is hot. Although what gets branded as organic and ethical for silk depends on the type of silkworm used, and whether the silk-worm is killed as a by-product of the harvesting. Increasingly eco-friendly fashion designers are using natural color cottons, wools and other material to create outfits or vegetable dyes that are safer to make and use. Bamboo organic fabric is becoming quite trendy. Clothing made of bamboo organic fibers are robust and durable as denim even as it is soft and smooth as fine silk. Bamboo organic clothing can provide other benefits such as removing moisture and bacteria from the skin.

Talking about eco-friendly designers, Shubrah Designs at shubrah.com is solely focused on eco-friendly fashions. Designer Shubhra Chandra seeks to blend east and west seamlessly into a trendy line of casual tees and evening looks. She believes in natural fabrics and responsible and sustainable business practices.

Natalie Portman has teamed up with Tony Shoe Line to create designer shoes made of alternative materials. As she says, “This collection offers a great selection without compromising quality or style”. Stella McCartney has created a collection called “Green Collection” using only organic materials. She also tries to use eco-friendly material and processes throughout her various collections.

All-in-all, eco-friendly fashion trends are becoming more mainstream with each passing day. Countless haute couture designers are already successfully incorporating eco-friendly designs into their catwalk shows and my bet is that this trend is here to stay.

To know more about various eco-friendly designers, please search for eco friendly fashion online! You can find more details on Shubrah Designs at www.shubrah.com and you can read her blog at http://shubrah.blogspot.com/.

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“Using environment friendly garments is the smart way to go,” says lifestyle week.

Our environment is sick. Its temperature is rising. It is suffering from pollution. Thus, eco friendly is the word in whatever we do. Natural products have always been there in the world, but natural fabrics is now making its way into the fashion world. While cotton started the eco-friendly trend, bamboo is becoming a rising star in the fashion world along with jute and other vegetation extracts. The ecofriendly fashion trends have developed so much that we now have a fashion line of eco friendly jeans to wooden lingerie made from pine nut trees. In various fashion lifestyle week we find fashion accessories also getting ethical makeovers with eco friendly totes, cork boots, clutches and purses, ballet flats, etc. competing to beat the carbon footprints. You name it and the designers have it. Moreover, the trend that has walked the ramp of many a fashion lifestyle week is never going out of fashion.

Today a lifestyle week is all about apparels and fashion accessories in bamboo, coconut, banana fiber and hemp, natural indigo for jeans and using natural starch from potato and mimosa flowers. In the past there was not so much hype about the eco friendly fashion trends. It was mainly for the lack of awareness amongst people. Moreover, there were not much diversity in style and designs of eco friendly fabrics. Nowadays however, fashion designers are more and more incorporating in eco friendly designer costumes in their lifestyle week and shows. A fashion lifestyle week has a powerful appeal to launch new ecofriendly clothesline and make skin friendly fabrics popular. Not only a lifestyle week and a sole show will be able to increase the popularity of the eco friendly cloths. But there are various magazines and websites that are dedicated to the promotion of the eco friendly apparels and accessories. This the magazines and websites do by presenting a mix of affordable fashion, celebrity videos and interviews, photo galleries and thought-provoking features. Lifestyle week is organized by almost all metropolitan cities. A responsible fashion and lifestyle week like the Kolkata fashion and lifestyle week is here to prove that non-environment friendly fashion trends are not cool, trendy or glamorous in these times. Eco friendly clothes are the smart way to go to stop global warming due to pollution.

The primary theme of Kolkata fashion and lifestyle week in the year 2010 is eco friendly clothesline. This will obviously prove to the world that eco friendly designer dresses are not glamorous but are stylish and trendy. This way, a successful fashion lifestyle week can always set the trends for a new fashion all over the world. For the fashion conscious world, wearing environment friendly designer clothes is no longer hippy or odd, instead the trend is catching the world as an inferno. It is style, comfort and environmental awareness all in one garment. The garments are light, strong and most times anti bacterial. With a good lifestyle week to set the trend it is possible to look eco-glam instead.

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The fashion industry has woken up to embrace an altogether new trend by the name of “green trend” or “eco trend”. This Go Green culture actually refers to use of eco-friendly ways to produce things of use like clothes, bags, and other accessories. According to STEP (Sustainable Technology Education Product), eco fashion trends pay special attention to “the environment, working conditions of the people in the [fashion] industry and the health of the consumers.” Hence these efforts are oriented towards striking a perfect balance with nature as well as keeping everyone happy.

Green fashion clothes have to meet certain criteria before living up to its expectations. Eco-friendly clothes are made of raw organic materials that cause no harm to the environment. It is vital for all eco-friendly products to be organic so that they can serve the purpose of their existence. Around 70% of our clothes are made of cotton. These days, cotton crops are fed on pesticides which are poisonous to the environment. Hence use of organic cotton becomes obligatory.

Organic cotton is grown without the use of pesticides and insecticides. Besides being very expensive to the farmers, pesticides and insecticides spell immense harm to the environment. Hence cutting them off from the production process is the healthiest option.

Besides organic cotton, linen, organic wool, natural dyes, and hemp are being used widely in the fashion industry under the Go Green banner. Linen is made from flax and uses minimum amount of fertilizers. Use of natural dyes made from plants, vegetables and roots keeps off those polluting contaminants which can be highly poisonous once they enter the food chain.

Hemp is one item that can be used to produce eco friendly clothing as well as reusable shopping bags. Hemp is the common name for plants of the entire genus Cannabis. Industrial hemp is used in the following- paper, textile, biodegradable plastic, health food, fuel, bags.

With environmental concerns making headlines every other day, the fashion industry has done well to keep pace with people’s inclinations. Today’s style mantra is being eco-friendly but with style.

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