Posts Tagged: slow fashion

Top 5 Essential Eco Fashion Books

Uncover fashion’s dirtiest secrets with Urban Times’ recommended reading list. From eco innovations and stunning sustainable designs to erudite essays, these books shed light in the industry’s past, present, and feasible future.

Amanda Henderson

Amanda Henderson is an independent knitwear designer, working with hand knits, and based in Queens, New York.

Momo Wang

Momo Wang’s Third-Hand UpCycle Collection is a wonderful, brilliantly colored creative experimentation in repurposing found materials.

Lilah Horwitz

Lilah Horwitz describes her clothing experiments as the love child of art and journalism, expressed in the form of fashion.

Coco Eco New York Editor Loves

Sass Brown selects her list of editor loves in the January 2013 issue of Coco Eco Magazine.

Mona Luison

The sense of joy, playfulness and pure artistry in Mona Luison’s work embodies Picasso’s understanding of art as being innate and childlike. Her sense of worlds imagined, of naive creation, and of possibility, is palpable, through the depth and texture of her work. As Picasso himself said “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artists once he grows up.”

Eco Beth: Columbia Forum

On January 17th, 2013, the Columbia Business School Sustainable Business Committee held a packed forum in Manhattan. Many audience members were shocked to hear about how toxic the production of fabric is.

InAisce

The streamlined silhouettes, and geometric lines of InAisce’s collection, invoke a Zen like minimalism, while the minimal use of tone on tone color, and strictly limited color palette invoke a tribal, nomadic quality, compounded through depth and variation of texture.

Madison to Melrose

Madison to Melrose features ‘Eco Fashion’ by Sass Brown in their list of Sustainably Stylish Gifts.

Narelle Dore

Renowned for her fine and unexpected use of macramé which runs through each collection, each piece in Narelle Dore’s collection is hand crafted in her Antwerp atelier.

Jan-Jan Van Essche

There is a lovely global nomad vibe to Jan-Jan Van Essche’s collections, a sort of Buddhist minimalism, translated into a wonderfully wearable, moody men’s wear collection, totally effortless and somehow reflective in nature, and completely timeless.

Be Open Conference: Fashion and Sustainability

Sass Brown discusses her book ‘Eco Fashion’ at the Be Open Conference in Milan 2012.