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Friday April 20th, 2012

Loomstate’s Designers Bike Ride Drunk (for the Environment!), Convinced Winona Ryder To Stop Washing Her Jeans
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Loomstate’s Designers Bike Ride Drunk (for the Environment!), Convinced Winona Ryder To Stop Washing Her Jeans

Just in time for Earth Day on Sunday, the fashion crowd went crunchy (well, as much as they could) last night at the charity concept store Treasure & Bond in Soho when Rogan Gregory and Scott MacKinlay Hahn of eco-fashion line Loomstate took over to debut their Loomstate 321 line.

This capsule line of reversible and versatile multi-colored tees, tanks and dresses fashioned from one knit, man-made fabric Tencil will appeal to the environmentally conscious, frugal and laundry-challenged alike. One of the light, mega-layered and color-blocked dresses that Rogan Gregory showed us can be worn in eight different ways.

Design partners Gregory and Hahn live and breathe by their eco-conscious beliefs–incorporating them not just in their designs but also in their daily lifestyles.

“To reduce my fossil fuel footprint, I ride my bike every day and I’m as healthy as I was 20 years ago,” Gregory explained to us. “Sometimes, it’s after midnight and I’ve drank like three beers. It’s kind of like, ‘Ah, I don’t want to get on the bike.’ But you get on the bike and you can feel good about it for so many different reasons.”

Wait, what?

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Tuesday February 16th, 2010

Tuesday August 25th, 2009

Quote of the Day

“I was just shooting in Belize and in St. Tropez and I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I just thought it was so creative, you know? He was just liberated from the conventions of fashion.” Read more →

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Monday June 8th, 2009

Fashion Is Fun

Simon & Stefano Vouch Vintage

Simon Doonan‘s one of our favorite New York fashion figures and we hardly ever turn down a chance to hear him speak. Especially when he’s talking with someone of Stefano Pilati‘s caliber. The two will sit down to discuss the launch of YSL’s “New Vintage” Collection at Barneys’ Madison Avenue flagship tonight from five to Read more →

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Thursday April 23rd, 2009

Fashion Is Fun

Free Jeans For Being Green

Remember Mavi Jeans? They’re working their way back into the denim world with their new organic line. And in honor of keeping Earth Day going year round, because it doesn’t count if you’re green for a day, they’re giving you a free pair of totally organic, totally awesome jeans. Well, one of you. Tell them Read more →

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Published at 10:49 AM

Wednesday April 22nd, 2009

Beauty

Gaga for Green

Happy Earth Day! Or should we say, “Happy day for everyone to jump on the green bandwagon and prove themselves eco-conscious?” Because there’s a slight problem with a lot of brands that call themselves green – they’re not actually. And most of the time, the ones that are truly 100% organic don’t exactly work – Read more →

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Friday September 26th, 2008

Buy, Buy, Baby

Lily Cole: Officially Green

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Monday August 18th, 2008

JC Penney Checks Itself

Whenever we’ve thought of JC Penney (which was pretty much never), we never thought “cool” – until this morning. WWD reports that the mega cheap chain is putting its green money where its green mouth is with a self-sustaining initiative to be completed by this November. JCP’s planning on harnessing solar and wind energy to Read more →

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Monday June 16th, 2008

Quote of the Day

“But in an industry that thrives on newness, what will next season’s trend be? A backlash in favour of all things artificial and plastic – a nu-syntheticism? Call us cynical, but right now fashion is at risk of being greenwashed: subject to a superficial treatment that will bleed out in the next cycle of fashion Read more →

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Thursday June 12th, 2008

First Look: Leroy & Perry Fall 2008

Lutz & Patmos’ smaller, eco-friendly line, Leroy & Perry, is returning for its second season for this Fall – and what kind of friends would we be if we didn’t let you in on the sneak peek? The collection’s small, just like the very first one Tina (Lutz) and Marcia (Patmos) designed for this Spring. Read more →

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Tuesday May 27th, 2008

Green Fashion – Maybe Just Green in Color?

Last week, we raised some hell about big companies making t-shirts that say “recycle” and “earth day” – even though the companies are major polluters, and exactly 0% of their clothing is 100% natural. Someone at the Wall Street Journal must have heard us, because their Sunday fashion story broke down which major fashion companies Read more →

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Thursday May 22nd, 2008