Fashion, Evolved

Today is Earth Day, and I wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that while we gear up our efforts this week to recycle, shop wisely, and conserve our personal/collective resources…one day a year is simply not enough.

Now!  What’s going on in the world of Eco-Fashion for Earth Day 2009!?  Check this out:

1.  Sara Seumae, founder of SPUN is giving away an organic cotton beater tank each hour today via Twitter.  She’ll be asking questions and the first people to respond will win!  Follower her at: @choosespun

2.  Fashion Ethic is offering 30% off everything in the store (including sale!) for purchases over $35.  Use the checkout code:  EVERYDAY

3.  Victoria Everman is giving away a set of the “Little Green Book” series to a random commentator on her site.  Leave a comment telling her the strangest eco-advice you’ve ever received and you’re entered!

4.  Shop Coclico for haute eco-shoes and get 20% off today!  Use the coupon code:  EarthDay

5.  Earthly Affair is giving away an amazing prize package that includes a $215 gift certificate toward their environmentally friendly printed invitations, a copy of the book “Green Weddings”, and more!  There’s a couple ways to enter…so check out the blog post.

6.  Find something sustainable to wear this spring:  30% OFF everything today only with code “EarthDay30″ at Gretchen & Grace Greenwear.

7.  Three Stone Steps is having earth/mother’s day sale featuring 20% off, sale items included, on orders over $50. Coupon Code:  gretchen0509.  Treat yourself to one of these green treasures to celebrate the planet!

8.  My pal Green Grechen also has a list of some great Earth Day Eco Fashion Deals.  Check out HER post!

9.  20% off all orders this week at Mountains of the Moon (including sale items), with 20% of the profits from all orders going to American Forests.  For every dollar we donate, they will plant a tree!  (More info at Mountains of the Moon Newsletter).

Got anything to add?  Send me an email to:  the_q@inbox.com and I’ll add it today!

Ok, you’re going to just LOVE this!

Imagine a website where you get to see a fabulous new eco-luxe product each day from up-and-coming designers and companies.  Now, imagine that you have a chance to win that same fabulous eco-luxe product each day.  But wait!  It gets better!  You also get to participate in an online dialogue with some of the smartest, wittiest, and hippest people on the internets.

The Bright Side Project is all this and more.  Each day this ambitious blog features a new green product–everything from lip gloss to hats–as a way to get these cool, often independent designers some exposure.  As part of the fun, the designers pose a single question of their choice (and they can get pretty creative) which you must answer in a comment to be entered to win their product.

This gives readers a chance to participate in some really stimulating discussion, much of which is about positive, uplifting topics:

The Bright Side Project is here to bring you a little metaphorical sunshine every day, to help you stop for a second and remember life is (still) beautiful and there is goodness in the world.

I do hope you play along each day, as your answers make my days brighter and we all need a little reminder to look on the bright side…

I don’t know about you, but The Bright Side Project will now be a regular stop on my daily surf route.

Check out the blog post I wrote over at Eco-Chick.com on Vogue India’s exploitation of impoverished Indians for their “fashion” layout.

Fashion is Art.

And thanks to Mark Schwartz, Art is now Fashion.

Schwartz is a shoe designer of over 20 years who credits his foray into the world of high art to the mentoring of Andy Warhol, with whom Schwartz spent time working during the 1980′s.

For more than 20 years, Schwartz has been designing shoes for the biggest names in the fashion industry, including Balenciaga, Calvin Klein, Hermes, and Christian Lacroix.

At the same time, he’s been delighting art lovers with his whimsical art based entirely on women’s shoes.

Take a tour of his website and check out his work, both past and present.  Be sure to take a look at the “Rooms” link which has some beautiful photos of the art as part of some contemporary decor.

Thanks to my friend Holly for this joke…

Jennifer’s wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could dampen her excitement — not even her parents’ nasty divorce.. Her mother had found the PERFECT dress to wear and would be the best dressed mother-of-the-bride ever! A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father’s new young wife had bought the exact same dress! Jennifer asked her to exchange it, but she re fused. ‘Absolutely not. I look like a million bucks in this dress, and I’m wearing it,’ she replied. Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, ‘Never mind sweetheart. I’ll get another dress. After all it’s your special day.’ A few days later, they went shopping and did find another gorgeous dress. When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, ‘Aren’t you going to return the other dress? You really don’t have another occasion where you could wear it.’ Her mother just smiled and replied, ‘Of course I do, dear. I’m wearing it to the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding.