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Parsons Paris and 1.618 : cast your vote for your best-loved example of creative recycling!

Throw into a room the following: 25 students from the Parsons Paris design school, a heap of unsold copies of the Herald Tribune and a handful of catalogs from the 1.618 salon (on luxury and sustainable development). Add in one highly-regarded fashion designer (e.g. Bensimon), and a pinch of good intentions from the “Chaine du [...]

Looking for some trendy eco-minded magazines? Follow us!

We are talking REAL eco women’s mags here, with proper photo shoots full of clothes that we actually do dream of wearing, a zoom-in on juicy contemporary cosmetic products (not hand-me-down recipes from Granny) and naturally some really read-worthy feature articles… Let’s make things very clear here: we are waxing lyrical about magazines filled with [...]

Guillemette: Combine Luxury and Emmaüs… Yes she can!

We discovered Guillemette through her bags, jewels, accessories and small  furniture during the « Luxury and sustainable development » exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in May, 2009. Her thing? She finds objects that have a story: she digs them out in flea markets, transforms them, and finishes them off by adding her personal touch. [...]

2011, the international year of forests: GoodPlanet, GoodBook, GoodExhibition … only GoodProjects to fight deforestation!

We hadn’t spoken about forests on our blog yet, although 2011 is precisely their year (says the United Nations). So we decided today that it was simply no longer possible not to say a few words about them! We always found it a bit strange to declare a year « the year of … ». Take Women’s Day… [...]

Interview of Sass Brown : sustainable fashion, luxury and sustainable development… the author of Eco Fashion tells you everything!

We’ve already talked about Sass Brown here, at the occasion of the publication of her book « Eco Fashion », which has become our new bedtime reading on this topic… Lucky us! We met her recently and were able to ask her our questions. A very nice and interesting chat! And here is the video, just for [...]