Green Fashion Archive

Awesome Green Idea: Create Form-Fitted, Design-Forward Organic Cotton Underwear for Men and Women

Going green can be a very personal journey. At times, it can also be pretty lonely when you look around and wonder why it’s taking so long for the rest of the world to catch on and catch up. So it’s important to have a lot of support. And that’s why I love PACT organic [...]
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Cute Winter Boots for Women – Warm, Waterproof & Eco
Cute Winter Boots for Women – Warm, Waterproof & Eco

Whether you’re tending the garden in NoCal, stomping Manhattan’s sidewalks, or meeting friends after a long day on the slopes, you’ll want to stay warm, dry, and comfortable. Oh yeah, and they better be the cutest winter boots we women have ever seen too. Rest assured, I have you covered in top eco style. Our [...]
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Best Mens Fleece Jackets and Tops for Fashionable Performancewear
Best Mens Fleece Jackets and Tops for Fashionable Performancewear

Polar fleece — aka microfleece, aka micrafleece aka fleece — is an inherently eco-friendly fiber. Made from same material as Tupperware and bottle caps, fleece becomes fleece when the material, PET (polyethylene terephthalate), is heated up and manipulated. Polyester is also made from PET. But unlike polyester, fleece is plush, breathable, and uber warm. Here [...]
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Introducing Ecouterre: A new eco-fashion destination
Introducing Ecouterre: A new eco-fashion destination

I want to congratulate my friend Jill Fehrenbacher and her new team for the launch of Ecouterre, a website dedicated to covering the fast evolving world of eco-fashion. Jill founded the green design blog Inhabitat, right about the time I launched LazyEnvironmentalist.com, so we’ve been tracking each other’s progress for a while. When I had [...]
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Designer Maternity Dresses for the Green Mother-to-be
Designer Maternity Dresses for the Green Mother-to-be

Sure, it was exciting (in an Alien-eqsue sort of way) to be growing another human being inside of me, but I found the most fascinating part of being pregnant to be my ever-morphing figure. As a woman who was always light on curves, I never quite tired of greeting that increasingly bodacious woman in the [...]
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Designer Women’s Jeans – Skinny to Bootcut, Boyfriend to Wide Leg – Organic Cotton
Designer Women’s Jeans – Skinny to Bootcut, Boyfriend to Wide Leg – Organic Cotton

Let’s make this clear; shopping for jeans can be one tough job. Not all pairs look equally flattering on different types of bodies. But trust, the right pair is out there for every shape. Here’s a list of the best eco-friendly denim for every shape. Hello bootcut; the good lord’s gift to women of all [...]
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Under Armour Recycled Athletic Clothing: Wear What The Pros Wear
Under Armour Recycled Athletic Clothing: Wear What The Pros Wear

These are exciting times for the green movement. High-quality green products are surfacing at some of the largest and most mainstream retail stores in the country. Whether it’s the Brammo Enertia Electric Motorcycle available at Best Buy, the Honeywell Wind Turbine soon to be available at Ace Hardware this fall, or the wide selection of [...]
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Mary Jane Shoes for your Inner Eco-Fashionista

Mary Jane shoes are a classic, comfortable shoe traditionally worn by younger girls in formal occasions (think black patent leather) and older women for a more casual look. The style is quite simple; a single strap – normally a buckle strap — over the instep or ankle and a rounded toe box. These five examples [...]
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Topo Ranch: Cowboy Shirts in Organic Cotton

Last year while searching for eco-friendly men’s clothing to wear on my television show, I fortuitously stumbled into Topo Ranch’s storefront on Abbot Kinney BLVD in Venice, CA. At the time, I was trying to cultivate a fashion look for the show that we had dubbed “Urbiana Jones.” You know what I mean, Urbiana Jones [...]
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Eco-Fashion Spotlight on Skirts: Metallic to Cotton and Pencil to Tulip

As the weather changes, the best investment piece a woman can have is a versatile skirt. In warmer weather, it keeps the bottom half of your body cool (both temperature and style-wise) then it easily transitions to a smart fall piece when worn with print or solid tights. A few no-nos to keep in mind [...]
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