The Re:Fashion Awards celebrate the designers, brands, media and businesses that promote ethical fashion and support environmental projects. It's the first dedicated awards ceremony for ethical fashion and the party brought together a celeb-sprinkled crowd and the Who’s Who of the ethical fashion industry to drink and gossip in its honour.
More necklaces! Who can resist them--they always fit. Tanvi Kant makes her necklaces and bracelets from the threads of old Indian saris and scarves. The bright colours and metallic yarns come from unpicking discarded and unwanted Indian materials, starting with her mother's cast-offs. She then binds, whips, knots and sews the threads into loops until a form appears, adding porcelain rings as weights and contrast. Kant doesn't design the pieces beforehand, instead they are organic in development as she works with the bits of fabric. The end pieces are left unfinished so that the ...
All the fashion mag's have written about LeJu jewellery, but somehow Treehugger hasn't yet.... So here they are: great looking necklaces, bracelets, and rings made from vegetable ivory. What's that, you say--it is a seed from a palm tree found in the Amazonian rain forest. After it has been naturally dried for a long time it is just as hard as ivory and then it can be carved. So it provides an alternative to cutting down rain forests, stimulates local economies and prevents elephants from being killed for their tusks. Sounds like a winning idea all around.
With the extra plus that the jewellery is colourful, well-designed and perfect for that casual look with tee-shirts or ...
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