Our perennially eco-chic friends at Ekovaruhuset NY turned us onto these divinely fabulous eco-leather shoes from PJUX. Beautifully crafted in Spain in a small artisan factory, PJUX collections are the result of a Copenhagen-based designer dream team and traditional Spanish leather craftsmanship and artistry. Environmentally responsible, fair trade, and fashioned for true longevity, sustainable style really does not get any better than this. Shoes should be worn, resoled, and passed on to the next generation, in my opinion, and with genuine quality like PJUX, who would want to search any further for a lasting style investment?

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It is one thing to be concerned about a ‘bad hair day’, but imagine wearing smart fashion that alerts you to the threat of a stinky ‘bad air day’. Stephanie Sandstrom’s EPA Dress, currently on view in the San Francisco Exploratorium’s 2nd Skin Exhibition responds to bad air – and that’s not all, it cleverly creates the wrinkles to prove it! Looking crumpled and tired may no longer be an indicator of a late night out, but rather an intelligent way of interpreting your surroundings as well as detecting lurking health hazards. And if that’s not enough to get you totally charged up, consider the Piezing motion-powered dress that redefines future-forward fashion with femme-bot sex appeal.

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There is a lot to be thankful for this Mothers Day, and we are excited to celebrate a day dedicated to nurturing both the fabric of families as well as the health of the planet. It is also a time for simply being together and remembering those who we think are special in our lives and have helped to shape who we are as thinkers, dreamers, and designers of the future.

With this in mind, we wanted to highlight a great mother/daughter tale that I came across while attending the D&A show here in NYC. Anne Novotny of Frei Designs is a talented and innovative star on the Chicago eco fashion scene, and I was inspired to learn about how her views on sustainability and fashion did not come from design school or eco study exclusively, but from her own mother who taught her about first-rate quality, true integrity, and digging in locally to make a lasting difference. This Mother’s Day we wanted to take a closer look at why Frei Designs typifies the best of the future in green fashion and the connection that comes from mothers who pass along their wisdom and guidance in order to make the world a sweeter place for all.

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Chic organic designs coupled with cheap Target-style prices? Did you ever think that this was possible? It is now that the king of cheap-chic, Target, has teamed up with celeb eco fashion designer Rogan (of Loomstate and Edun), to produce a new line of 100% organic clothes that are as easy on the wallet as they are on the eye. With cute safari-inspired prints, and prices starting as low as $16.99 for tops, we don’t want to hear any more bitching and moaning about how expensive eco fashion is…Now you have no excuse not to totally greenify your wardrobe.

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GREETINGS FROM DESIGNERS & AGENTS!

For the past couple days the NY Inhabitat team has been camping out in the eco-friendly ‘Green Room’ at Designers & Agents, the premiere fashion tradeshow in New York City. Being the fans of eco fashion that we are, Inhabitat teamed up with Designers & Agents this year to help curate the furniture and decor of the ‘Green Room’ - a gallery space dedicated to environmental design, showcasing eco fashion collections as well as green furniture, books and products. The Designers & Agents show is only going on for one more day, so if you are interested in checking out the hottest emerging eco-fashion and design, be sure to stop by. If you can’t make it, be sure to check out our live coverage of the show here on Inhabitat, and our ever expanding gallery of photos from the event >

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When we launched our Inhabitat T-shirt Design Competition last spring, we had no idea we would get so many entries or generate such interest from our readers. If you followed the design competition, you may remember the popular root / lungs design submitted by Jonathan Sabutis, which inspired readers with its symbolic design portraying trees as the lungs of the earth, and a catchy tagline “I am the root of the solution”. Despite the fact that this design took second prize in our reader poll, it seemed to be hands-down the most popular design with Inhabitat readers, according to comments and feedback.

Well, for all of you who loved that design — we are happy to announce that we now have Inhabitat Root T-shirts available for sale from Inhabitat. Printed in light green water-based ink on soft organic cotton American Apparel T-shirts, our newest Inhabitat T-shirts are as environmentally friendly as a T-shirt can get, and stylishly subtle.

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A picture is (often) worth more than a thousand words, and though we could talk about sustainable style ad infinitum here at Inhabitat, there are occasional examples of eco-chic fashion collections that really speak for themselves. Beau Soleil, designed by Anne Salvatore Epstein, is a feminine and sexy assortment of sumptuous dresses that are draped out of the finest sustainable fabrics with the spirit of the modern, forward-thinking woman in mind. With Mother’s Day just around the corner, we wanted to take a peak at Beau Soleil’s Spring 2008 collection in order to celebrate the beauty of women everywhere as well as gorgeous, spring-infused green fashion.

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Designers & Agents, the premiere fashion tradeshow kicks off THIS MORNING in New York. Inhabitat has teamed up with Designers & Agents this year to help curate the ‘Green Room’ - a gallery space dedicated to environmental design, showcasing eco fashion collections as well as green furniture, books and products. We have enlisted Inhabitat’s favorite green artist Edina Tokodi to create a site-specific ‘living’ installation out of moss and INKE’s recycled wallpaper cutouts (see above), as well as putting together a gorgeous showcase of green furniture from our favorite eco furniture designers such as Uhuru, Molo, and Daniel Michalik Inhabitat’s Sustainable Style team of Abigail Doan and Jill Fehrenbacher will be in the Green Room each day to offer up sustainable design tips for D&A attendees.

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Calling all green fashionistas!
The Designers & Agents international fashion showcase kicks off THIS WEEKEND (May 4th-6th) here in NYC! Inhabitat is partnering with Designers & Agents this year, and the Sustainable Style team of Abigail Doan and Jill Fehrenbacher will be on site each day to offer up green fashion ideas and sustainable design tips for D&A attendees. As the exclusive media sponsor and curator of D&A’s Green Room, Inhabitat is looking forward to a weekend filled with future-forward fashion and gorgeous eco-design from the best of this year’s talented designer and agent line-up!

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For those of you who think that eco-fashion equals hemp sandals and lots of beige hippy dresses - think again, fashion folks. Inhabitat has been preaching the good green design gospel for years now, trying to spread the word that green fashion can be daring, hip, and sexy as well as sustainably responsible. Our recent reports from the New York fashion event Project Earth Day demonstrate, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that sustainable style is not only sexy but pushing the boundaries of just how much things are heating up on the green stage.

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We love our green fashion here at Inhabitat, but ‘green gadget couture’ is something for us to really get charged up about! This white (hot) tiled frock (think Paco Rabanne circa mid-1960’s) is the quintessential Day-For-Night eco-fashion number, as it passively soaks up the sun’s rays during the daytime so that you can be a flashy fashion power pack at night. Showcased at Siggraph some time ago, we thought that we would resuscitate this eco-chic modular dress for another groovy go around on the sustainable style circuit.

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High-end watchmaker Urwerk is bringing new meaning to the term “small wind” by replacing the traditional self-winding mechanism in their UR-202 watch with miniature wind turbines. While this small scale turbine installation isn’t solving any energy crisis, it is a step towards better design, and a wind-driven move that extends the life of this distinctive timepiece. While we’ve seen wind turbine technology in many forms, from large, powerful designs that can power neighborhoods, to small hand-held devices that can charge your mobile gadgets, we can’t recall any innovation that used wind power in such a small (yet significant) detail.

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Australian designer Craig Arnold has captured the beauty of contemporary design and sustainability with his latest bracelet collection, re:vision. Made from discarded camera parts, these bracelets are a must have accessory for photographers and eco-accessory fans alike. We are of course big proponents of recycling obsolete gadgets into new fashion statements, but Arnold’s fresh take on this eco-fashion principle is a great new idea, one from which we can all draw inspiration.

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New York-based Dynomighty Design has perfected a long-lasting way to keep your currency in order. Their fun, postal packaging-inspired wallets are made from a single sheet of Tyvek, making them seamless, nearly impenetrable and super durable. Constructed with 25% post consumer content and 100% recyclable materials, Dynomighty wallets are a lightweight solution to on-the-go billfold wear and tear. While the wallets will become comfortably worn-in, the durable Tyvek material won’t break!

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The annual Project Earth Day Student Fashion Competition was held this past Thursday as part of the Project Earth Day fashion event, and featured an impressive mix of young designers from schools such as Parsons, Pratt Institute, Colorado State and Savannah College of Art & Design. Given that many of these students are interning with both eco-label designers as well as conventional fashion houses, we are optimistic that the future of sustainable style looks impressively strong as the next generation of students coming out of design programs seems geared up to truly make a difference in an industry and a commercial sector that is increasingly becoming aware of the importance of going green for good!

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