form & fauna

*giveaway is closed!!*

Today starts another fabulous Olio United Trunk Show – this time featuring sustainable & locally made pieces from Portland designers Emily Katz & Sword and Fern, as well as San Francisco shoe designer Form & Fauna and New York designer Bahar Shapar.

Everything in the trunk show is marked down this week ONLY (be sure to check back here everyday; I’ll be featuring my favorite piece from each collection the rest of this week) – and I’m so excited to that Green Grechen has teamed up with Olio United for an exciting giveaway of a trunk show piece from Emily Baker’s jewelry recycled/sustainable line, Sword & Fern:

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All you have to do to enter to win this beautiful necklace is RT this post using the tweet button at the end of the post, or copy & paste the following message on twitter:

RT @greedygrechen: Portland, SF & NYC eco-friendly designers trunk show at Olio United + sword & fern necklace giveaway! http://bit.ly/zMmQa

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About the Trunk Show Designers:

Bahar Shahpar, New York City: Bahar Shahpar’s luxurious and sustainable womenswear line is smart, playful, and feminine- much like her customer. Her collection is a harmonious display of bold colors and prints, beautiful craftsmanship and design, and fine, earth-friendly fabrics.

Form and Fauna, San Francisco: Form and Fauna creates beautiful shoes from some of the highest quality sustainable materials, including organic cotton and hemp fabric, Italian synthetics, and second generation scrap wood. The collection is all handcrafted by artisans in the U.S.

Emily Katz, Portland: Emily Katz’ current eco-collection is an exhibition of simple, neutral colors and sexy, yet classy silhouettes. Her signature pieces include wrap dresses and oversized cowl neck tunic tops- staple pieces for the modern closet.

Sword and Fern, Portland: Inspired by everything from organic geometry and modern sculpture to the abundance of Pacific Northwest passages and forests, self-taught designer Emily Baker has created an eco-friendly collection of earrings and necklaces using cast off car parts, recycled glass, and found ephemera. The result is a classically futuristic aesthetic of elegant and clever sustainability.

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“Embodying” an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle

by grechen on October 30, 2008 | SUBSCRIBE | TWITTER | FACEBOOK |

Honestly with all the fabulous eco-friendly boutiques online and off, there’s no excuse for NOT adapting your wardrobe to your earth-friendly lifestyle. That of course, does not mean throwing everything out and starting over (please don’t). It does mean that if you have anything that needs to be replaced, you should consider looking for choices in alternative fabrics like Organic Cotton, Soy, Tencel, Hemp, and Bamboo, which are getting easier to find.

A brand new entry to online eco-fashion, embodies, joins the ranks of so many other boutiques dedicated to sustainable design and environmentally-friendly practices. Embodies selects the designers they work with only after asking a series of questions like:

What fabrics are used in the clothing? Are they organic, sustainable, recycled or reclaimed? If so how?
Where are the items manufactured? Under what conditions?
What types of dyes are used in the clothing?

…the same questions I ask before buying…

Most of embodies designers are well known in the world of eco-fashion: Bahar Shapar, Ecoganik, Modaspia, Amenity, Stewart + Brown, and Organic by John Patrick, but you may not know of vegan shoe designer Form & Fauna, Tinc’s GORGEOUS hemp/bamboo smocks, or Love Heals jewelry -

Tinc Hemp/Bamboo Top

Tinc Hemp/Bamboo Top

Form & Fauna

Form & Fauna

Love Heals Jewelry

Love Heals Jewelry

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