Sustainable fashion showrooms and platforms are conquering the fashion weeks in Europe. After the recent launch of Ethical Fashion Show Berlin and MINT in Amsterdam, a presence of sustainable fashion in Copenhagen seems to be a logical development. From 2nd until 4th February the creative community ArtRebels will organize a showroom at Gallery in Copenhagen as part of…
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Berlin Fashion Week – Green Highlights 2012
The Berlin Fashion Week has started! Don’t forget your rubber boots and umbrellas this time, they might be a necessary part of your outfit… In our Berlin Fashion Week Eco Guide we have listed all brands and events at the Berlin Fashion Week for you. Off course we are excited to check out the debuting Ethical…
German discounters under pressure
A few days ago, the Clean Clothes Campaign published a report, stating that they have found strong violations of working rights by the textile producers for the German discounters Lidl, Aldi and Kik. The campaign had a strong respond in the German press, with coverage in media such as ARD, Spiegel, Sueddeutsche and Handelsblatt. After…
Esther Perbandt AW2012 collection
Next week Esther Perbandt will present her Autumn/Winter Collection 2012 at Capsule Berlin. What you can look forward to is a collection kept completely in black with recyclable chains and deconstructed tartan that reminds of elegant aesthetics in old Hitchcock movies. 60 % of the fabrics used for the sample collection are sustainable and with…
Toast & Jam Vintage Fashion Fair
During Berlin Fashion Week, we won’t only look at new creations but can also visit a fabulous vintage market that will take place right opposite the Bread & Butter, which is held in the buildings of the old Flughafen Tempelhof again. Toast & Jam, the felicitous name of the three-day Vintage Fashion fair, will happen…
The Berlin Fashion Week Eco Guide
About ten days to go, and then it’s Berlin Fashion Week again… We recommend you bring your walking shoes this time, as it seems there will be more fairs than ever and the green brands are spread on many of them. Consider it a challenge to catch as many venues as possible.. We have counted…
Making the Invisible Visible
Together with the German Street art collective Mentalgassi and the advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy, Amnesty International initiated a series of street art actions in several European cities as part of their ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ campaign. Posters of six individuals who became victims of human rights abuse were cut in thin stripes and taped…
To a prosperous new year
Dear Readers We wish you all a Mrry Christmas and a good start into the year 2012. We want to say thank you for an exciting year with a lot of changes and developments, thanks for your support and for working towards the same goal – a more sustainable world. We hope to see you…
German Fashion Kitchen features Esther Perbandt
Which special meals do German fashion designers like to prepare at home? That was the question the authors from the Blogzine Nahtlos asked themselves and there it was – the idea for a unique cookbook. In German Fashion Kitchen 55 designers reveal their kitchen secrets, among them also Esther Perbandt with her favourite recipe, fillet…
Utilité – a Story about Passion and Patience
Utilité by Ellen Korth is no standard Do-It-Yourself book. Although we haven’t seen it in real life yet, the video presentation already made us love it. Ellen Korth visited 40 women and men at home and documented how passionate they knitted, crocheted or weaved. Utilité, which became more of an object than a book, is…