Fashion Ethic Hearts Softlife at Etsy

From Daily Candy Seattle to Etsy, straight to our heart, we wanted to share the work of Softlife's Coco Howard, who can be found on Etsy. Her fantastical stuffed creations have individual personalities and many are made with recycled sweaters and whatnot, which makes her hip to the Fashionably Responsible tip.

We here at Fashion Ethic are partial to this "Cranky Cephalopod", maybe because her stripes match our tissue, or perhaps because she's described thusly:

"She is crabby, due to the crumby weather she is forced to put up with this summer in her home town, Seattle. Perhaps you can cheer her up... then again maybe not."

Hmmm...sounds like us some days. Perhaps she just needs a preview of the amazing eco-fashions we have coming in the next few weeks...enough to make anyone smile at a cloudy 60 degree August day! :)

CHECK OUT the Softlife Etsy Shop HERE

Carnegie Hall Fashion - Re!nvented

One of our favorite eco-chic designers, Ms. Nina Valenti of naturevsfuture, recently teamed up with TerraCycle to design a stunning concert gown made of...trash.

The dress was created of over 6,000 used and misprinted drink pouches and will make its public debut as world-renowned concert pianist Soyeon Lee makes her debut at Carnegie Hall February 19.

The evening's theme is "Re!nvented," featuring musical pieces that have been reused in some way, which inspired the pianist to wear a gown that would reinforce this theme.

TerraCycle; known for bottling their fertilizer in reused pop bottles; is now accepting used drink pouches like those used in Nina's dress, in an effort to help divert the four billion non-recycleable pouches that otherwise go to landfills in America each year.

Check out Nina's more day-to-day creations at Fashion Ethic - the recycled fleece dress or jacket, organic wool tunic, or the contrast sweaterjacket - all are work appropriate...if your job doesn't happen to demand an appearance at Carnegie Hall ;)