Top 25 Eco Chic Styles - Organic Beauty & Fashion (SUPER GALLERY)

If you think being eco-friendly means you have to dress in Birkenstocks and wear boring, beige organic cottons and hemp, you have been severey misinformed.

The new movement being called Eco-Chic is sweeping over the fashion and beauty industry, and it really has nothing to do with dressing like the stereotypical granola hippies.

Don’t believe me? Have a look at the following stunning organic designs, from all natural beauty products to beautiful apparel, shoes, bags and entire fashion collections, including underwear.

The cluster list kicks off with Recycled Fashion, a huge movement in the Eco-Chic category.

Top 13 Recycled Fashions (SUPER GALLERY)

(TREND HUNTER) A huge wave in recycled fashions has taken over the clothing industry, the green movement inspiring environmentally aware designers to get creative in eco-friendly ways. The trick is keeping the fashion wearable. Wearing tires, candy wrappers, recycled billboard ads, juice boxes or audio cassette ta… [More]

Eco Chic Geek - 5 Recycled Laptop Bag Designs (GALLERY)

(TREND HUNTER) Laptops are known to be a not so green product. The process of manufacturing PC electronic components takes its toll on mother earth, so the least we can do is choose an environment-friendly laptop bag. Designers have been coming up with creative and beautiful eco designs, here we present you with … [More]

Organic Fashion

Green Fashion LA - EcoNouveau EcoLifestyle (GALLERY)

As a precursor to the green collections to be showcased at Los Angeles Fashion Week, ecofashionistas are being invited to “Celebrate the emergence of EcoNouveau LA’s definitive EcoLifestyle experience.” The event, which runs this Saturday, will be a sneak preview of what to expect when the official … [More]

Social Fashion - armedangels presents eco+ethical+charity+hot apparel

A start-up fashion label by the name of armedangels establishes a new level of ethics and customer integration, which they call Social Fashion. Within their production they strongly reject child-labour, use organic cotton only and the whole process is fair-trade certified. From each sold item 3,33Eu… [More]

Eco Chic - Loyale Spring 2008 Bamboo Collection (GALLERY)

Trend Hunter recently featured the eco-friendly Aussiebum Bamboo underwear, one of the first brands to utilize bamboo in its products, and it seems that bamboo is going to be featured in more and more environment friendly fashion lines. The Spring 2008 Collection from fashion house Loyale Clothing… [More]

Eco Rock & Roll Fashion with Chopper Couture (GALLERY)

Eco Rock & Roll Fashion with Chopper Couture! Forget the grainy hemp T-shirts and grunge of hippie wear typically associated with organic clothes for the granola set! Think luxuriously soft bamboo tops and hoodies, cropped or long bodied tanks and tees in eco-friendly Lyocell with edgy art-driven… [More]

Natural Organic Clothing - Planet Earth Green Label

Planet Earth - Green Label ‘natural, organic and sustainable’ is a clothing line that is made of hemp, organic cotton, ramie, recycled polyester, linen, and wool. Based in Carlsbad, California their target market is guys in the surf, skate and snowboard scene, promoting consumers to help support the… [More]

Recycled Couture - Eco Chic Fashion Show in Jakarta (GALLERY)

We’ve seen so many recycled fashions on Trend Hunter, but it’s a very good thing that we love to feature. The fact that eco-chic has now been picked up by the masses is fantastic and shows our society’s commitment to the environment. It also goes to prove that recycled doesn’t equate to trashy. Th… [More]

Medieval Fashion - Stella McCartney A/W 2008 (VIDEO)

Good Sir, may you look to you for some fashion inspiration? It seems Stella McCartney sought inspiration from her Fall 2008 collection from King Arthur’s days. The medieval inspiration was clear at Paris Fashion Week as the young designer sent models down her runway that looked ready to jump on ho… [More]

Beautiful Organic Tweeds - Anja Hynynen’s Magic (GALLERY)

Aren’t these creations pretty? It would make you feel so elegant to be dressed in these lovely tweeds. Anjah Hynynen is among a league of women who are designing and making clothes organically. She spent time on a farm in Scotland to weave the wool and sew the fabric. It must be magical to work with… [More]

Underwear

Eco Underwear (Update) - Aussiebum Bamboo Boxers (VIDEO)

Trend Hunter has covered a number of Aussiebum underwear innovations. Their asset-enhancing wonderjock line is considered the wonderbra of men’s underwear. Now, aussiebum has launched an environment-friendly collection made out of 100% sustainable Bamboo that is 100% biodegradable. The collection b… [More]

Soy Underwear - 2Xist Gets Organic

2Xist is an underwear producer that is gaining a solid reputation little by little thanks mainly to its simple designs, with the highest quality and comfortability. 2xist has recently released Soy Collection, a collection that features several designs of briefs and a t-shirt made with a 95% soy-bas… [More]

Essence: Vitamin Enriched Underwear from Aussiebum

”Aussiebum, an Australian underwear company, has just introduced their newest line of underwear, called Essence. The underwear is made from microfibre, which is treated with acerola (a fruit high in vitamin c and antioxidents) and other “organic substances.” These ingredients remain active for 15 wa… [More]

Denim

Green Jeans - Levi’s Eco Jeans Ads (GALLERY)

These new ads for Levi’s Eco Jeans truely and creatively reflect the product’s green spirit. The Eco line is made of 100% organic cotton under emission-free processes; and includes jackets, shirts and ofcourse jeans. The ads are photographed by Simon Harsent. Notorious green-warrior Rogan Gregory, … [More]

Organic Denim - Tierra Del Forte’s Green Jeans

Organic Denim?  Tierra Del Forte has launched a line of luxurious green jeans made from 100% organically grown cotton (no pesticides).  Her site describes that the jeans are, “designed for the eco-chic woman who is transforming the face of fashion.” Tierra Del Forte describes, “I wanted to achieve … [More]

Shoes

Eco Friendly Golf Shoes - Enviro Brings Green to the Green

These stylish shoes are actually the world’s first eco-friendly shoes intended for golf, allowing the wearer to wear green on the green. The Enviro shoes are made from 99% environmentally sustainable materials and look very sophisticated too. They use chrome-free, organic vegetable-tanned leathers… [More]

Organic Sneakers in Amsterdam - Veja Collection By Christine Phung (GALLERY)

Trend Hunter covered the launch of Veja in 2006, the first organic sneakers made out from organic cotton from Brazil, natural latex from the Amazon Forest and ecological leather. From that time, an enormous number of brands have followed the lead of ecology to sell more; but Veja has kept true to it… [More]

Organic Shoes by Veja (GALLERY)

Veja Sneakers are so cool! Materials used are organic cotton produced by a cooperative of small Brazilian producers and rubber from wild Amazon Hevea trees. It was inspired by Brazilian volley shoes from the 1970s. According to Veja the fair trade premium paid to the producers aims at financing con… [More]

Bags

Fashionably Green - Alternatives To The Sold-Out “I’m Not A Plastic Bag” Tote (GALLERY)

OK, so you couldn’t get your manicured fingers on a “I’m not a plastic bag” tote, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have an eco-friendly, fashionable shopping bag. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out the links below.) Designers were quick to come up with their own range after the pop… [More]

Lotta Jansdotter Klara Totes (GALLERY)

Thise cute cotton bags were designed by Lotta Jansdotter, a Swedish born designer who now works out of New York.  You can puchase a bag via Design Public for $76. More about Lotta from Design Public: “Lotta has both a deep appreciation for nature’s limitless beauty and a love for modern urban style… [More]

Beauty

Breast Milk Soap - DIY Beauty Products

While the thought of breast milk cheese made me gag, I can handle the thought of using breast milk soap… although if faced with a choice, I’d still take my regular Dove bar. The organic cleansing bars are made from human breast milk and said to have beautifying properties. While I think it’s okay… [More]

Food Shaped Soap For Chefs - Bathropolitan Soap Bars (GALLERY)

I would love to recommend these creations for chefs, home cooks, and fabulous gift givers. Bathropolitan New York City Soap Crafters was inspired by my brother, who has been a chef in some of the top eateries in Los Angles and often complains about cooking odors and grease on his hands. His frustra… [More]

Greening New York Fashion Week - Aveda’s Eco Efforts (GALLERY)

Beauty company Aveda challenged designers to join their eco initiative during fashion week. They asked participating fashion designers to give out recycled gift cards, offer New York City tap water instead of bottled water, eliminate the use of fur in shows and in stores as well as offer organic, lo… [More]

Organic Beauty Products - Stella McCartney Launches CARE

Stella McCartney has just released a beauty line named Care. It is a 100% organic and zero percent petrochemicals or silicones.  It is obvious that this new beauty range will grow in popularity and demand in very short time, not only because the creator is the acclaimed and trendy Stella McCartney, … [More]

Wild Photos for Green Products - Kate Hudson for WildAid (GALLERY)

Kate Hudson is widely known for her natural ways, from her boho style of dressing to the environmental causes she supports. Most recently she’s supported WildAid in a project which saw her team with her long time hair stylist, David Babaii, to launch an eco-friendly haircare line. Hudson will don… [More]

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