Green Envy

Last night I heard a news story about the Oscars that was music to my ears!

The hot topic on the “Oscar gown” circuit is James Cameron’s wife Suzy Amis-Cameron wearing a green-friendly gown!

Amis-Cameron hosted a contest called ‘Red Carpet Green Dress’ for designers to enter their concept for a beautiful gown worthy of this prestigious event, combined with environmentally friendly and sustainable fabrics.

When it comes to the idea of Green Fashion, we may think that it is all humorous recycling concepts: Wedding gowns made of white boxer-briefs, jackets made from newspaper.

But there is a world of cutting-edge material development out there that is not only for biodegradable plastics and paper-goods, but for finer, softer materials that can be incorporated in this vast world of the (sometimes wasteful and excessive!) fashion industry.

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POSTED BY Heather Talmadge ON March 5
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