///GREEN REVOLUTION

During a special summer edition of Streetlab Businesscase presented 2night Hiphonest presented the new trends in Ecofashion. Here are the links and visuals.

Inspired by Cradle-to-Cradle

Refinity, Mona Ohlendorf, Oat, Nike, Christine Vriesema

New technologies

By-wire

Via Ecouterre

Artez Graduation Show

Woehoe! It’s nearly time for a very special summer edition of Streetlab Businesscase presenting: fresh ideas about eco fashion, social media and the future of green design.  Über social blogger Ikenna Azuike from Strawberry Earth and international eco fashionista Annouk Post from Hiphonest are guests for the night. Other speakers will be confirmed asap!

Come along if you want to know what ‘next level blogging’ is all about / which cutting edge designers to watch / which brands are leading the way / and why there’s a global buzz about a creative and green revolution!”

///ORGANIC POPCORN MOMENT

Found this video via Ecofashionworld.com.Definitely agree this video could create more awareness amongst teenagers.

This video is a modern-contemporary art version of the classic fairy tale “The Emperor’s new clothes”. The story has been altered in such way in order to communicate visually the environmental and social impacts of “Fast-Fashion” and introduce to the audience the endless opportunities in Sustainable Fashion. Specifically, this tale is the product of an insightful research on female teenagers’ consuming behavior in terms of fashion and can be used as an education tool for this market group.

///WALL OF FAITH

Proud to present the first faces posted on the page FACE SPACE @ WALL OF FAITH

1) Rianne de Witte: The designs of Rianne de Witte are the result of sophisticated simplicity, clear lines, feminin fit and sustainable fabrics.
Rianne de Witte is known for her sustainable way of working since 1996. From 2005 she became member of Made-by. Made-by supports fashionbrands to produce with respect for people, animal and planet. You can recocnize the made-by brands by a blue button,. Rianne de Witte opened her first eco fashionstore in 2006, Breda NL

2) Elena Simons: With a background in art, advertising and environmental activism, Elena Simons (1977) has been working as a Social Inventor for eight years. She is creative director of Wonder, a Dutch non-profit organisation that makes social action fun.

One successful art project is the visit of a group of welfare recipients to the wealthy in their mansions, bringing symbolic gifts as a way to say thank you for taxes. On another occasion a luxury department store unknowingly sold high quality goods from the trash, after Elena and friends had put these back on the shelves with real price tags.

Fun with Muslims, a political gift book, Read the rest of this entry »

///BREAKING NEWS

Picture this: President Barack Obama joyfully biking along the streets on this typically Dutch carrier bike. On his way to do some groceries and promoting this alternative way of shopping. Take a bike instead of your car!

(In this clip singer Wende Snijders on a De Fietsfabriek bike, singing this ‘Yes we can’ song. In Dutch we call this carrier bike a ‘bakfiets’, and De Fietsfabriek means: the bike factory)

The ‘b2O- bakfiets 2 Obama’ project is initiated by the owners of Dutch bike store De Fietsfabriek, Yalçin Cihangir and Dave Deutsch. Aim is to encourage Obama to improve his sustainability program.

To get publicity, an ambitious and enthusiastic documentary team is planning to make a bike tour on a special Obama ‘bakfiets’. Starting in the Turkish village Buyukcamili where owner Yalçin Cihangir was born and the factory of De Fietsfabriek is based. Biking towards Rotterdam harbor via Amsterdam, crossing the Atlantic Ocean by ship. At the USA coast, the American media circus can get crazy and follow this theatrical parade towards the White House in Washington D.C. Hopefully with a warm applause of Obama himself!

In 2004 Yalçin Cihangir (picture above) and Dave Deutsch Read the rest of this entry »