Red Carpet Green Dress - Oscars 2012

Eco Fashion at the 2012 Academy Awards

If you're anything like me, award season is a chance  to 'oooo', 'aaaaah' and 'what was she thinking?' over the gorgeous gowns that hit the red carpet. The 84th Academy Awards this week is exactly one of those times.

Wouldn't it be great, knowing that some of those glamorous gowns, were also green?

Through the wonderful world of twitter I recently was followed by an amazing company called Red Carpet Green Dress . I just love everything about them, I wish I had known earlier about them as I would have enjoyed the challenge of entering (creativity is always good for one's soul).

So, let me tell you a bit more about Red Carpet Green Dress..

Red Carpet Green Dress was launched in 2009 by the wife of director James Cameron, Suzy Amis Cameron. Its an annual competition where designers are challenged to create a red carpet dress made from sustainable material.

Both Suzy & James have both been dedicated to protecting the planet and its resources, and Red Carpet Green Dress was just another way to show their environmental efforts.

In 2010, Jillian Granz won the competition. Jillian created a beautiful gown made out of peace silk. 'Peace silk' you ask? Peace silk is made by allowing silk worms to complete their life cycle, instead of traditional silk where the worms are boiled for their silk. Jillian also had a no-waste policy. every bit of material was used in the garment.

Jillian's winning design 2010

In 2011, the winner of the Red carpet Green Dress competition was Samata Angel. To read about her story from her blog where she explains her whole process, click here

Samata's design 2011

 This year, the actress Missi Pyle who starred in the movie 'The Artist' (which, by the way, won best picture as well as best actor) wore a design by the 2012 winner,  Valentina Delfino. This Venezulan born, miami-based designer created the eco-friendly gown by using peace silk; recycled polyester, recycled zippers, and natural mineral die. Each pleat in the dress, was hand sewn as to not use a machine.

 

Missi Pyle in her eco-friendly gown at the 2012 Academy Awards

Isn't it wonderful knowing that such a beautiful gown that is eco-friendly while still stunning could be made?

I hope to see more and more of these Glam and Green dresses on the red carpet soon!

Let me know what you think of these green dresses, I would love to hear from you!

xXx

The Glam Green Girl

ps: if you enjoyed reading about these eco-friendly designs, you might enjoy this eco-fashion-green-shows article

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Eco Fashion, The Green Shows

The Green Shows, New York's Eco Fashion Week 

Recently, New York prepared for fashion week. But this wasn't the usual fashion week, it was all about Eco-Fashion.

It has been described as a “premiere fashion event exclusively committed to eco-friendly, ethically sound, fair trade fashion in New York City,”

Image credit: http://www.ecosalon.com/

The Green Shows were a hit at New York Fashion Week 2012, shows were packed, a huge achievement for the sustainable fashion movement.

Designers have a certain criteria to abide by in order for their designs to be accepted as sustainable, they have to incorporate some of the following:

Fair Trade
Organic Materials
Recycled MaterialsVegan/Animal Free
 Ethically Produced
    Ethically Produced Wool

Natural Dyes
 Carbon Footprint Conscious

Designers such as United Bamboo, Bamboo by United Bamboo, Study NY by Tara St. James, H. Fredriksson, Luis Valenzuela, The Battalion, Anja, and Artists & Revolutionaries all created beautiful pieces that were both Glam and Green

image credit: http://www.ecosalon.com/

More about The Green Shows? "The Green Shows is building the premier marketing and consultative services company dedicated to the future of ethical and sustainable fashion retailing. The Company is advising and partnering with leading specialty retailers and lifestyle fashion brands to advance the design and merchandising of retail destinations to service this next-generation of fashion shoppers. Now in its fourth year of operation, the Company has identified a sizable target market of well educated, affluent shoppers who want to buy beautifully designed fashion, produced sustainably, crafted with lasting value, leaving minimal waste". Interested and want to know even more, click here

Keep a look out for more posts on some great Glam and Green fashion, as well as some great tips :)

The Glam Green Girl

xXx

Ps: email ( theggg@mweb.co.za ) if you have a green fashion company, I would to love to feature you on my blog.

credit: http://www.thegreenshow.com/ & http://www.ecosalon.com/ 

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Glam and Green at the J&B Met 2012

Glam and Green at the J&B Met 2012

On Saturday the 28th of January 2012, South Africa's finest headed to the Kenilworth Race Course in Cape Town to strut their stuff.

I only found out that I was a attending 2 hours before I arrived, so had to quickly grab something out of my closet, luckily I'm a glamazon so there was no need to stress ;)

The theme for this year was 'Made Different' and boy-oh-boy did some people take that to the extreme..

I was however, so delighted to see people in Glam and Green outfits ©

A little accident during the December holiday fun left me camera-less so I couldn't take photos of the awesome outfits, but I managed to find some on Thunda and through people who emailed me

images I found on Thunda, if this is you, let me know :)

I saw a girl rush past me in a dress that looked similar to this, SO Glam & Green!

Michael Williams & his friends in their Glam & Green outfits-awesome!

 

Hope you all feel a bit inspired fro the next time you have to dress up for an event

xXx

The Glam Green Girl

ps: were you at the the J&B Met? did you wear a Green and Glam outfit? email me theggg@mweb.co.za and I'll make sure to feature you

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