Founded in October 2010 by three young designers from Nantes, the Ki ET LA Brand is specialized in children fashion and more particularly in sunglasses for the all small ones.
Wellbeing, fashion and protection of your little tots, this is their leitmotiv! They designed and developed a whole coloured and full of life collection, for babies and children, from 0 to 4 years. Because much more than one simple fashion accessory, playful and coloured, it acts above all of a true health product!
For its very first spring edition, the ethical fashion fair, Ethical Fashion Show Paris, which promotes trendy green designers, was held in Espace Pierre Cardin, in the heart of the Parisian Fashion Week and the Fairs of second period.
We discovered there with delight, young people and pretty labels which show that even more each day ethical fashion means finally just and only Fashion!
The end of the year quickly arrives now and we have concocted just for you some crusty ideas to put under your Christmas tree, at a reasonable price obviously during these times of crisis… There are pretty ethical fashion smart fashion accessories but of course eco-friendly and small deco items as well. Beautiful discoveries and very favorite designers from here and besides…
You all know origami : This is the paper folding art. Many people think this technique comes from Japan when in reality origami was born in China in the 6th century.
« Origami » can make you think about paper hens and cranes. But for a few years, this ancestral know-how made its entrance into the fashion world. Clothes, bags, jewellery : Origami is everywhere !
Foldings can be beautiful, ingenious, and even impressive. This is what you are going to discover today.
Last week we went to Ethical Fashion Show in Carrousel du Louvre and we discovered beautiful brands…
First of all, we noticed a revival of new designers with a bigger part for Asia : Tajikistan, Kirghiz Republic (Haft Paikar), Japan (Breezy Blue and Kimono clothes by Kazulo), Ceylon with the young Deneth who works flowery cotton by painting a funny eye on colourful and easy to wear clothes…
Our main discovery is Movana Chen : she transforms the favourite books of people that she meets by chance and she cuts them into strips then she knits the strips ! An amazing job so poetic…
Africa was also well represented : sharp cuts of François I who uses organic cotton produced in Burkina Faso for an urban and smart fashion, Ndomo and its beautiful fabrics with natural colours with stoles, blankets and cushions… and the remarkable brand Kondakis from Kenya with its couture dresses made made with light parachute fabrics.
Our very favourite of July, it’s Zen Ethic on Ethical Trade Shop : a family business, with François in charge…
First of all, we should note that the brand act in total respect with his artisans in India : Zen Ethic did not wait the fashion to become equal and responsible. Since 1997, it makes produce in India a whole set of fashion accessories, of woman and children ready-to-wear clothing, and also decoration items and fabric coupons.
India and its enchantments of colours are here : bags, plain or colourful printed matters tunics and dresses, pillows, and a large line of fabric coupons if you feel like a dressmaker.
Zen Ethic, it’s also its production approach : the respect of working conditions with a right remuneration, the promotion of local know-how as well as the constant concern of the ecological footprint.
Our selection on the Shop is full of freshness and colours : everything to illuminate your wardrobe and your home !
Not easy to place the words Green and Fashion Week in the same sentence. But if you speak about Berlin Fashion Week it becomes easier because Germany has been a leader in Green notion and sustainability in fashion.
The Berlin Fashion Week has just begun (5th to 10th July). Twice a year Berlin gives the opportunity to international fashion to gather buyers and professional visitors, and also journalists, to fairs and exhibitions in the city.
- Let’s start with the fair Bread & Butter for street-wear and urban wear – it exists since 2001.
- For fair fashion, Premium and its exhibitions show sustainable fashion, the very last trends and the actual stakes.
- For the first time during the Berlin Fashion Week : Ethical Fashion Show on GreenShowroom. We take the opportunity to remind that Ethical Fashion Show will be at Carrousel du Louvre during the Fashion Week of Paris.
It is worth saying that ethical fashion and local know-how are the hobby-horses of Ethical Fashion Show, also very concerned by education and influence on public. GreenShowroom is on a more luxury side. Both of them will present their approach and action in a beautiful hotel in Berlin.
Once more, ethical and sustainable fashion has to be first of all a matter of design…
Among our favourite brands, l’Herbe Rouge is on Premium (referenced on Ethical Trade Place !), Sakina M’Sa that we like very much and also Ethos another pretty fashion brand…
Francesco sums up very well his brand : high standard Brazilian handcraft with Italian design…
LACRE_BAGS is a range of ethical fashion accessories made with recycled aluminum pull-tabs. This is really a hard work in order to pick up the tabs, to clean them, to sew them one by one and crocheting them, to sew the lining… A whole process that requires a lot of patience and care.
All their models are exclusive and the accessories are sewn by hand in limited quantities.
As 2011 is the year of recycling, how nice to highlight such a simple material ! So let’s recycling with chic and couture items so urban, unique and ethical !
The winner of the competition organized by Néoplanète and Ethical Fashion Show is Linda Mai Phung : beautiful ready-to-wear which is ethical and French, with hints from Vietnam – the country of origin of the designer.
Néoplanète wanted to highlight a designer of ethical fashion on their first competition. So where was the difference among the 20 designers who participated ? Linda Mai Phung is involved in a social and environmental approach : she works closely with providers of eco materials and organizations who collaborate with modest people in Vietnam.
Her style is inspired by her trips full of poetry to Vietnam. She has the sense of honour to use only noble fabrics from Vietnam such as linen, silk, cotton and hemp… These textiles are weaved and dyed by hand. She also uses recycles fabrics (batiks and brocarts).
With the partnership with the magazine Néoplanète, we are pleased to offer to Linda Mai Phung the opportunity to show her collection on Ethical Trade Place (for professionals) or Ethical Trade Shop (for the public).
There is one place where plastic is not welcome at all : in nature and gardens.
But Isabelle Teste has no equivalent to sublimate plastic and to make is part of our life…
She is a designer fond of recycling, she never gets enough and she collects every kind of plastic. Cleaned, cut, sewed… Isabelle gives them a new life and they become a new item : nice, aesthetical and very practical !
Isabelle Teste is a mix of fantasy with a great practical sense. She started her carrier in advertising, then as a milliner at the Opera of Paris and in Haute Couture. So thanks to her know-how she is really able to transform and to change the vision of this very common material.
Hats, dresses, skirts… Isabelle cuts patiently circles and strips and then she sews.
In the garden you will re-use of the soil plastic but it has become a colourful and very resistant garden apron with a cotton lining. Need to carry your garden tools ? Look at this Garden Carrier Bag ! Isabelle pays a lot of attention and care to the details : double sewing, petersham on the aprons, perfect linings…
The season of weddings is coming ! We would like to talk about our dear Valérie Pache who creates eco-friendly dresses and also evening dresses… For more than a year on Ethical Trade Place® her beautiful dresses have delighted the future brides with her poetic and charming atmosphere.
Eco-designer ? Of course ! She is proud of it : in her workshop she works exclusively with unexpected materials such as paragliding and parachute cloth… and the lining is natural silk. The eco-friendly wedding dresses of Valérie Pache are really different.
She attaches importance to tailor-made and she is very attentive to details : gathers, pleats, sewing of petals, hangs… Her dresses have sweet names like Peony, Flamenco, Undine or Water-fall… what a program.
No veil but a delicate headdress illuminated thanks to Leds : a fairy apparition !
She also works colour and this is a dream, a fairy tales…
A new place for new offices ! Ethical Trade Place® has moved right this week to ‘rue du Chemin Vert’ in Paris, close to Bastille.
Also something new among our designers on the Shop : MARRON ROUGE has presented just for you its brand new ethical fashion accessories ! All kind of bags made of recycled tire tube, nice IPhone and IPad cases, embroidered cotton pouches, jewels, stuffed toys for babies, trendy decorations items… from the cooperation between France and India by craftsmen of fair trade.
Humour and freshness with the organic cotton tee-shirts of MASALA TEE for the whole family, even babies with lovely and colourful onesies and patterns… Indian ones of course ! We have already talked about this Indian brand : women and girls will try hard to chose their tee-shirt – with Swarovski stones embellished !
Ethical Trade Place® is especially dedicated to professionals : the platform creates the business relationship between ethical fashion designers and buyers – while the shop is for the public and friends. The Shop offers beautiful ethical fashion items by highlighting designers who show great fashion, fairer and above all very trendy…
Masala Tees are ethical, humanitarian, cool, urban and super comfy !
Featuring Warhol style prints, these green tees comprise of the faces of Bolly-esque vintage heroines (for women), moustached turbaned villains (for men), and adorned Indian animals (for the little children). With affiliations to various charitable organizations, coverage from Indian Vogue and tea-like elements as part of their unique and quirky packaging, Masala Tee has got ethical cool.
Organic cotton, bright colours for the whole family (included babies…), a Masala tee makes you feel cool and trendy…
An art gallery not like the others… CHINART highlights contemporary Chinese art in a Parisian place by showing young artists and designers.
The gallery has been Launched in 2005 by two designers Clément Ledermann, photograph and Katrin Rougeventre a China-lover. Chinart is on the big fairs in Paris and it distributes in Europe and United States a line of fashion accessories and stationery. Chinart is very attentive to ethical production (respect of people and their work) : it only offers little series items with traditional know-how and modernity as well.
“Made in China” has been always criticized but it is not what it seems ! Artists get inspiration from a lot of influences, they express their art in such a diverse way : photography, painting, peinture, graffitis, sewing, comics…
CHINART show their work : this is a way of changing our sight on the new artistic identity of this country. The artists act with the respect to cultures and multicultural exchanges with limited editions. Freedom of expression is complete : fashion, lifestyle, design… all this shows China in a turmoil. The artists are just reinventing their millenial heritage in their mutating civilization.
From urban style to Haute Couture, she is an expert of perfect cut. Down jackets for women and men made of recycled blue uniforms of workers, lined with flowery white & black silk… A large collection of hand bags and shoulder bags made of patchwork of this special resistant blue fabric : all this is the Blue Line. The blue uniform of workers has changed his look and is now converted into chic and glamorous garments.
As Sakina is an expert of cut, she creates amazing blouses, dresses with great shapes… This is a mix of sobriety and sophistication for women between 25 and 50 years old.
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