Green Fashion going primal

Savage Designs is a local wild woman design studio in Topanga, CA town of rich hippies and lots of horses. Deborah Lindquist started off in Topanga, which seem to do well for strong, creative women.

Linda Loudermilk showed the wilder side of her eco-designs, which are usually tres chic (below)

and the girls at Dreamtime joined in with Amazon punkishness.

Dreamtime team in Santa Cruz, CA. They produce: primal earth-tone fashion magic…

Vivienne Westwood wasn’t at the fair in LA but blew the limits at the last Paris Fashion Week, who’s content with just pushing them? with a colorful, wild and childlike eco-warrior  collection.

It all began with a letter mailed to the the queen of punk fashion from an elementary school class in Nottingham, England. Westwood not only wrote back, but knowing how imaginative children are, offered an art assignment that would turn into the unexpected opportunity of co-designing her Fall 2008 collection.

Passion at the Green Business Fair

I vibrated blissfully last weekend at the green business fair at the LA Convention Center. I missed Ed Begley Jr on Friday, but then, I’ve got a whole video tape full of the guy from his book presentation. Here we have panelists KPFK radio host Sherry Beall and Boise Thomas from Discovery Channel Planet Green’s show Alter Eco. He told me that sadly they don’t know what’s next for that show and if they’d find another main topic to continue for another season. Adrian Grenier, main man of Alter Eco, goes on with Entourage though.  Josh Dorfman was as spirited as the other two and while they constantly called for the public’s comments, they couldn’t stop talking themselves, truly exited about their projects. Dorfman wrote “The Lazy Environmentalist” and is about to publish a sequel for the lower budget folks. He’s also developing a show with the same name for Sundance Channel – if they come through we’ll should be in with a segment on “how to create green weddings” the lazy way. Their philosophy: be green the easy way but don’t stress it. My comment: a little effort isn’t bad looking at a feverish world. But I agree wholeheartedly that we can’t convince anybody to live mindful if it’s freaking them out and adds more worries to an already full plate. Then we have Mariel Hemingway, actress gone green. She promoted her book: “Healthy Living from the Inside Out” with the convincing tag line: our first home is our body. Makes sense to start there if we wanna be green in a broader sense. She’s 47 and gave up being vegan a little while ago, exchanging her diet with vegetarian options and applying a Feng Shui approach to body, mind and other dwellings.

GLiving is for the “cool green” people… check if you are oe of them.

Rebels in rocking chairs

The revolutions of decades long past called their “workers to unite”. In the seventies and eighties Salon Punks and Sofa Socialists rocked and colored their neighborhoods. Bloggers took the stage in 2000 and while we were holding our breath the new generation of techno-rebels creates the codes, and develops the chips to change the world one mobile platform at a time. We don’t have to unite, go on the streets, swing banners and scream. We just have to connect.