Nice piece on stripy LemLem, sustainably made clothing and accessories from weavers in Ethiopia, by style.com. 

Everyone’s looking to Africa for inspiration, let’s hope investment in the country lasts

The Financial Times Style section featured a nice collection article of all the cool African-inspired and Africa invested fashion projects going on currently. Links to projects include my favorite, Suno NY, as well as new discoveries (for me, at least) Duro Olowu and Near Far.  The articles states that Anthropologie put an order in for a bunch of Near Far skirts and rompers. 

image courtesy of Suno NY

image courtesy of Duro Olowu

image courtesy of Near Far

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photo courtesy of Where.  It’s so hottt.  And its fair trade. The UK shoe design and accessories firm, Where, sources all their handmade products from “small producers and artisan communities around the globe” paying them a fair, living wage.  They were also featured in Vogue.com’s “Ethical and Sustainable brands to know” for Spring 2010.

Bring on the Clothing Libraries! →

Symposium-Towards Sustainable Fashion at Parsons on May 4 in conjunction with Scandinavia House →

I should really play up my Scandinavian roots more :)

Estethica picks: MAXJENNY and Lu Flux

Ecouterre narrowed down the 28 designers featured at Estethica, the British Fashion Council’s seventh season of showcasing sustainable fashion designers during London Fashion Week, to a couple eye-catching ones to watch. I narrowed it further to two that caught my eye.

MAXJENNY: Dutch avant-garde.  Color! Color! Architecture!

and

LU FLUX: London designer with vintage collages and lots of picnic table summer camping whimsical feel good pieces.  I can’t pull the pics, but here a cute video :)