Ecoluxe London September 2012 Competition

Ecoluxe London brings to you a fabulous opportunity to present your creations and participate in the Ecoluxe London September 2012 Competition.

The competition encourages eco conscious and sustainable designers to compete not only with their peers but also emulate their own work; allowing them to prove themselves and be distinguished within the wider fashion industry.

The winner of the competition will be announced in the upcoming September 2012 Ecoluxe London exhibition and will bag a free space to exhibit their collection at the Ecoluxe London February 2013 event.

Participants are required to submit their entries by 12th September 2012 on info@ecoluxelondon.org

Requirements:

* Image(s) of your designed collection

* Describe your collection/brand story (50 words)

* Describe your business model (100 words)

* New designers and companies that have been operating less than 2 years…

We hope new and upcoming designers are prepared to take advantage of the lucrative opportunity presented by Ecoluxe i.e. Ecoluxe London Sept’ 12 Competition!!

Hurry! Submit your entries ASAP! Time is running out… Spread the word to give the young and upcoming ethical designers an opportunity to prove their mettle!!!

Connature – Ecoluxe London’s September 2012 online collaboration

Connature is an international online marketplace that helps suppliers liaise with buyers, of the sustainable field, providing multiple services that foster the buying and selling process whilst supporting company growth. Connature promotes a sustainable fashion that is ethical and forward thinking. They endorse eco-conscious brands and designers in order to demonstrate that a different way of conceiving style and beauty is actually possible. Nowadays the concept of “luxury” means something from the past that is similar but at the same time different. Connature’s philosophy is to support brand and designers who use sustainable practices that show respect for people, environment and animals by creating beautiful clothes and accessories that talk about this “new concept of style and elegance”.

This time its Lara Dassi of Connature who plays our game of 20 questions

  1. Your passion beyond fashion

Painting, music, singing, cinema, theatre, art and a lot more…

  1. Your life in three words

Enthusiastic, light, conscious

  1. Your life in colours

Blue, red, green

  1. Your Hero

People who really open their eyes and their heart…everyday

  1. What is your song/music

I love jazz

  1. What do you wear to bed

🙂

  1. Your favourite Flower

Tulip

  1. Your favourite food recipe

Indian rice

  1. Your rescue cooking trick

Pasta with tomato!

  1. Live to eat or eat to live

Eat to live

  1. Wine: Red or White

Absolutely red

  1. Selfridges or Spitalfeilds Market

Selfridges

  1. Peace of Mind or Scattered mind

Peace of mind!!

  1. Fantasy or Reality

Both

  1. Moonlight or Sunlight

Both

  1. Journey or Destination

Both

  1. What is your walk

Be myself and manifest it!

  1. Who will you be reincarnated as

Always as a woman

  1. What’s important to you?

Harmony with myself and love

  1. Food for Fashion

Both!

Indigreen by Nidhi Singh & Gaurav Gupta

Founded in January 2009, by Nidhi Singh & Gaurav Gupta, Indigreen is a fusion of art, high fashion, eco friendly values, fair trade ethics and a heavy dose of Bollywood & Indian Pop Art. The art is hand painted by former Bollywood poster painters who lost out on work after Bollywood advertising went digital. This concoction of green values, art and social messages incorporated in the Indigreen design makes it a unique, ‘communicative’ high fashion brand.

With concepts like 100% Indian ‘Luxury Pret Organic Tee, Organic Accessories, Home Art Décor and Stationery; Indigreen has created a buzz in the fashion, environment and art circles for its contribution in social and sustainable ethics. Indigreen takes pride in having received the Green Heroes Award at the National Geographic Green Conclave and being shortlisted as a finalist for the Young Creative Entrepreneurs Award by the British Council in October 2010, only a year after its launch.

With our game of 20 questions let’s get to know co-founder Nidhi Singh, beyond Indigreen

1)    Your passion beyond fashion

Yoga, Meditation, Travel

2)    Your life in three words

Everything is Energy

3)    Your life in colours

Green

4)    Your Hero

Paramahansa Yogananda

5)    What is your song/music

Trance- Robert Miles, Chicane, Paul Van Dyk, ATB

6)    What do you wear to bed

Recycled Indigreen tees and pyjamas/shorts

7)    Your favourite Flower

Lotus

8)    Your favourite food recipe

Rice and Lentils

9)    Your rescue cooking trick

Instant noodles

10)Live to eat or eat to live

Live to eat, laugh, and spread the joy

11)Wine: Red or White

Neither, prefer Vodka

12)Selfridges or Spitalfeilds Market

Both

13)Peace of Mind or Scattered mind

Happy mind

14)Fantasy or Reality

Will to turn Fantasy into Reality

15)Moonlight or Sunlight

Cloudy moonlight & sunlight- love the rains!

16)Journey or Destination

Both

17)What is your walk

Fast paced, happy gait

18)Who will you be reincarnated as

A yogi in the Himalayas

19)What’s important to you?

Spiritual path, family, work and philanthropy

20)Food for Fashion

Organic food, Ethical Fashion

B-MADE by Bernadette van de Braak

B-MADE is a ‘label for products with a conscious background’

B-MADE manufactures their products in Nepal: with a mission is to share, to give back and connect to the world. The social aspect to design is very important to founder Bernadette as a designer. With B-made she wants to prove that design and sustainability can go together.

We play our game of 20 questions with Bernadette van de Braak of

B-Made this time around

 1)    Your passion beyond fashion

Music, Dance, Movies

2)    Your life in three words

Living my dream

3)    Your life in colours

RAINBOW

4)    Your Hero

All the people that I am connected with at this time in life.

5)    What is your song/music

Music is with me at ALL times, this moment mainly Ben Howard

6)    What do you wear to bed

Shirt

7)    Your favourite Flower

Tulip

8)    Your favourite food recipe

Papad with a vegetarian Dhal Bath

9)    Your rescue cooking trick

Get someone else involved

10)Live to eat or eat to live

Eat to live

11)Wine: Red or White

A dry Red wine

12)Selfridges or Spitalfeilds Market

I love markets = hunting for a great discovery.

13)Peace of Mind or Scattered mind

Deal with a scattered mind to get some peace.

14)Fantasy or Reality

Fantasy

15)Moonlight or Sunlight

Moonlight = Romance

16)Journey or Destination

Journey

17)What is your walk

Shake my butt.

18)Who will you be reincarnated as

The next ‘Oprah Winfrey’

19)What’s important to you?

Love, Laughter and Honesty

20)Food for Fashion

Food

Inez Osvald


Inez Osvald is a unique accessories brand of designer luxury leather goods made in England. We only use vegetable-tanned leather from Scandinavian cows or naturally reared Swedish reindeer. We source sustainable textiles from reputable and fairly traded sources, thus helping local economies and artisans. Our aim is to make high-quality ethical bags that will be loved for generations.


A Game of 20 Questions with the founder of Inez Osvald

– Mari Chesterman 

1)    Your passion beyond fashion

Family & pets, friends

2)    Your life in three words

Chaotic, colourful, crazy

3)    Your life in colours

Red, black, white

4)    Your Hero

Elvis

5)    What is your song/music

You were always on my mind

6)    What do you wear to bed

T-shirt

7)    Your favourite Flower

Peony

8)    Your favourite food recipe

Organic chicken burgers with basil & mint

9)    Your rescue cooking trick

Always add more

10)Live to eat or eat to live

Live to eat

11)Wine: Red or White

Red

12)Selfridges or Spitalfeilds Market

Selfridges

13)Peace of Mind or Scattered mind

Peace of mind

14)Fantasy or Reality

Reality

15)Moonlight or Sunlight

Sunlight

16)Journey or Destination

Journey

17)What is your walk?

Fast

18)Who will you be reincarnated as

A bunny

19)What’s important to you?

My family

20)Food for Fashion

Think before

Ecoluxe London by Stamo and Elena Garcia

A not for profit platform that supports luxury fashion with an ethos; Ecoluxe London was established by designers Stamo and Elena Garcia in 2010 echoing a need to showcase and promote ethical luxury. Having created a stir in only four seasons the duo are getting ready to showcase yet another season of fashion extravagance in September 2012; addressing notable fashion buyers and select eco-conscious designers from across the globe to join them. Representing timeless collectives and unique brand stories that separate luxury from the price tag; Ecoluxe London is synonymous with high-end eco fashion that’s responsible, ethical and sustainable.

Amidst all the serious business, excitement and mayhem during the build-up to the event it becomes more and more evident that there is more to Stamo and Elena than just the pursuit of an eco-luxury lifestyle. In a game of 20 questions they give a glimpse of their lighter colourful side…

Stamo

1)    Your passion beyond fashion

Music, fabrics, hats, shoes, handbags, embroideries, textiles… would that be fashion I wonder…

2)    Your life in three words

Obsessed with my obsessions… (Sorry I did 4 words)

3)    Your life in colours

Red with a pink hue

4)    Your Hero

Alexander the Great and my great grandmother

5)    What is your song / music

Depends on the mood… Bach at the moment

6)    What do you wear to bed

My teddy bear

7)    Your favourite Flower

Gardenias

8)    Your favourite food recipe

The one I do not have to cook

9)    Your rescue cooking trick

A nice restaurant

10)Live to eat or eat to live

Love food

11)Wine: Red or White

Don’t like wine am a very cheap date

12)Selfridges or Spitalfeilds Market

Both in random order

13)Peace of Mind or Scattered mind

Combi- two for the price of three

14)Fantasy or Reality

Science fiction

15)Moonlight or Sunlight

Moonlight if I am badly dressed

16)Journey or Destination

Ithaka by Kavafy

17)What is your walk

Cobble stoned

18)Who will you be reincarnated as

Myself; only taller

19)What’s important to Stamo

To smile and/or laugh at life

20)Food for Fashion

Fashion is food

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Elena Garcia

1)    Your passion beyond fashion

Music, I write and sign songs.

2)    Your life in three words

Love – Love – Love

3)    Your life in colours

Blue, different shades of. 

4)    Your Hero

My Cat

5)    What is your song / music

I change the whole time, music is always in my head, Mazzy Star at the moment.

6)    What do you wear to bed

My wedding ring

7)    Your favourite Flower

Dark red roses and daisies

8)    Your favourite food recipe

Seafood and fish stew

9)    Your rescue cooking trick

Add a little brandy to a boring soup

10)Live to eat or eat to live

Live to eat, I love it

11)Wine: Red or White

Red, white gives me headaches

12)Selfridges or Spitalfeilds Market

Both

13)Peace of Mind or Scattered mind

I try to achieve the first, but I tend to be the second

14)Fantasy or Reality

I don’t distinguish between them

15)Moonlight or Sunlight

Moonlight

16)Journey or Destination

Journey, great 80’s band

17)What is your walk

Quite springy

18)Who will you be reincarnated as

A fly who thinks she is a bee

19)What’s important to Stamo

Husband, kids, friends, people, animals, plants, music, stories, beauty

20)Food for Fashion

I thought fashion people didn’t eat

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