Clothing with values
Simon Fleher
Petit Bamboo is an Australian-owned and designed baby wear label made from 95% bamboo blend. The brand is renowned for its natural, sustainable and eco-friendly baby garments that are silky smooth and luxuriously soft on the skin. The label designs classic pieces for ‘modern babies’ with an nature-friendly focus. Bamboo fabric is often considered eco-friendly as bamboo requires little …
WHY BAMBOO? Bamboo is a remarkable and highly versatile natural resource. Using it to make bamboo clothing is just one of its many possible applications. Bamboo has been utilised in Asia for many centuries in a wide range of uses, such as in cooking, construction, transport, and medicine – as well as textiles. Only relatively …
The Fashion Blender blog was created by sustainability and eco-friendly entrepreneur, Kiri Yanchenko, and posts intriguing musings on fashion, design, art, photography and lifestyle. Kiri’s latest company, Amperna, produces probiotic skincare for sensitive skin and it is generating great word-of-mouth momentum and positive press with its environmentally-friendly purpose and the efficacy of its products. Amperna …
It is no secret that conventional cotton farming is harmful for the planet. According to the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), it covers 2.4% of the world’s cultivated land yet uses 6% of the world’s pesticides and 16% of insecticides. But what about the human impacts of this dirty crop? These impacts form an equally strong case against …