Archive for December, 2007

Next Year is the Year of the Blue Iris

Don’t throw away your blue suede shoes and plan on having a blue, blue Christmas because Pantone, the global authority on color, selected Pantone (R) 18-3943 Blue Iris as the color of the year for 2008. Blue iris is best described as a beautifully balanced blue-purple.  Pantone’s color choices typically influence color trends for the [...]

The Transition of Fashion Design to Green Design

Would you sacrifice your fashion sense for ethical clothing? I ask that question quite often and I get many different answers. The best answer I ever received was from a young girl in Austin, Texas who said, “Going green is not a sacrifice.”
Now it seems that the fashion industry is moving the standards to ethical [...]

Fashion Industry Goes Green

The technology industry is going green which is no surprise. We recently wrote a story at another 1800blogger blog about Google going green. Now, the fashion industry is also going green.
Last month, Levi’s began selling a pair of jeans made of 100% organic cotton. Consumers are now more aware of the environmental cost of conventionally grown [...]

Tennis Great Turns to Fashion

Tennis superstar and international celebrity Venus Williams will receive her Associates Degree from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale on December 13th, 2007. Williams and her sister Serena’s have made it no secret that their passion after tennis is fashion.
Williams line EleVen, consists of clothing, footwear and accessories where each item is priced at under [...]