Posted on 08/22/2009 10:18:20 AM PDT by Steelfish
'Vegan fashion' is not an oxymoron
'Vegan fashion' is not an oxymoron: Designers with vegan convictions are creating animal-free high style.
VEGAN STYLE: Vaute Couture bamboo-organic cotton velvet and vegan satin lined coat, $2,000; Stella McCartney sequin dress, $2,135 at Stella McCartney, Los Angeles. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)
Susan Carpenter
They've given up eating burgers. And bacon. And anything else that used to have a pulse or came from something with a pulse.
But just because they're vegan doesn't mean they're unfashionable -- only more selective. If an animal was harmed to make a material that goes into clothing, that material is off limits. So wearing leather isn't an option. Neither is wool from little lambs eating ivy -- cruelty to the animals in factory farm conditions is a concern. Silk, which destroys the worm to harvest the thread, is a no-no. And so, of course, are fur and fluffy down.
For years, dressing vegan meant nubuck Birkenstocks and hemp sack dresses or message tees with slogans such as "Cow Hugger." Options were limited, especially for shoes, accessories and cold-weather clothing.
But thanks to a growing crop of clothing lines that allow style-conscious individuals to align their attire with their cruelty-free beliefs, it's now possible to defy the Berkeley stereotype. Vegan and high fashion? They're no longer mutually exclusive terms.
"I didn't want to be the brand that only hippies wear," said Elizabeth Olsen, founder of olsenHaus Pure Vegan footwear in New York. OlsenHaus, which has been in business one year, makes strappy stilettos, ultrasuede ankle boots and colorful ballet flats using a mixture of manmade, plant-based and recycled materials.
These are shoes that could easily stroll a red carpet and raise eyebrows -- not so much for their ethics but for their stylish ingenuity.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Yes it is.
Maybe not, but “Vegan intelligence” is.
And they’re so much better than you too!
LOL!
So polyester is in now? Whatever happened to "natural" fabrics? Back to the '70s!
In-your-face-fashion.
It's just not "oxy".
Cotton? Those monsters!
Do they realize how many worms die when cotton fields are tilled each year!?!?
END THE WORM GENOICIDE NOW!!! SAY NO TO COTTON!!
They could be extras in, “Attack of the Fruit Flies.”
When you take into consideration all the energy required for synthetic materials for clothing, the above statement is more lies. I am personally getting sick and tired of these dim bulb environweenies.
When they talk about making shoes from recycled plastic bottles, start from the time the oil was pumped (energy) out of the ground, pumped (energy) through a pipeline, pumped (energy)into a ship, ship sails (energy) to pick up raw crude at a loading facility), ship sails (energy) to a refinery, oil for plastic is transported (energy) to a bottle making plant (which uses energy for its processes), transported (energy) to a bottling company (which uses energy for its processes), transported (energy) through the distributrion system, transported (energy) to consumer's place of use, transported (energy) to recycling company (recycling company uses energy for forklifts etc), transported (energy) to shoe manufacturer (manufacturer uses energy for its processes) of synthetic products using recycled materials.
Compare to:
Cow is loaded (no energy here because the cattle have legs) onto a cattle truck and transported (energy)to a slaughter house (slaughter house uses energy for its processing), the hide is sent (energy) to the tanner, and the hide is transported (energy)through the distribution system to the shoe manufacturer (energy used in manufacturing process).
Eeww....LOL
If these nut jobs REALLY want to make a statement in favor of eating only plants they should have their canine teeth removed.
Dig it! :-D
ick!
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