Pantheia – Organic Views, Today’s Fashion Essentials

When talking about fashion and apparel brands catering to those in search of quality organic fashion essentials, Pantheia remains to be one of the best, making a habit out of churning out quality fashion items such as organic clothing, handbags, and jewelry.

With superb detailing on its line of jewelry items, to the impressive construction of its bamboo-made boxes, Pantheia also highlights items which are handmade utilizing banana leaves, made by the experienced hands of expert Balinese artisans.

Advocates of international fair trade terms, Pantheia ensures that its artisans are given their due share in the creation of quality eco-friendly products, defining Pantheia as a brand worthy of anyone’s attention.

The Pantheia Advantage

Taking in Balinese production techniques and methods in the creation of its products, Pantheia’s featured items are all made in Bali, with artisans who have mastered the craft of creating products via traditional tools and materials.

Combining the infused traditional methods of creating knits, woven fabrics and jewelry products which are inspired from the Balinese culture, Pantheia highlights incredibly beautiful craftsmanship in each of item, not only coming out with quality fashion and accessory items, but also contributes to the elevation of the lives of its artisans.

Initiating its philanthropic advocacy in 2011, Pantheia dedicates a portion of its profits to the advancement of artistic education and training in Bali, with grants and funding dedicated to weaving classes, knitting classes and advanced jewelry making classes for young Balinese girls aged between 12 to 18 years old.

With Pantheia, jewelry isn’t only at its most best, but those responsible in their creation are given the best of opportunities, something which not every other brand out there can herald as an inherent “feature”.

If organic jewelry and fashion is your thing, Pantheia’s got something for you, as well as for its craftsmen and artisans.

Sparrow Handbags

The Essentials

Bold graphics, bright colors and an attention to details are what sets Sparrow Handbags apart. With 3 successful collections already to its name, this line will made a stylish impression with its practical yet feminine designs that range from super modern to slightly retro.

Ethic-Chic

Sparrow Handbags are made with organic and sustainable materials. All textiles are dyed with low-impact dyes and graphics are silk-screened in-house using environmentally friendly inks. Recycled Tetra boxes are used as bag bottoms. Each handbag is made by hand in Canada without the use of any animal products, which makes them 100% vegan!

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Redhanded Handbags

The Essentials

Redhanded offers hip and chic, fashion-forward ladies handbags including purses, clutches, totes, messenger bags and computer bags for men and women. Their sexy Handcuff Clutch has been featured in Accessories Mag, and their computer bags have been featured in the Huffington Post as a must-have. Redhanded’s founders are tired of companies claiming they can’t afford to use sustainable materials or manufacture in the USA–they are here to prove them wrong. Redhanded Eco Bags…Carry a beautiful weight upon your shoulder.

Ethic-Chic

Redhanded Eco Bags is a Green America certified company–all products are made of VOC-free, Toxin-free, Solvent-free, vegan outer materials and GOTS certified organic linings. Redhanded source from only fair labour mills and manufacture only in the USA.

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My Bag Cares

The Essentials

It’s the bag of the moment. Featured in fashion and style magazines from Elle to OK!, it has been seen on the arm of celebs like Kelly Ripa, Rihanna, Joel Hale, and many more. The bag is hardly trendy – it’s brown and square, made of linen and cotton, but it holds what six grocery bags can, and has a clear message that lets people know that your bag cares. What else are you going to put your organic fruits and veggies in?

Ethic-Chic

For each bag purchase, My Bag Cares plants a tree through the Arbor Day Foundation in areas of National Forests devastated by forest fires. In addition, each bag is reusable and washable, and is made from eco-friendly materials, and the company uses recycled materials for shipping.

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Mountains Of The Moon

The Essentials

Smart dressing is now much simpler. Mountains of the Moon offers clever solutions to wardrobe problems, like the elegant and versatile Audrey wrap dress that can be worn over tights, wide-legged pants, or on its own. Other dresses in the line evoke 60s eras icons—the Emma and the Edie—and offer fun takes on the shift silhouette in a range of pop-art colors. To complete a savvy wardrobe, check out Chicago-based Mountains of the Moons’ intelligent mix of graphic tees and hoodies, wide-legged pants, bubble shorts, open-shouldered tops, and a-line skirts.

Ethic-Chic

Mountains of the Moon clothing is designed, patterned, manufactured, dyed and tagged in the USA in small, sweatshop-free facilities that are family owned and operated. Eco-friendly materials like hemp, tencel and organic cotton that are known for durability and long-life are used in all designs.

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Me + You

The Essentials

Using your own shopping bag instead of plastic bags for grocery shopping is a simple idea. Dismayed by the lack of fashionable options, Elizabeth Clark and Jenny Hughes created Me + You in 2005, making their own cute, fashionable and straight-to-the-point graphics and recruiting other designers for their limited edition artist series. Their Bold, Cheeky and Lovely bags rank among their top sellers, but being stylish and well-crafted has a big part to play in Me + You”s unprecedented overall success.

Ethic-Chic

The first of its kind in North America, Me + You offers reusable tote bags that are both environmentally and fashion conscious. Me + You uses vintage materials and organic cotton, and all bags are made according to socially and ethically responsible practices in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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La Vie Devant Soie

The Essentials

So you’ve found your perfect organic cotton evening dress for that special event and your thoughts turn to accessorizing. With a whole range of rich and colorful cocktail clutches, evening bags and precious purses, you might just find the perfect complement amongst Sandy Blain’s creations. But this collection is not restricted to evening: mixed with other materials, silk is also the base of pretty and practical day bags and carry-alls.

Ethic-Chic

Sandy Blain’s adventure began on a humanitarian trip to Cambodia in 2002. Meeting talented women who couldn’t find work or security in this country in crisis, she decided to create a project to help them make a better life through the use of their ancestral silk-working skills. Today, all bags are made in Cambodia in a women’s social reinsertion program in the province of Stung Treng.

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JUJUBE

The Essentials

JUJUBE® is an Ecological Apparel Design label founded on 08.08.08 with a strong mantra defined by four core values:

Love the Earth,
Love People,
Love Originality,
Love Quality.

JUJUBE® designs clothes using environmentally friendly fabrics that are produced in a socially responsible manner.

Beyond designing ecological apparel, JUJUBE® believes that it is the combined responsibility of designers, producers, and consumers to affect change in our respective societies such that ecological fashion ceases to be the exception and instead becomes the status quo.

Ethic-Chic

JUJUBE® prêt-a-porter eco-luxury women’s wear attempts a holistic eco-design approach by combining materiality with methodology, inspired by the motto “Save Cost. Save Space. Save the Earth.”
Using only 100% Lenzing Modal certified by the EU Eco-Label, JUJUBE® ‘s patented G.R.O.W. Modulated Clothing Design System not only minimizes raw material consumption, but also reduces wardrobe usage and increases the value of design exponentially.

By zipping modular parts to create whole dresses, one can generate as many as 25 different looks from just 5 modulated designs!

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In Harmony

The Essentials

The serene inspiration of Hindu culture melds beautifully with the Western influences of Moorish and Roman architecture, Flamenco costumes, and Art Deco style to create In Harmony’s distinctive look. A trip to Bali inspired In Harmony’s designer Antonina Ramsey to learn the traditional art of Batik making, which she soon incorporated into her international aesthetic to create subtly sexy, sophisticated clothing. European style with international ethnic vibe, simple cuts, luxe fabrics, and quiet sophistication. In Harmony indulges the inner artist dying to express herself with unique, made-to-order pieces. Termed ready to wear ‘street couture’, In Harmony’s collection of signature pieces and luxury apparel is crafted from pearlescent hand-woven silk made in Indonesia.

Ethic-Chic

In Harmony is committed to incorporating low-impact processing and fair trade practices in all aspects of manufacture. Silk from sustainably harvested mulberry tree cocoons is hand or machine-spun into raw silk that is woven in traditional artisanal workshops. Sewing co-ops and plant based, low impact dyes are also used to create a very responsible final product.

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Hemp Hoodlamb

The Essentials

Sustainability meets urban fashion. A stylistic marriage made in comfort, producing cashmere-soft and naturally strong clothing from Hemp Hoodlamb’s own unique blends of hemp and other eco-friendly fabrics.

Traces of surfer life and an independent creative mindset reveal the labels’ origins (HoodLamb founders Douglas Mignola and Adam Dunn are originally from California and New York), but HoodLambs’ head quarters and design studio are located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Quality, comfort and innovative design are trademarks of the HoodLamb Collection. Whether you are plowing through a meter of snow in your drive-way or need to warm up quickly after a chilly session in the surf, you can rely on HoodLamb to keep you warm and comfortable in style. HoodLamb has a fresh, laid-back vibe with an eye toward practical features like water-proofing and functional pockets.

When it comes to design, HoodLamb doesn’t follow the hypes of the fashion world, but creates apparel that never goes out of style and remains a wardrobe favorite year after year. Their range of Winter Jackets has gained a large following with even celebrities like Snoop Dogg, Woody Harrelson and Michael Franti amongst their fans.

Ethic-Chic

Riding the first wave of sustainable technology, Hemp Hoodlamb pioneered through creating its own blends of eco-fabrics to create high-performance clothing. Their Cruelty Free Fur has been named as one of the softest and most comfortable fur alternatives available in various design reviews. Through the use of eco-friendly materials, they hope to create awareness about sustainable production and consumption and demonstrate that fashion and sustainability can be combined into one entity.

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