Project Earth Day: NYC-based Eco-Runway Show and Student Competition!
April 21, 2009 at 2:58 pm (CONTESTS, EARTH DAY, ECONOMICS OF GREEN FASHION, ETHICAL FASHION, EVENTS, FASHION, FASHION SHOWS, GREEN ECO FASHION, NEWS, PRESS, RUNWAY SHOWS)
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Photosource: Jill Fehrenbacher. www.inhabitat.com
Green Cotton is excited to announce one of the greatest “hot ticket” Eco-Fashion events this Earth Day: The 3rd annual Runway Show and Student Competition which will take place at “Project Earth Day” in New York City on Thursday in Lower Manhattan April 23rd, at 6 pm. Project Earth Day was created originally to celebrate NYC-based leadership in the fashion, interiors, and green building industries, and is featuring some of the most talented budding Eco-Fashion Designers as well as the most innovative brands making sustainable design in the fashion world today.
Bahar Shahpar is playing the role of stylist and co-producer for this event in partnership with the US Green Building Council (USGBC) and the New York Restoration Project (NYRP), guaranteeing the event will be a success and on the frontier of Eco-Chic Fashion.
The theme this year is ‘Through the Looking Glass: An Exploration of Scale and Proportion,’ explained by the organizers as a metaphoric play on dimension: “Our Wonderland is present-day New York City, viewed through a distorted lens – where big is small, small is big, and the worlds of building and fashion collide through an exploration of scale.”
The student competition gives new designers an opportunity to get great media coverage, be voted on by a distinguished panel of guest judges, and generate buzz about their new label or collection. Another function of Project earth Day, therefore, is to help those in the established Eco-Fashion world identify new talent. Last year’s winners assure us that picking this year’s winners’ will be challenging. Previous winners include Amira Marion, Maritza Romo de Fusco, Judy Lee, Ashley Newsome, and Daphne Woo.
2008 Grand Prize Winner: Amira Marion. Photosource: www.inhabitat.com
2008 Second Place Winner: Maritza Romo de Fusco. Photosource: www.inhabitat.com
Project Earth Day’s broad group of contributing sponsors reflects the growing understanding of how important sustainability, as well as fashion, are in our modern world. This event has the potential to have a broad effect on the Eco-Fashion world, and imbue an urban Eco-Chic feel to the most modern of trends. A limited number of tickets are still available, so if you could somehow make it to this event on Thursday, you would probably be doing yourself a favor!
Stay tuned for Green Cotton’s recap of this event at a later date!
By: Julia Rea
