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Green Fashion and Charity

Green fashion has truly taken over the entire fashion industry of the world today and the ones most happy about this transition are the local artisans, who have finally found appreciation for their work. The concept of green fashion thrives on creating stylish and trendy outfits from material that is eco friendly. So, instead of machine made Lycra outfits, hand crafted organically grown cotton garments are preferred. One of the biggest misconceptions about green garments is that they can be bought from specialized stores only and are usually made by designers who charge a lot of green for their creations. However, this is far from the truth.

Green fashion designers have gone beyond simply the fair trade policies, to contributing large sums of their proceeds to charitable causes. Green fashion is not targeted only at generating money for the manufacturers but there are several brands that contribute a part or all of their proceeds to charity. Manufacturers like Signorelli have made a huge impact by launching the Omni Peace Tee. 100% of the proceeds generated from the sale of this tee, go towards fighting hunger in the African subcontinent. A truly noble and pressing cause! Priced at 65.00 USD the Omni Tee is a great example of green fashion promoting charitable causes. While several famous personalities like Julia Roberts, Courtney Cox and many others have contributed immensely to the popularity of this tee, it is the immensely touching cause that the green fashion tee promotes that has made it so attractive.

While many believe that the fashion industry is all hype, while charity is a gesture that is more subtle in nature and therefore the two cannot combine. However, with green fashion trends flowing into charity areas too, it is clear today that fashion and charity can go hand in hand. Interestingly, many green fashion designers have taken on various earth friendly charitable causes, right from saving almost extinct species to providing education to the underprivileged children in under developed countries. Ciel.s founder Sarah Ratty ensures that part of her sales proceeds goes to saving the rain forests via the website staro.org. She states that instead of waiting for politicians to get their act together, she feels better doing her own bit immediately and regularly.

Since the concept of green fashion stems from an ecological concern for our planet, it is but obvious that the designers who have come up with green fashion labels are aware and conscientious individuals. Therefore, it is no surprise then that they look beyond themselves and contribute to several charitable causes too. Green fashion works towards recycling clothes, using material and fabrics that are produced by no danger to the earth and also by following the fair trade policies. But, most of all green fashion is coming to be associated with supporting charitable causes. Buyers of green creations are also conscientious ones who are happy to wear green clothes and delighted at the prospect of having helped a charitable cause in doing so.

Famous and established designers are opting for the green fashion statement and several of them are also lending their names to many chartable causes. Even completely commercial set ups like E Bay have found a charitable bone in them. And one can see quite a few, one style - one piece creations by designers like DKNY, Marina Rinaldi and even Diesal denims that can be bought here and the proceeds will go to charitable causes of countries like Australia, UK, Malaysia and Taiwan.

Truly green fashion has arrived and with it, it has bought charity right to threshold of fashion. Kill three birds with one stone, wear green, look good and support a charitable cause too. Truly a great combination!