Looking for that perfect accessory that can help your look go from day to night? It’s hard to find that perfect bag that allows you to flawlessly transition and still project the look you’re going for. Well look no further. The team here at Modavanti has just the selection of clutches to help you add color, style, and keep you in with the latest trend for this fall.
It’s hard not to love Amour Vert. For one, they lay claim to nearly all of our sustainability badges on Modavanti. More importantly, they have a great look and story to boot.
Catrinka is an ethical fashion accessories label that invests in women and girls. Their first effort, the Catrinka Project, was inspired by Girl Rising, a documentary film about girls education, and features a bag made by women artisans in each of the ten countries featured in the film. A portion of the profits from these unique bags go to efforts to remove barriers between girls and education in the countries where the bags were made. Buy a Bag, Employ a Woman, Educate a Girl.
Designed and produced in southern California, Heidi Merrick pays homage to the California lifestyle. Every piece, if not made in the downtown LA studio, is made within walking distance of it. It is a local footprint with a global appeal.
Here at Modavanti we are big fans of Heidi Merrick. The L.A. based designers is the namesake behind one of our favorite brands. We love her SS14′ and wanted to give you a sneak peak into where Heidi gets her inspiration. Last fall it was from the sea. This spring/summer she ventured to Marrakesh. Travel with Heidi to Morocco and Shop her collection here.
Obviously, the Victoria Secret Angels are obsessed with our brand Westward Leaning’s sunnies. Rosie and Alessandra know what’s up. #style #chic#fashion #supermodel #modelfaces #celebrity #streetstyle #summer #eco#conscious
It’s great to see so many millions of Americans reject the nasty pesticides and chemicals in our foods. But what about our clothes? Pesticides from regular cotton have been known to show up in mother’s breast milk as well as have been linked as the main source of cancer in thousands of American farmers each year. If these pesticides can get into our blood stream, than how is it different than if we were to ingest them in our food. It’s not. Organic cotton is critical to our health and that of our planet.
Here are 10 ways that organic cotton is better for all of us.
Yael Stone, from Orange is the New Black discussing her style and why she shops sustainably. Read her full article here: http://www.letmikeywriteit.com/picts/YaelStoneAstonish.pdf
Also in her day-to-day life, Stone doesn’t wear the bright red lipstick that her character Morello does. She describes her approach to fashion and style as low maintenance and
she literally wears her idealism on her sleeve. “I try to wear designers who work within fair trade regulations and who manufacture in environmentally sensitive ways and still produce gorgeous clothes,” says Stone. “I think people like Carolina K do that, as well as websites like Modavanti. They help point me in the right direction.” In clothing, Stone loves color, texture and architecture. Imagination and originality in fashion inspire her. “I love seeing people out in the street or in a fashion context where something really authentic, exciting or dangerous is being expressed.”
Modavanti brand Popinjay is featured in Ecouterre!
Popinjay has social justice in the bag. Founded by MIT graduate Saba Gul, the luxury purveyor employs some 150 women artisans in Gul’s native Pakistan to make its high-end leather purses, clutches, satchels, and totes. Popinjay didn’t have the smoothest of beginnings. After a false start as a nonprofit, Popinjay reinvented itself as a for-profit with a more-sophisticated bent…
The road to Popinjay’s creation as a luxury handbag company started when I was in graduate school. I heard the story of a young Afghan girl, Azaada Khan, who disguised herself as a boy for 12 years to be allowed to attend school. She changed her name, cut her hair, the way she dressed, walked, talked and everything about her to take on this new identity. I could not stop thinking about Azaada’s story—it was so real and raw for me.
Even though I had grown up in next-door Pakistan, my life had taken a radically different course from Azaada’s. while she had to change her identity to get a middle school education, I was getting my second degree at MIT.
Popinjay started as a pilot with 25 teenage girls in Attock in the Punjab province of Pakistan in 2011.
That summer I traveled to the community in Pakistan that was being helped by the same [non-governmental organization] that had enabled Azaada to get an education. I started a pilot here to provide girls and women access to basic education and skills training.
Eventually, in 2011, I left my corporate job in the United States to return to Pakistan and work on this full-time. What is Popinjay today started as a pilot with 25 teenage girls in Attock in 2011, and got rebranded into the luxury, accessories fashion brand, Popinjay, in the fall of 2013.
Courtesy of PACT Organics: PACT is taking fair trade to places it’s never been before: your everyday wardrobe.
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