Green guide for fashion & beauty by Jen Marsden
style • catwalk • cosmetics • ethics • accessories • jewellery
• eco fabrics • case studies • advice • directory
Jen Marsden, a former editor of New Consumer magazine, rummages through wardrobes, bathroom cabinets, stores and the web to produce a cutting edge global guide to eco-chic style.
Smart or sleek, sexy or sultry. Whatever look you’re aiming for, you can be an eco-fashionista by wearing the most glamorous and greenest clothing and beauty products around.
The Green Guide to Fashion & Beauty sheds light on the fashion and beauty industries, examining ethical dilemmas and purchasing decisions and checking out what we mean by fair trade, organic, local, vintage and more…
Whatever your style, this brand new publication has got eco chic sussed. Adorning yourself naturally and with consideration is an ideal way to lighten the planet’s world.
The book highlights true green heroes through case studies and exhibits some of the latest collections from companies making a difference. It answers questions and dilemmas such as:
* How to stay glam without compromising style and ethics
* How to avoid fabrics that harm the environment?
* How to buy less but still have more
* Why we should worry about child labour in sweatshops
* What really are organic and natural cosmetics?
* What does animal-testing and animal-free mean?
* Which shops are the greenest on the high street?
* Where to go for the choicest vintage garments
* Can items really be glam if they are made from recycled and re-used materials?
* The best ways to breathe new life into products by repairing, reusing and rehoming
* Where to go to learn to knit and sew
* Can jewellery sparkle without shame?
* How to accessorise ethically
The Green Guide to Fashion & Beauty is a 360-page, full-colour guide to being glam, green and gorgeous. Each chapter includes an accessible explanation of the social, ethical and environmental considerations of your wardrobe and bathroom cabinet, offering greener options, and the low-down on the coolest planet-friendly style alternative options.
It includes inspiring photography, case studies and advice from the experts. There is also a comprehensive directory that covers fabrics, DIY, high street and designer fashion, cosmetics, bathroom luxuries, accessories and jewellery, providing an opportunity to be fabulously eco-chic. It’s all done with a lighthearted touch that guides, inspires and delights. There’s no preaching here – just everything needed to make your wardrobe as green and natural as possible.
Comprehensive Global Directory
The directory will contain listings for more than 1000 brands, manufacturers, suppliers and organisations making it probably the most comprehensive global survey of eco and ethical fashion and beauty.
The Third in a New Series
The Green Guide to Fashion & Beauty is the third in a new series of special edition Green Guides that enable readers to fit green thinking into their lifestyle, at a pace and depth of their own choosing.
About the author
Jen Marsden has lived abroad and worked on various charitable, community and sustainable business projects in India, Kenya and the UK. She has edited and contributed to various ethical lifestyle publications including New Consumer. She currently lives in London and works with The Green Guide as its Home & Lifestyle Editor. Her previous books are the Green Guides for Weddings and for Home & Household.
About the Green Guide
The Green Guide, first published in 1994, is the UK’s most comprehensive directory of planet-friendly goods, services, contacts and organisations. It is the best source of everything organic, natural, fair trade and green, containing all the information you need for eco-friendly shopping and one planet living.
Green Guide to Fashion & Beauty | September 2009 | £10.99 | ISBN 978-1-905731-54-1
360 pages, full colour, softback, printed on FSC-certified paper
This book is due to be published in September 2009 and is not yet available to buy.
To reserve a copy, send an email to greenfashion@greenguide.co.uk asking us to put a copy aside for you.
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