Your Marriage May Last Forever But Your Dress Doesn’t Have To
The trend towards low-cost "throw away" fashion has resulted in a stratospheric increase in sales. However, according to Ecouterre the results have not been...
Trying on Zero Waste Fashion
By Jessica Borges, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
Fashion design is an art, and just like other art forms such as writing, cooking, and painting, you need to scrap the first drafts and unruly pieces before producing your masterpiece. But with these scraps come a never-ending contribution to landfills and further pollution to our environment. This awareness has fueled designers in the fashion industry to attempt “zero waste fashion.”
Uniting Women Survivors of Rwandan Genocide Under Same Sky
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
You are terrified and frantic. You cram yourself, with six other women, into a three-foot by four-foot bathroom in...
The Fess Parker Wine Country Inn and Spa in Los Olivos California is the...
By Nancy and James Chuda founders of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
Step into paradise. Once you enter the Fess Parker Inn...
Circa AdVintage: A New Way To Shop Green
By Nancy Chuda, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World
I took a break over the holidays and went to Florida to visit family and friends. I packed light. And I was glad I did, having discovered a true treasure: A prestigious consignment store called Circa Vintage in Tequesta, Florida (near Jupiter) in The Village Shops on U.S. Highway 1. It’s an upscale, glamorous consignment boutique of current designer and vintage fashions – and shoppers are flocking to it! If you’re in the area you won't want miss it. Fortunately, you don't have to fly all the way to Jupiter -- you can shop here online.
Owner Carol Wright was just twelve when she recognized that collecting old dresses could someday bring in green – which in the world of high-end vintage means big money.
Nancy’s Organic Kitchen: Home for the Holidays
When it comes to the holidays I am always looking for an excuse to make something different.
Chemical Creepers: A New Light Shed On Sunscreen
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Imagine if the very thing you used and depended on to protect you from skin cancer was capable of exacerbating the growth of epidermal lesions and tumors. Well that’s what the Environmental Working Group claims may be the case. A recent study shows that retinyl palmitate, a synthetic form of vitamin A, is carcinogenic on skin exposed to the sun.
Taking a Fashionable High Road
By Molly Cimikoski, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Here at LuxEco Living there are lots of things we like to indulge in (I write this moments after...
Sex And The City’s Eco-Friendly Fashion
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
The Sex and the City ladies each seem to have a sixth sense: fashion. As the world continues to grow eco-conscious,...
The Top Ten Common Misconceptions about Thrift Stores, Debunked
"Even though I’m kinda broke right now, my closet’s full of leather, cashmere and silk -- all thanks to my favorite thrift stores." By Mary Elizabeth Williams-Villano, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Thinking about tying the knot? How to wed or dread the high costs of...
When Jim and I took our vows on October 6th 1984 we had a beautiful wedding. The ceremony and reception were held at the Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles California.
Natural Beauty- Affordable Easy Ways to Achieve Glowing Skin
By Sahar Ghaffari, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
The cosmetic market today is saturated with thousands of products that claim to tighten, moisturize, and smooth your skin; but usually these claims come with a hefty cost, artificial ingredients, and not necessarily the results you were hoping for. However, the answers to some of your skin problems could be secretly hidden right in your very own kitchen.
Dreaming of Celestial Love- An Eco Fashion Love Story
By Dow-Yung Kou, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Sometimes a dream can go a long way. This cannot be more true for the 3 designers featured in this article. Carrie Parry, Emily Factor, and Deborah Lindquist all at one point had a dream to create responsibly, and it was through their imagination and will power that they have created successful and beautiful lines that are trendsetting not just for the Eco-Community but for the world.
Hats off to history on Derby Day
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
What's a hat got to do with it?
The Kentucky...
What Do You Keep In Your Hatbox ?
I love the idea of finding the best vintage designed places to shop. And American made for sure at The TeaBerry Cottage.
PHOTOS: The Green Youth Movement does LA Fashion Week
By Shelton Cheeks, LuxEco Editorial Assistant and Fashion Stylist
On October 16th, Los Angeles Fashion Week forged its alliance with the Green (R)evolution by featuring a showcase of designers, produced in part by The Green Youth Movement, or otherwise known as GYM. This organization, headed by the beautiful Chole Mills and Vice President Ema Gersh, is 600 members strong nationwide. They are dedicated to educating the younger generation about environmental awareness, promoting common sense approaches to adapt an eco-friendly lifestyle and participating in events much like LA Fashion Week to amplify their message.
First Lady Michelle Obama Sends Green Message with Vintage Black Dress
By Mary Elizabeth Williams-Villano, LuxEcoLiving Editorial Assistant
"In donning this well-preserved classic dress, I believe the First Lady is not merely paying homage to a long-forgotten American designer. She's accessorized this exquisite black lace cocktail dress with an understated Green brooch."
Fashion Styles Recycled
By Dow-Yung Kou, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Vintage is a very affordable eco-alternative, because it is giving clothes a second life, while reducing the amount of waste both during production and post-consumption. What it boils down to is good old fashion recycling. An average American throws out 65 pounds of clothing a year, and cumulatively as a country we add 11.8 million tons of clothes to landfills a year.
Empowerment of Women In Africa: Francine LeFrak Fortifies A Stealth Vision Fashion Forward
By: Francine LeFrak, Founder of Same Sky, a company that handcrafts glass bead bracelets made in Rwanda and LuxEco Advocate
My dream is for the empowerment of women and eradication of poverty. In 1994, 1 million people were murdered in 100 days in Rwanda. I spent eight and a half years trying to produce a film about this massacre-- I wanted to tell the story of this genocide. Ultimately, the film never got produced. I was still left with the passion to shed light on this important story. By that time, my focus had also turned to the empowerment of women and girls. It was with the mission of helping the women in Africa that Same Sky was born.
Jewelry Paris style: La Suite 240 has it all
By Nancy and James Chuda founders of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World
Luxury for Less. The most beautiful authentic jewelry, custom designed, one...
rstBrands In Style In Harmony With The Environment:LuxEcoLiving’s Pick for Best Outdoor Furniture
rstBrands offers a variety of sustainable handmade outdoor furniture and utilizes one of the most important sun shields in the development of their products. The patented Sunbrella fabrics who I might add made environmental responsibility a priority decades before the "green" movement.
Leading A Green Movement, One Well-Heeled Eco Step At A Time
By Rachel Sarnoff, Writer and Founder of EcoStiletto.com and MommyGreenest.com and LuxEco Advocate
I’m a journalist by trade and I’d been writing about fashion and...
Chemical Creepers: Don’t Wash Your Liver In The Sink!
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Living Editorial Assistant
The largest organ in, or should I say on, our bodies…the epidermis. It is defined by the Online...
Interview with Sophie Uliano of “Gorgeously Green”
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Sophie Uliano is the guru of all things green that coincide with feeling and looking gorgeous. An advocate of eco-friendly living without the sacrifice of beauty and glamour, she is the New York Times best-selling author of “Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life,” “The Gorgeously Green Diet,” and “Do It Gorgeously: How to Make Less Toxic, Less Expensive, and More Beautiful Products.” Her breadth of knowledge is tremendous, ranging from non-toxic skin care, to gardening, to eco-friendly home restoration.
Women Who Walk The Walk and Own The Talk: Chloe Rose Lattanzi and Olivia...
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
Santa Ynez California
Photo credits James Chuda for LuxEcoLiving
Ugg! It's...
The Lead Carpet: Who’s going to lose?
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Health World
Lead in her Lipstick? Not Meryl! Not in real life. But...
The Orchid Boutique has the best bathing suits in the world
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
Making Waves Over 60
It takes guts! You stand...
Berti Borrell Designs a Green Hat to Envy
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor-in-Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World
Have you ever had a center stage moment when you...
The Frightening Truth Behind Cosmetics
By Alanna Brown, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Have you ever wondered how your shampoo fulfills its magnificent claims to give you “shinier,” “sleeker,” “frizz freer,” “blonder,” “brunetter,” (…the list goes on) hair? Annie Leonard, author of The Story of Stuff and The Story of Bottled Water, wondered this of her personal favorite, Pantene Pro-V. She looked at the ingredients on the bottle post-lather and thought, “Sodium laureth sulfate? Tetrasodium EDTA? Methylisothiazolinone? What is this stuff?” After doing some research, she found the truth behind her shampoo was disheartening, to say the least. In her most recent short film installment, The Story of Cosmetics, Annie Leonard tells us how it’s not just shampoo, but many personal care products that contain toxic ingredients. From sunscreen to lipstick, there are disease-causing chemicals in our daily product regimen responsible for cancer, learning disabilities, and much more.
Chloe Lattanzi’s Art and Beauty: A Strategy for Supermodel Sanity and Success
Chloe Rose Lattanzi for LuxEcoLiving What does it take to become a supermodel? Unlike other professions that captures and allures masses of media,...
Jose Eber's secret art for sexy hair: Carefree, Unstructured and Red Carpet Success
By Nancy and James Chuda founders of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World
LuxEcoLiving
"The hair cut that I'm most proud of, to tell the truth,...
Eco-Fashion Trends Over the Years
by Jessica Borges, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
As you’re staring blankly into your “so last year” closet full of drab clothing that you just can’t bear to...
In Defense of Plastic Bags? Say What?
by Linsley Oaks, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Green is in and it is here to stay. Eco-friendly products have blossomed on the fashion scene and are...
My Top Ten Thrift Store Finds
By Mary Elizabeth Williams-Villano, LuxEco Editorial Assistant and author of the Resplendent Repurposing series
I found a black leather unisex blazer from the Gap: $20.00 at Goodwill in Van Nuys. Someone recently told me he owns the identical blazer. He paid $300.00 for it. by Mary Elizabeth Williams-Villano, LuxEco Editorial Assistant
Empowering Women Under The ‘Same Sky’
Yes, the bracelets made of delicately rounded glass beads that look like raindrops dripping around the wrist are stunning. I'm like a squirrel with...
