Resources

Large Shows for Fashion and Fabrics

www.premierevision.fr :- Premiere Vision. The main show for top end fashion designers and fabric retailers. Attanded by the buying teams of department stores and large brands

www.breadandbutter.com :- Bread and Butter, Europe. Street and urbanwear fashion main tradeshow. Held in different venues around Europe. 1st-3rd July 2009 it was in Berlin.

www.londonfashionweek.co.uk :- London Fashion Week. 18th - 23rd September 2009. Hottests designers of clothing, footwear, accessories and jewellery come together in a new location, Somerset House in London for the 25th anniversary of the event.

Top High Street Stores in UK

www.harrods.com :- World famous deparment store in London offering highly exclusive towels and dressing gowns from the world's finest fabrics.

www.selfridges.co.uk :- London's famous department store offering some of the most exlcusive brands on the high street.

www.johnlewis.com :- UK high street department store catering for quality across all departments including soft furnishings, towels, dressing gowns and fabrics.

Key Trade Associations for Quality and Reliability

www.soilassociation.org :- Association to promote organic farming methods for food and textiles. It supports farmers and growers by helping them market their products.

www.ocia.org :- One of the world's oldest and largest certification bodies for organic crop production.

www.vegansociety.comand www.vegsoc.org :- UK vegan and vegetarian societies who promote animal welfare through having healthier living environments. Also through the promotion of eating a vegetarian diet.

www.oeko-tex.com :- International organisation that certifies fabrics and textiles to be safe to wear for people by certification of the "Oeko-Tex Standard 100". Accreditation to this mark means that the clothing and textiles have been approved to be skin-friendly.

Popular Organic Brands

www.peopletree.co.uk :- Pioneers of fashion from fair trade in foreign countries by offering their own range of organic clothing. Promoting the better payment and safe working conditions of workers.

www.seasaltcornwall.co.uk :- Organic cotton clothing company who were the first UK fashion brand to have the Soil Association accreditation.

www.boden.co.uk :- Online since 1999, offering quality eco and ethical clothing for men, women and children online and through their own shops.

"Good" Online Networking Sites

www.twitter.com :- Fast becoming the place where eco organisations display short updates and pass on eco news. We have Twitter sites at www.twitter.com/bamboofabrics and www.twitter.com/bamboo_clothing.

www.ooffoo.com & www.ethical-junction.org :- UK online communities sharing ideas and products and linking together to bring ethical / eco friendly companies and people in touch with each other.

www.treehugger.com :- Popular US based eco website with a forum bringing up to date information on world eco news, events and issues.

"Good" Organisations Working on Issues of Climate Change

www.green-alliance.org.uk :- Green Alliance - Organisation set up to lobby the climate change issues at the political level in the UK and internationally.

http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk :- Act on CO2 - Government website working on educating about our carbon footprint and how to lower it. Complete with CO2 calculator.

www.greenpeace.org.uk :- Greenpeace - Environmental activist group looking to raise awareness of environmental, wildlife and sealife issues across the globe.

www.foe.co.uk :- Friends of the Earth - UK Organisation to bring awareness to environmental problems from lowering carbon emissions and offering environmental best practises.

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