Hello Chic Vegans! This month my mission is focussed on creating a real silk that is also vegan. I figured if I can find enough empty cocoons, wild and discarded by their original inhabitant, this silk, originating from a waste product and not being from an animal kept captive or killed, would indeed be vegan. […]
London Fashion Week (and Green Washing)
Welcome once again to my post about vegan fashion and being a vegan couturier. Last month saw the biannual event of excess, decadence and extreme style meltdowns – London Fashion Week. I didn’t make a new collection this season, instead at Tammam, we made a film. Slow fashion lives longer (and looks better)….and darlings did you […]
Eco couturier meets The Vegetarian Butcher
For Vegan Food Month my post will be about something very important to me – meat! I have been a vegetarian for over 20 years and vegan for much of that, yet as a natural carnivore with constant cravings for flesh (and lover of meat substitute of all kinds), I was intrigued and couldn’t resist […]
Haute couture for the vegan fashionista
My mantra has always been “Saving the world – in style” and you don’t get more stylish than Haute couture. Paris has just hosted another Couture Fashion Week where the cream of fashion is showcased for the unutterably rich and insanely fashionable to lust over. Couture is about craftsmanship. The word “couture” is the french […]
Oh so fabulous vegan fashion goody bags – dahling!!
What is a fashion show without a goody bag, I hear you cry! Nothing! is indeed the answer, and when ever we put on an event we alway create the most covetable goody bags imaginable, not only do they contain the most fantastic luxurious eco and sustainable products out there, they are also 100% vegan. […]