2007 Archives: Lizzie Parker Gree, Eco-Conscious Clothing
Oh we’re all about good fashion karma, which is Lizzie Parker’s tagline. In fact, a funny thing happened on the way to becoming EcoStilettoistas. We used to be the kind of girls who couldn’t make a trip to Target for toilet paper without cruising through the panty aisle and picking up a few pieces probably made by small children in India. Now we try to stay away from fabrics made from plastics and conventional cotton, both staples of the low-budget fashion fix. And although we’ve been known to pick up a few cashmere sweaters by Isaac Mizrahi this season (It’s goat hair, right? How brown can that be?), we try to stop and think before we buy—even if something is only $19.99.
So Lizzie Parker, who showed at Portland’s all-green Fashion Week, was a welcome revelation, what with her awesome collection of lounge-inspired clothing made of bamboo and organic cotton. Yes the abfab Favorite T will set you back three times what that same long-sleeved, long-torso-ed basic would cost you in conventional cotton. But it’s ten-times as soft and cut to the absolute perfect fit—and it even comes in a color called “smut” which just plain makes us giggle.
“Buy one good piece, and you don’t need many others.” Grandma said that for years, but we forgot about it in our early days of independence, translated into the overwhelming need for more and more material goods (read: clothes). Time to get back to the good stuff, one perfect piece at a time.
Thanks, Grandma.
