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"Mother Told Me Not To Touch Garbage" and Other Reasons To Make Recycled Art in Tel Aviv
(“Secret Artist” and his “Velvet on the Ground” photo at the Tel Aviv Carmel Market recycled art installation. Photo credit Asaf Ravid. ) A few weeks ago, on a hot Tel Avivian Saturday, I visited the closed Shuk Ha Carmel (the Carmel Market) on the occasion of the Cucumber Season exhibition. I usually really try […]
Lebanese Eco Designer Ziad Ghanem Creates Recycled Couture
London fashion week show viewers may have been shocked earlier this week when London-based Lebanese designer Ziad Ghanem’s line came down the runway. Initiated by a video introduction asking the viewers to break free from consumerism and follow their own hearts, repeating the line “I lost my head the day I found my heart,” the […]
Is the Financial Crisis Making It Harder to go Organic? No Sweat Apparel in Trouble
With the financial crisis effecting more and more people every day and spending becoming significantly more conscious, many consumers are choosing to trim the fat. Unfortunately, this often means becoming more dollar conscious and less eco conscious. Greener choices – such as organic, shade-grown, or local – often cost a little bit more, and so […]
Blogger Yuli Ziv On Green Trends and Sustainable Designs
(Yuli Ziv, founder of MyItThings, cofounder of the Style Coalition) I first talked to Yuli Ziv when she was in the middle of a paparazzi storm. It was Fashion Week in New York and she was just about to enter the Justin Timberlake show. Walking over to her website MyItThings, the Tel Aviv native, now […]
Guy Lougashi’s Dumpster Diving Designs Inspired By Buttons, Baskets and Brakes
There, the people mastered Lougashi's techniques of weaving baskets from paper -- a process which requires special know-how, such as how to glue the paper, to achieve a desired aesthetic.
No Sweat Apparel's Organic Ts Help Bring Peace to the Middle East
We’ve already covered a few types of organic clothing here on Green Prophet – from organic baby clothes to organic designer clothes for women and even organic cotton tailored suits for men. But this is something entirely different. Because although we believe that shared concern about the environment can lead to greater peace in the […]
10 Sustainable Israeli Designers
Lookout world. 10 sustainable designers from Israel
Katanchic Makes Chic Organic Clothes for Green Babies
Us Green Prophets believe that green education should start from a young age, and have already addressed ways that little ones can be eco conscious. Sometimes it’s recycling competitions at schools, other times it’s reading environmentally conscious children’s books, and sometimes it’s about what these little ones are wearing. Eco-Mum has already sung the praises […]
ReUse: An Evening of Eco-Art in Central Jerusalem
Next week, fans of eco-art in Jerusalem won’t have to travel all the way to the eco-arts village in the Ella Valley for a fix. Instead, some of Israel’s finest eco-art will be on exhibition in the heart of Jerusalem on August 12th, in the Merkaz Hamagshimim community center (located near Emek Refaim, and where […]
Skins Footware is Skinny on the Resources
Imagine being able to buy ten pairs of shoes and only spend the resources (both natural and financial) necessary for half that many. Sounds like every eco chic woman‘s dream, right? Eco chic or not, every woman knows that you need those perfect going out shoes for evenings, elegant ballet flats for the office, sneakers […]
Bagir's Recycled Plastic Bottle Suit Gives New Meaning to Euro-Trash
Israeli clothing company Bagir outfits about 1 in 6 UK men. A fraction of those men are set to become more chic with Bagir’s Eco-Gir, a suit made from 100% recycled materials, 30 PET plastic bottles. The company is also set to become the first in the world to label its products with a carbon […]
Natalie Portman’s Vegan Feet
Natalie Portman has taken up design… big deal! Another hot actress designing clothes… This actually is a big deal. Sizzling its way through all the hottest fashion blogs is the actress’s Vegan footwear! In previous posts we talked about a skirt that can save your life (Yael Mer’s evacuation skirt), a patch that can save your […]
Shay Alkalay makes sticky stain coverups for stained clothes
Israeli designer Shay Alkalay is a man modeled after our own green heart. And with his cheeky invention, you will never have to say 'out, out, damn spot,' ever again.