Eco Fashion Week to hit Vancouver

01 Oct '12

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Vancouver will play host once again to Eco Fashion Week, October 16 – 19, 2012 at Robson Square. The event will bring together some of the world’s top ethical fashion designers for an inspiring week filled with exciting events, stylish fashion shows and informative seminars.

Celebrating its fifth season, Eco Fashion Week has become recognized as one of the leading sustainable fashion events in the industry. Founded by one of Canada’s fashion industry leaders, Myriam Laroche created Eco Fashion Week as a means to promote more responsible ways to design, manufacture, distribute and sell clothing.

“Eco Fashion Week is going into its second year and fifth season with an incredible program that we are all really proud about,” says Myriam Laroche, founder of Eco Fashion Week. “With a growing consciousness and consumer interest in sustainable clothing, we are poised to host our most successful event yet.”

Some of the events taking place during Eco Fashion Week include:

Eco Fashion Week Opening Event and Nicole Bridger Runway Show, October 16, 7:00 pm

The kick off to Eco Fashion Week this year promises to impress and inspire with an opening presentation by Dave Olson, locally based HootSuite’s VP of Community and social entrepreneur with his own line of eco-bags and clothing. Nicole Bridger will complete the evening launching her fall/winter 2012 collection titled “Kali” in a spell-bounding choreographed event by Heather Laura Gray.

Thrift Chic - Value Village Runway Show, October 17, 7:00 pm

Each year, 90 million pounds of clothing end up in landfill sites around the world. To help remove the stigma that is sometimes associated with purchasing second hand or thrift clothes, Value Village has partnered with Eco Fashion Week to create a special runway show. Stylists Nicolette Lang-Anderson, Tony Vu and Mimi Lauzon, founder of Fashionilla.com, will each be given a $500 budget to buy clothes and style 10 to 15 looks for what promises to be an impressive show.

68-Pound Challenge with Kim Cathers, October 17, 9:00 pm

Kim Cathers is returning to Eco Fashion Week in collaboration with Value Village to take on a 68-Pound Challenge. 68 pounds is the amount of clothing and textiles that the average North American throws away each year. Cathers will breathe life into her unorthodox romantic signature style by turning 68 pounds of dead stock into runway worthy fashion. The collection will be the closing act for an entire day of reworked and restyled inspired runway shows.

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