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October 16th, 2007 — Developement, Spring Summer 08, eco-fashion, eco-friendly from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
Let’s be clear about pibiones eco-friendly claims:
Manufacturing techniques. All the fabrics used are hand produced on traditional looms, this tend to use less energy. Every factory and workshop has a few fabrics on display, weaving is generally done to order. As well as the classical styles, fabrics can be done in any design and in any colour a client submits.
Production processes. Fabrics and handbags are hand produced in ethically managed factories – workshops are entirely managed by women: all the companies are inspected regularly by government officials to check compliance to European legislation.
Recycled linings and care bags. The Pibiones handbag linings are made of beautiful ends of rolls and off cuts recycled new fabrics from Sardinian textiles factories. These fabrics would usually end up in skips and landfill, to be incinerated.
Local natural wool. These fibres come from organic farmed sheep (conventional farming is a huge consumer of non-renewable fossil fuels. Sardinian farmers have been using organic farming for generations, this tend to use less energy).
Wools dyed locally with Sardinian plants. Pibiones exclusive ‘luxury eco’ line of accessories also uses sustainable yarns made with Sardinian sheep wool dyed locally with Sardinian plants.
Nowadays, majority of the coloured cottons and linen (produced with sustainable production methods, particularly by traditional organic farming) are dyed chemically. Workshops are using yarns colored with Indanthren – dystar (on their website): “Indanthren dyes do not contain heavy metals. This ensures safe handling, meets international ecological standards for dyed textiles and minimises the contamination of production effluent”.
Pibiones is co-operating with local workshops to promote the traditional weaving methods and dying techniques that have been almost abandoned. I am are currently evaluating the cost effectiveness of sourcing organic cotton, to be dyed locally with Sardinan plants and used for future collections. Pibiones eco-friendly handbag ranges create new meanings and usages for traditional Sardinian textiles. This interest is reinforced by a desire to preserve as well as advance craft skills that are at risk of disappearing due to globalisation & mass-produced designs.
Continue reading → Pibiones eco-friendly handbags. The eco-claims.
April 28th, 2007 — Developement, Events, eco-fashion, eco-friendly from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
Oh no, too late! I really hope, I can get a place at this extraordinary event starting on Monday, Is green the new black? At the London College of Fashion
http://www.arts.ac.uk/34329.htm. I just discovered about it through
Style Will Save Us web site. I really would like to to meet Virginia Rowe, the editor of the online Eco-magazine. The all event is dedicated to Eco-fashion….the new trend. I
could try with my old
LCF student card!
Continue reading → Is green the new black?
April 28th, 2007 — Design, Developement, Spring Summer 07, luxury handbags from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
While looking at the Spring Summer 2008 predictions, I decided to “shop” around to “choose” my favorites luxury handbags for the Spring Summer 2007, the current season. I am sure you have already purchased your SS07 handbags, but I must look at the current season purses to predict the future collections. The Autumn Winter 2007 2008 collections are being produced as I am writing, I had a look at those too! I think is a little early…in the year… to talk about the fall winter 08.
The B bag from Fendi. This SS07 the most wanted bag, has been produced in silver. I must confess now! I am a big Fendi admirer. I like this luxury company and Carla of course… (one of the five sisters who run the empire, “loved by the press”) I had the pleasure to meet while working for the company.
Continue reading → Spring Summer 07 bags - My favorites
April 18th, 2007 — Design, Developement, Spring Summer 07, luxury, luxury handbags from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
The nice weather has influenced even my new window display at
www.pibiones.com! For the Spring Summer 2008, I am going to use more corals from Alghero to decorate some of the Pibiones handbags
Continue reading → The new virtual window display.
April 16th, 2007 — Design, Developement, Moodboard, Spring Summer 08, luxury, luxury handbags from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
I am already thinking about the next spring summer 2008 fashion and I have just started to taste the spring summer 2007. I looked at the
SS08 leather and accessories trends a and predictions. Le
Cuir - Paris and Premier Vision. I don’t remember if I mentioned a very useful prediction site worth checking:
http://www.fashiontrendsetter.com/content/color_trends.html. The weather is so nice, and even my
mood boards are affected by the summery weather. As previously posted, I normally gather and display my inspiration for the collections on MOOD BOARDS, another design moodboard example that explains the attachment to my native Sardinia.
Here are some of the many colours for SS2008.
Continue reading → Spring Summer 2008 Coral Moodboard
