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January 15th, 2008 — Autumn Winter 2008, Spring Summer 08, news, tips from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
Please accept my late wishes for a very Happy and Prosperous 2008.
I would like to start the New Year with a textile that I recently discovered in an old wooden chest at my parents’ home in Sardinia. It has been in the family from 1814: my great, great grandmother drew the designs and prepared dyes from local plants. She dyed the wool from my granddad sheep for her own work. She created a bedspread that remained in the family for few generations.
It’s the time to review the past and look forward to achieving more in the coming years. I will continue to work hard in the coming years to avoid the disappearance of the Sardinian hand-woven fabrics. For a designer from a small and distant village in Sardinia, my first objective has always been to preserve as well as advance craft skills that are at risk of disappearing due to globalisation & mass-produced designs. Serving as an ambassador for Sardinian crafts it is an honour and a privilege. I want to thank the numerous supporters of the press and on-line fashion review sites. I also want to express my greatest appreciation to the numerous fans, friends, and family who have encouraged me in this task.
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October 31st, 2007 — Design, Moodboard, Spring Summer 08 from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
One of my moodboards, for spring summer 2008 fashion. Pibiones handbag collections 2008 are inspired by nature: the sun, emerald green transparent sea and unspoiled white sandy beaches, the colours and the intense perfume of Mediterranean wild plants. The concept behind the collections is back to a basic life. Eco-chic with strong emphasis on sophistication and elegance.
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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.
October 10th, 2007 — Autumn Winter 2008, Spring Summer 08, eco-fashion, eco-friendly, trends from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
The new Pibiones Spring Summer 2008 colour moodboard is the perfect way to start talking about the AW 08-09 fashion handbag new trends.
The handbag prediction for Autumn Winter fashion 2008 are clear, the next seasons are going to be focused on environmental friendly materials and natural materials. Fluffy wools are going to be the next new big thing on the handbags. The shapes are going to be simple and sophisticated with a little gothic influence.
This new idea for the next Winter season is to try out materials in place of leather. Searching for and experimenting with new materials has become the key issue in the accessories industry as well as many others, partly driven by the increasing trend towards “eco-friendly” and “ethical” products.
In the next years more designer in search of inspiration are going to take in account ecological problems, safeguarding the dignity of workers and fighting the exploitation of the very young. This new trend, and I hope is not only a fashion phase, will also rise production costs and creates competitive disadvantages. Waiting for this predictions to become reality in the next few seasons, we have to pay more attention to that segment of consumers who are aware of this problems and are willing to spend a little extra for their sustainable products.
More wide-range informational campaigns should be aimed at the “fast fashion” consumers, certainly the fast-buying comes with an appealing price tag but low prices are made possible by exploitation of labour and natural resources. The top 10 tips for greening your wardrobe from the
Ecologist (for more green issues):
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Shop Smart
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Buy high quality clothes made to last
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Look for organic or eco fabrics
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Say no to sweatshop labour
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Be a clothes connoisseur
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Wash Green
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Make do and mend
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Do-it-yourself style
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Shop with a voice
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Join a campaigning group
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October 8th, 2007 — Events, Handbags, Spring Summer 08, eco-fashion, eco-friendly from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
I love this purse from
Allison Teich, the bright clutch is decorated with a vintage wooden buckle. The fabric is 60’s mod and the lining is hot pink. I could not go to see these
eco-purses at the
Esthetica fashion spring summer 2008 exhibition in London, I can never get an invitation for the show. May be next time
somebody can send me one!!!! I had the chance to see it at the Terra
Plana shop in
Covent Garden, London. From their website: “
aGaiN NYC limited-edition handbags are made from vintage, rescued and
repurposed materials and fabrics. Made in Brooklyn, with part of the profit made from sales donated to environmental charities”.
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September 27th, 2007 — Spring Summer 08, eco-fashion, eco-friendly, news from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
Sonya Kashmiri was showing her luxury environmentally-friendly collection at The London Fashion Week Estethica Exhibition (Fashion Collections Spring Summer 2007 edition). Since I haven’t been to the show, I did some desk research (googling!). Vegetable tan leathers from Portugal with organic cotton linings are used throughout her collection. Non leather components in Sonya’s handbags are kept to a minimum, recycled leather are also used for structural support. This fantastic eco-handbag is available at the
Natural Store with a £250 price tag.
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September 25th, 2007 — Events, Spring Summer 08, eco-fashion, eco-friendly from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
The Estethica space within the Exhibition at the London Fashion Week, devoted to the eco-sustainable “high fashion” for eco-designers to showcase their collections. They have been selected according to these eco-fashion categories: FAIR TRADE, ORGANIC PRODUCTION, RECYCLING. I must say that I haven’t been there (not easy to get invited!), but I still would like to visit or exhibit there next season for Autumn-Winter 2008-2009 fashion collection. How can you apply? “Simple”, send back the questionnaire that you can download at the London Fashion Week website.
I will send back the questionnaire with details on Label (ethical principles, materials, production and transportation) to @fromsomewhere.co.uk, than I will let you know about the result. It is common knowledge that to be considered for the exhibition you have to be loved by the press first, but not harm in trying. The eco-handbag designers selected for the Spring Summer Fashion Collection 2007 were: Again NY and Sonya Cashmiri. I will be looking at them in detail soon.
- Ebony Fashion Fair reminiscenses Ebony Fashion Fair is coming to town again. If you want to see a good show, very electric, by all means go. The fashions are wonderful; the music is wonderful; the strutting is wonderful; the audience is dressed to the hilt... There was a year, the first year I went.........
Continue reading → Slowing down fashion collections for Spring Summer 2008
September 15th, 2007 — Spring Summer 08, eco-fashion, eco-friendly, luxury handbags, news from antonello @ Luxury Handbags Blog - All about exclusive luxury handbags and eco-luxury handbags
My sustainable luxury handbag world. I re-posted this entry because my blog is changing, it is only natural to concentrate on the eco-friendly luxury handbag market.
Luxury handbags are often made of fine materials with very simple workmanship, it is difficult for the average luxury buyer to perceive the actual value of workmanship. So what the consumer knows about quality? Not often the quality perceived by the manufacturers coincide with that of the consumers. Let’s take hand-woven fabrics for example, any imperfection for me means the fabric is hand-woven and adds value to the fabric. It means that that fabric is a work of art, made with love and passion. For the consumer, on the other end are defects. Luckily this is changing, the new trend “New Authentic” generation is tired of seeing the same sort of fashion, knowing where the item is made helps (at least for me!) to emphasise its luxury status.
Fashion has always been based on skills, craftsmanship and natural resources.
Now disposable fashion (clothing and accessories are worn twice and then thrown away) has made us forget: who, how and the costs of “fast fashion”. Handbag making is become more about the label than the expertise, many companies have seen and increased pressure from investors. No more highest quality but the highest profit.
Luxury houses have been concentrating on new consumers abandoning the traditional customer, now many of the designers are trying to gain them back. Is this a sign of change? Expect the new fashion collections for spring summer 2008 and autumn winter 2007 to have a bit of a retro touch.
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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
