Look at the fabulous detailing on the shoulder of this dress. Designed by Orsola de Castro – the designer of From Somewhere an ethical label. This picture is wonderful especially for the dress, you can see it best detailing from all angles.

It would be ludicrous to go to the Oscars without wearing diamonds, most of the time they steal the show! Luckily Livia wore pink diamonds that had been “ethically” mined. Calleija Jewellers make jewellery with Argyle pink diamonds and turn them into beautiful creations.

The Firth’s looking glamorous at the Oscar’s.

The Oscars are approaching Livia is busy looking for a dress suitable for the biggest award show in history.

Here is a beautiful dress designed by Ada Zanditon. She is an up and coming ethical fashion designer, who’s collection has just been on show at the London Fashion Week catwalk.

Ada Zanditon studied at the London College of Fashion and got a 1st class BA (hons) degree in Womenswear. Her debut collection was at the Vauxhall fashion Scout show in Sept 09. She is clearly a hugely talented fashion designer and it’s great to see her passion is ethical as well as fashion.

She also designed wonderful jewellery.

The 22nd of February starts the fairtrade fortnight. The theme this year is swap it. So swap your normal tea bags for fairtrade tea bags.

Many places are holding BIG swap tea parties and samplings. You can find out if there is anything going on in your area by looking on the fairtrade website.

I will be trading an average chocolate bar for dairy milk as they are now fairtrade  : )

Here Livia is with an array of beautiful coloured ethical dresses.

My favourite is the pinky red flowery dress on the end of the rail. I love the look of all the floaty material.

The little black ribbons looks lovely tying the straps into the halter neck.

Whilst watching the BAFTAS last night I saw Livia in the audience, it may have been the dress above but I’ll wait for conformation from Livia’s blog on Vogue.

I must admit that I like sugar in my tea, naughty I know !! When I came across this as an alternative I was really chuffed and ordered some for myself to use in my tea. (Maybe this will keep the dentist happy)

Not only is it completely natural using only fruit as the ingredients, making it a much healthier option. You can use in it loads of recipes, cakes, cookies, on toast or porridge and much much more. It’s diabetic and vegan friendly and GM free and gluten free. It’s also made in the UK.

It feels like fair trade products are sneaking in here, there and everywhere, which is fabulous. For example you can now get many fairtrade products from Boots, yep thats Boots the high street brand.

Not only can you get a varied  range of body butters, lip balms, body scrubs as pictured above, you can also get body wash and bath cream. They also do gift sets and travel sets.

Lush also a high street brand have a fair trade foot lotion. Hopefully the sales of this will encourage more of their products to become fair trade.

If you fancy something different you can find on the fairtrade website www.fairtrade.org.uk what other companies stock fair trade beauty products.

I will continue on searching  for more beautiful fair trade or ethical up and coming products.

Continuing the green carpet challenge, Livia is looking stunning in the bamboo suit by Linda Loudermilk. In previous posts I have talked about the benefits of bamboo and how cool it is.

I love the over sized collar and wide legged trousers. The silk bow tie around the waist gives it a gorgeous finish.

Livia finished the outfit with gold accessories, a borrowed clutch and earrings. Gives it that bit of glitz and glam just what the outfit needed for the premiere look.

Here are a couple of other outfits that were possibilities for the premiere.

Both dresses are beautiful ethically made items.

I have fallen in love with the jeans on the left, they are from  www.machja.com. The jacket in the picture on the right is from the same place.

The clothes on their website are really well designed. The clothes are simple and very wearable, a great quality in clothes.

Machja’s value are great, the call it respect which is very appropriate. Here is what they respect….

Respect for the Individual: We abide by Fair Trade principles, ensure ethical business practices with respect for human rights in the work place and guarantee quality, safe, and healthy working conditions to our producers.

Respect for the Environment: We use SKAL and Flo-Cert certified organic cotton and support the development of innovative ecological raw materials such as milk protein fiber.

Respect for the Consumer: We pay extreme attention to the quality and the style of all our products down to the slightest detail.

Keep checking here for more updates on new stock Machja have : )

b-fair are getting ready for the spring/summer collection coming in at the end of febuary. So they thought they would treat all of the customers by doing a mad but wonderful 80% off sale.

You can get this fabulous Komodo dora dress for only £12 – BARGAIN!!!!!

This men’s jacket is only £9.99. It’s made from a mix of hemp and cotton. A great example of using more sustainable materials.

Here are two celebrities that are very into ethical fashion. Livia as we all know is doing the green carpet challenge. She is talking to Lily Cole who has a knitwear range at North Circular an ethical brand. Lily is wearing very fashionable organic leather trousers. She looks fabulous in them but then it helps her legs are super long!

Livia’s dress is a gorgeous colour. The designer Sara Shepherd originally British, she now lives and works in LA. She dislikes disposable fashion and wants to create designs that will last, she also follows the rules of producing her clothes to the ethical and sustainable standards.

Colin Firth has been nominated for an Oscar ! The biggest of big rad carpet awards. I can not wait to see what Livia’s outfit will be : )