Yes I am indeed!

Many people in poorer countries go without shoes, Toms shoes want to spread awareness on the effects of this. Although food and shelter are the main concerns for people in these poorer countries, Toms shoes wants us to realise our feet are also a major issue. They came up with the ‘one day without shoes’ campaign to get their point across.

For more information go to www.onedaywithoutshoes.com.

I’ve been doing alot of online window shopping just recently, trying to work out what I want in my Spring wardrobe. There is alot of nautical themed items out there this season – which I LOVE!! It’s simple and stylish.

Red and white stripe 3/4 sleeve top from People Tree, Black skinny jeans from Monkee Genes and Blue Tangier Vegan classics from Toms Shoes.

This outfit would be perfect for a mild spring day.

A competition was created to design a t-shirt to get people to think, act and vote. The t-shirt has to have the words Think, Act, Vote on it. Think  Act Vote teamed up with Komodo (the ethical label) to get the design made up in the most carbon neutral way possible.

The winning design was show cased at Ascension flagship store in London last night.

Here is the winning design.

Jesson Yip designed the winning t-shirt, he did a version for the ladies and gents. Truely a wonderful design with a big inpact.

Here are a few of the one that didn’t quiet make it to the finals but are still amazing.

Hopefully this will gee on people to vote a little more.

I’ve added a few more items to my wardrobe since my last update. I love the fact I now have more ethical brands in my wardrobe too.

So far I have items from People Tree, Komodo, Pozu, Beyond skin, Kuyichi and Si:Su. I’m hoping to add a Annie Greenabelle dress, a pair of Where shoes and a Julia Smith dress to my wardrobe very soon.

I’ve just purchased 2 lovely dresses from Si:Su made from recycled material and they even use recycled thread and buttons, how wonderful. Not only are the dress beautiful and really well made, I got a very friendly service from them. It feel good to know you are dealing with a real person and not an automated system.

From b-fair I recently bought a Komodo Roxie dress in purple, I teamed this with a cropped leather jacket (which was a present and I will keep forever and ever and will pass onto my grandchildren!!) and some big curls and felt great in it. I also purchased a pair of navy Beyond Skin pumps and a pair of Po Zu’s Pep ankle boots.

I also bought my boyfriend a couple of Kuyichi Organic cotton t-shirts and he was pleasantly shocked at how soft the material is : )

Whilst doing my regular browsing on the Internet for ethical finds, I came across Mohop.com and was intrigued about the shoes.

A bit about the shoe it’s self. You pick a base, so that involved a wood type i.e. maple, cherry or walnut wood, then pick the height you want your wedge either, low, mid or high heel and lastly you get to pick the ribbon you want.

The shoes are environmentally friendly and all handmade by Annie Mohaupt.

This shoe is wonderful because you can tie the ribbon in so many ways, you can have so many different laces/ribbons, you never need to wear the shoe the same way twice. Saving you loads of money to spend on a holiday showing your brilliant shoes off!!! That’s what I’d do anyway.

Here are a few examples of how you can wear the shoes.

Not only is ethical fashion becoming more well known, the big supermarkets are getting in on the action. We have Tesco’s wanting to be the biggest supplier of fairtrade products including clothing and Mark’s and Spencer’s are aiming to be the greenest company around.

Mark’s and Spencer’s have set there aim at all there food, clothing and home items are sourced from sustainable or ethical sources, this is all hoped to be in place by 2020.

Tesco’s were inspired when they saw clothes at Estethica made by the ethical company From Somewhere to start making clothes from recycled clothes, they will be teaming with designer who also design for From Somewhere.

This is great news for the anyone who wishes to shop ethical but doesn’t feel they can afford it as prices have said to be starting at £16 for a dress. Hopefully the big food giants won’t put any of the little business out of the race by such low prices.

It’s another triumph for the ethical world for sure : )

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.