With the Eco-friendly craze on the rise, many fashions are being labeled "green" in order to jump on the bandwagon. That's when we as consumers need to sit back and decide for ourselves how "Eco-friendly" a brand or handbag truly is. If you're going to make a purchase and want to use your buying power to help the environment, you want to make sure you're doing just that. As an Eco-friendly fashionista, I'm here to help you skip a step! First and foremost leather is extremely toxic to our environment and a huge contributor to the depletion of our natural resources. Many people believe we use the animal skin and then use the meat for food and voila... there's no waste! This is completely false and no one explains it better than my favorite Eco-friendly shoe designer, Olsen Haus:
"The livestock/leather industry is the largest contributor to global warming, land devastation, environmental pollution, usage of valuable natural resources and water supply contamination. The leather industry is more harmful to the environment than the textiles, medicine, fertilizer, and paper industries. It is a 1.5 billion dollar industry that directly relates to abuse and death of 100 million animals from factory farms and slaughter houses." Check out more of her Eco-friendly philanthropy at www.olsenhaus.com.
That's where Matt & Nat comes in as a New York based vegan designer who balances fashion and social responsibility. They're COMPLETELY green and to some extent, have even taken green handbags to another level with their vegan leather and recycled fabrics. Their new "21 water bottle initiative" use linings made from recycled water bottles which also lists the number of bottles inside the bag! Join the authentic "green" inner circle with a Matt & Nat handbag today!
And because I know every green fashionista loves a bargain as well, check out the MATT & NAT sample sale starting Tomorrow, Tuesday November 17th
at 10AM! For details visit Matt & Nat
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi
