Co-host Marissa Feinberg of Green Leaders Global and designer Linda Loudermilk, who was honored that evening, hug on the red carpet.

On June 12th in New York, Fashion Delivers hosted its second annual Pay It Fashion Forward event at the club M2, a space once called Crobar and Mansion, in the news this week after Beyonce decided to cancel an appearance there at the last minute, costing owner Joey Morrissey $100.000. 

Over 600 guests attended, some in the VIP balcony treated to tasty octopus confections by ilili, while the rest munched on organic potato chips in the gallery below.

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Not often do we focus on world environmental news at In The Loop, but today it is a must. Actress Q’orianka Kilcher, who starred as Pocahontas in The New World, has been joined by celebrities Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Alex Meraz, Jesse Garcia (Quinceañera), and Esai Morales to expose the recent legislation of Peru’s government to sell off the rainforest for billions to foreign business.

Peruvian President Alan Garcia has passed laws under “fast track” authority he received from the congress, facilitating the Free Trade Agreement with the US and granting land rights to international interests in the hopes of making Peru more economically “competitive.”

The Amazonian people, living from the bounty of the land, are aware that mining and logging will leave the land polluted and uninhabitable. Roadblocks were forged with tree trunks and boulders and guarded by thousands of native people with wooden spears. When Peruvian police forces entered the area near the city of Bagua on Friday, clashes with the natives left at least 22 tribespeople and 11 officers dead. Amazonians took some members of the police hostage and President Garcia has declared a State of Emergency in the region.

Colin Farrell urged the public to action in a recent statement, “The quest to expand the oil, mining and logging industry will have a catastrophic effect on these peoples and all of us.  An old story, except this time the rich get richer and the poor are left without the sacred ground which is, in moral truth, most certainly theirs. They are the ones who protect and defend the rain forest for all of us and all generations to come. Something must be done to halt this preventable chain of events. Qorianka and her team along with many representatives are giving voice to the disenfranchised.  Support them, in any way you can…”

Watch the heartfelt protest in front of the Peruvian Embassy in Los Angeles  and sign the petition asking Alan Garcia to negotiate peacefully with the indigenous people of the Amazon.

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What is a green supermodel? We all know what a supermodel is. But what makes a model green? Too often we forget modeling is a form of salesmanship. Models are hired to sell product. Companies associate their product with a particular look to grow their brand. That’s how models who achieve recognition in the marketplace warrant higher fees. Which is how modeling agencies make their percentage. Like best selling books, successful models carry their agency, pay for the scouting of new faces and the testing of new models.

With recognition comes responsibility. A model can quickly lose her reputation with the client if she’s caught doing or saying the wrong thing. Which is why there are unwritten rules and unspoken guidelines in the industry. Bookers do their best to keep fashion models from going off the rails. Not an easy task considering young women with the intensity the camera loves are often a handful. Otherwise brands suffer when a model is discovered to have worked in the sex industry or busted on a DUI. It’s very tricky business. A song and dance that has been happening every since photography started being used as a means of publicity.

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The Republicans want Obama to fail because, or so they claim, they fear socialism… Isn’t socialism a form of cooperation versus capitalism based on competition? Who wrote true socialism is impossible as long as any form of capitalism persists in this world, de facto making socialism impossible? So the right wing shouldn’t have anything to worry about.

Coming out from a month long of Earth Day events, dreams of Terra reborn in a tanking economy are bitter sweet. If there’s a vision, where’s the cooperation, as it would seem each fair or event acts in isolation of each other. From electric cars to organic farming passing through green electronics, where’s the direction home?

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I guess that’s why they say: ”I love you to death.” I just got through writing about how I love magazines, and how the new sustainable trends in fashion are changing the way we are going to reinvent our media… but this afternoon, on the newsstand, appears this aberration. At a time when launching new magazines seem like corporate suicide, Conde Nast UK sends out this absurd love note to the world and falls flat on its face.

I couldn’t have imagined a worse way to miss the mark, to be so far out it demonstrates that the fashion strata hasn’t learned a single thing from the green fashion revolution that’s taking over the hearts and minds of young girls and women all over the world, who have come to realize their close knit relationship to everything they love, buy and wear… the world they live in. Women who have learned to care.

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Fashion photography is not immune from the economic downturn. Its importance in our industry can’t be overlooked. Designers depend on editorial fashion photography to bring their creations to the attention of the buying public. Magazines depends on fashion photography to give their titles allure and status. The more luxurious the image, the more affluent the demographic attracting advertisers. It’s a mystical ring of fire.

Fashion photography does a lot more. It molds careers. Fashion photography takes young women with beauty, ambition and intelligence, gives them a chance to shine in the public arena. Many of our most talented performers have come from humble backgrounds as fashion models. It’s the perfect Cinderella story.

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The Guardian Angels in desperate need of a green fashion make-over!

And that’s when it dawned on me looking at Sunday’s New York Post, yet another story about Lindsay Lohan acting out for the cameras, giving a performance, on the stage of life, playing with the paparazzi, knowing full well, fully conscious, that all these images will once again splash all across the globe in gossip rags. She’s not doing anything different, consciously or not, than what Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin did in the 60’s, except in her case, her cause, is her, nothing else.

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A few weeks ago on December 11th, I had the pleasure to attend the opening of a sustainable textile sample library in Manhattan. C.L.A.S.S. (Creativity, Lifestyle And Sustainable Synergy) is located inside the Allsteel showroom, at 233 Park Avenue South, and 19th Street, on the second floor.

There had once been talk of setting up such a sample library at the Fashion Institute of Technology, but director Valerie Steele had committed her entire budget to the museum.  C.L.A.S.S. is co-founded by Giusy Bettoni and Sandy MacLennan. They have two other locations, in London and Milan.

The panel was hosted by Barbara Kramer of Designers & Agents and included New York consultant, Bahar Shahpar, model and eco-consultant Summer Rayne Oakes, BerBrand founder Dr. Emanuele Bertoli, Elinor Averyt, Founder of L.E.A.F. (Labeling Ecologically Approved Fabrics), Sergio Sessini, President of CADICAGROUP USA, Inc, and Paolo Garotta, a Project Manager of Relight.

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