Someone said “Let’s have a fashion show,” just like Mickey Rooney in Strike Up the Band! Next thing you know, the whole town of Ridgefield, Connecticut, breaking rank with the Stepford Wives, is rising to the occasion. The Green ROCK Inn offered their quaint little suburban get away, but the fire marshall got wind of all the people who were coming, so the venue moved to Nature’s Temptations, the town’s brand new health food store, which couldn’t have been a better idea.

Starre Vartan of Eco-Chick was signing her book at Go Practically Green, also brand new. She assembled a wide selection of sustainable fashion designer clothing. Shine, the local Aveda salon, asked a few friends to strut down the runway… among the Sicilian olive oil and the 7-grain cereal boxes. Brian Clark Howard spun the sounds.

Starre tells me the peices were from from Alchem1st, Under the Canopy, Kelly B, Vuori, Doie, Jonano, Levi’s E-collection,  Sharkah Chakra, Kyumi, Edun, Pip Squeak Chapeau, Verde Rocks!, Schroeder Falzone, and Vintage Pucci. (Yikes, I don’t want to link all these… Google them!)

People from all around, including the organizers of the upcoming EcoFest , who came all the way from the Lower East Side, made the trek to join organic farmers, solar installers, movie producers, anti-nuclear protesters, moms and daughters.

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