Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Bee Askin

This is more on tag of war between shows and which fashion could make it more on the runway. It has been along rest for me after the Eurovision song contest. I think it will be more than two months then since I made my last post. This year fashion GREEN reveals eco-fashion designer Erika Ketelhohn as Bee Askin. Her new one is a combination of her husband's surname and the industrious insect that has inspired her work.

As an eco-designer, Askin makes use of recycled materials to create clothing she hopes will appeal to a wide audience of women.

"It's a very simple concept," she said. "You deconstruct and reconstruct."

"Eco" or "green" fashion involves "treasuring things that still have a lot of life left in them," she said. "I think eco-fashion can be part of the fashion world."

Askin's favorite recycled materials are men's shirts, preferably cotton and of good quality, perhaps too threadbare around the neck to still be worn but with attractive colors and designs she can adapt to her own creations.

So let see where fashion takes her. We just wish this will take her to the next level as the competition is getting harder. Short plug on Sunglass hut international