By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now
The Paris fall fashion shows have ended, and designer Stella McCartney is getting plenty of good press for her 2009 collection, her ninth. While some fashion extremists paraded neon fur and gigantic gowns, hip-high leather boots and heels so high models could barely walk, McCartney (at right) presented an elegant, interesting and wearable collection that is – as always — 100 percent Earth-friendly.
McCartney is the fashion design world’s most prominent environmental activist who has made it her mission to prove that elegance can be environmentally friendly.
She never uses leather or fur. Her cosmetics line, CARE, is 100 percent natural and totally chemical-free. She makes every effort to have shops that run on renewable energy. She mandates that all her employees use only recycled paper. Even the bags that are used to ship her costly goods are 100 percent biodegradable.
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