chocolate creative: Fashion

Wife and husband team are behind Pour Porter, and online boutique that stocks independent and innovative designer's creations. I have already selected my favourites pieces. I am so grateful to keep finding so many talented and creative people out there. The cruel reality is that we, independent designers, work super hard at creating new products and coming up with fresh ideas, to later on have the big brands copying our designs, or paying a good salary to their designer's team to based their collections on what is already out there rather than thinking and coming up with their own concepts.

I can only work at a certain peace, and launch new products and designs, when money and time allow for taking them into production. I know it is impossible to compete with the big guys, and that our prices are much more higher than the high street ones. From here, I would like to encourage, when possible, a more responsible and conscious buying.

Check Pour Porter to at least dream with one of their pieces, or start saving or if budget allows get them...I have started saving to get the sandals.

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I want to celebrate with you all the 3rd Aniverssary of Sublime magazine, the first nternational sustainable lifestyle magazine. When my dear friends Damian and Laura started this publication 3 years ago, I knew they were on the right track, the title, the look, and best of all the content!! Every time I get a new copy in my hands, I get this sense of hope in our future and planet, as I learn about all this amazing people and organisations that, around the globe are doing their best to keep our planet going. It shows that we can make a difference and preserve our beautiful world by making compromises in our lifestyle and spreading the word of a greener and more sustainable life, so what are you waiting for??

This is just a brief example of what the magazine has to offer, definitely a publication worth to be red and look at...You won't be disappointed!!

I am so pleased to see one of my cushions in their selection of Xmas gifts!!. The photo shoot took place in the Eco-age shop in Chiswick, London.

Beauty editor: Jenny Page; styling: DS, Io Takemura, Iki Chen; photography: David Wilman

In this current issue you can find a very interesting article about Summer Rayne Oakes, and her beginning as a champion of the environment and achievements in making the ecological topics to be part of the social and media agenda.