Ecobags

This year’s winning item for your mom—at least if you live in Japan—is what is known as an Ecobag. Used in place of the free plastic and/or paper bags received at the cashier in supermarkets and other retail outlets, Ecobags are reusable bags with style. With San Francisco's recent ban on the plastic land-fillers and the ever-more-ubiquitous Anya Hindmarch "I Am Not a Plastic Bag" …

Weird Science

In the 1985 movie "Weird Science," a pair of happy misfits use tip-top technology and nerdy know-how to create something truly beautiful in the form of "real life" woman and sexed up diva Kellie Le Brock. The Australian fashion label Romance Was Born have created something equally beguiling with their Spring/Summer 07/08 collection, also called Weird Science. Sending coke-bottle spectacles, high-waisted acid wash and even …

Alabama Builds Shirt

Handmade in the U.S. with organic cotton and benefiting Architecture for Humanity's Gulf Coast Project, the Alabama Builds tee is a win-win-win situation. An offshoot of the Alabama Project (the short-lived adventure in couture made from recycled materials by local seamstresses in Alabama) the shirt uses the reverse appliqué technique that the Project applied to basketball jerseys, dresses and shirts to much success. The more …