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Greener Christmas

Usually, talk of a "green Christmas" is not a welcome thing, but this year, there's no harm in being a little green in your Christmas planning. FTA's very own Kelly Drennan shows us how to be a little greener with our clothing for the Holiday Season. 

Weather Network

FTA's very own CEO Kelly Drennan was featured on the Weather Networks featurette on eco fashion for the holiday season. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJYBQEoyfXI

Budgeting For The Holidays

Laura Zilke shows holiday consumers how the holiday's don't need to be expensive. From gifts, parties, & cooking with a little planning your budget will stay on track and your won't feel the normal pinch.

Kelly Drennan featured on Extraordinary Women TV

Shannon Skinner has spent several years studying the secrets of success and is dedicated to giving extraordinary people a channel through which they can inspire the lives of others around the world.

Shannon welcomes Kelly Drennan to the ThatChannel.com studio for an episode of Extraordinary Women TV.

Bamboo Magazine Shop Sustainable Event Feature

Ladies and Gents of Toronto, November 29 is your chance to add some eco beauty and fashion to your wardrobe at Shop Sustainable.

Slow Fashion & Sustainable Consumption

As a result of slow food’s influence, pleasure and fashion have become linked to awareness and responsibility on both sides of the clothing rack. Kelly Drennan of Fashion Takes Action notes that there has been a shift from quantity to quality on both sides: designers are creating more timeless, season-less pieces, while consumers are learning to treat their wardrobe as an investment.

NOW Feature GLS 2011

NOW Magazine highlighted the serious style presence of eco fashion at the 2011 Green Living Show.

Twenty sustainable designers/FTA members occupied our Emerging Designers Boutique and put on a main stage fashion show at the event.

FTA's Kelly Drennan Awarded Best of Green

Congratulations to our very own Kelly Drennan, Founder of Fashion Takes Action, for receiving the above 2011 Best of Green awards! She was chosen by TreeHugger.com for Best Style Twitter Feed in the Fashion & Beauty category, in addition to being voted Reader's Choice! We couldn't be more proud!

NOW Magazine // Ecoholic

NOW Magazine's Ecoholic Adria Vasil talks of green fashion in Canada, Fashion Takes Action and FTA's 14 Design Forward nominees

FTA Design Forward in Elle Canada Magazine

Our inaugural Design Forward winner, Nicole Bridger, is interviewed by Elle Canada Magazine. Read about this pioneering designer, whose prize included a trip to NYC to show at the Ethical Fashion Preview.

Nicole Bridger Wins Inaugural Design Forward Award

The top 3 finalists were announced on Earth Day, and our judges then spent a couple of weeks digging deeper into our criteria. We added two new categories for this round of judging: accountability and transparency. Each finalist was given a score out of 30 by each of the 3 judges who then submitted their scorecards to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the award’s official vote counting partner.

Globe & Mail: Award for Eco Fashion

Canada’s top eco fashion designers will be recognized next month by Fashion Takes Action, a Toronto-based social enterprise promoting an extensive greening of the industry.

Read the full story.

The Fashionist

These days numerous designers across Canada are working on becoming more eco friendly and now there is a program that aims at recognizing those achievements. Fashion Takes Action (FTA) is launching the 1st annual Eco Fashion Design Award which will honor Canadian designers who are pioneering the eco fashion movement. The winning designer will an amazing prize that is valued over $50,000 but what is really cool is how this campaign shows how easy, and stylish, it is for designers to go gree

FTA Design Forward Featured on EcoSalon

Kelly Drennan and her crew over at Fashion Takes Action are movers and shakers (we’ve known this for a while), but we are delighted to hear of their FTA Design Forward contest for Canadian designers.

Drennan says FTA’s first annual award is being created in recognition of the many talented eco fashion designers in Canada.

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