Eco Chic- Toward Sustainable Swedish Fashion is an exhibition which showcases Swedish fashion designers who take an environmentally-friendly and ethical approach to their work,without sacrificing style.
Fashion conceals an uncomfortable truth. The industry is one of the world's biggest, and uses more water than any other apart from agriculture.
Sustainable clothing has typically been distinguishable by its appearance. Now, as Eco Chic illustrates, ethical fashion looks no different from conventionally produced clothing; it can be exciting and it is possible to construct high garments with sustainable end ecolocigal practices. What sets this kind of fashion apart is implicit in the values and attitudes of individual designers. The ecolocical and ethical production of clothing begins with the design of garment, and continues right throught to the finished product, including the transparency of fashion companies about their production processes and materials.

Public Programs:

Saturday, Feb 19 at 2 pm - Eco Chic Expose
Annika Axelsson, Dem Collective, Sweden

Satruday,March 5 at 4 pm - Foraging For Fashion: The Slow Food Connection
John McReynolds,Stone Edge Farm ans Sasha Duerr, Permacoulure Institue

Saturday, March 12 at 2 pm - Global Perspective on Clean Cotton
Marcus Bergman, The Ecocotton Co.,Sweden and Peruadn Lynda Grose, CCA and Sustainable Cotton Project, CA

Saturday, April 2 at 5 pm - Trashion Fashion:Juried Fashion Show
Andrews Hall, Sonoma Community Center

Saturday, April 16 at 1-4 pm - Fight Fatigue Clothing Swap

Tickets: Weekend tickets $10 for museum members and $12 for non-members

Gallery hours Wed-Sun 11am-5pm
For more information: www.svma.org
Phone: 707-939-7862