Handmade Up-cycled Bags - The 21st Century Eco-Conscious Fashion

As we approach the 21st century Global Warming phenomenon, everything is changing rapidly, including the arts in Fashion, specifically handmade bags. As we see, people now become health conscious and "Earth conscious" as well. People need to decide what to do in our polluted planet, that's why people nowadays are seeking to do something to save planet Earth. All fields are beginning to look for ways to help reduce, reuse, and recycle, and one of them is in the field of Fashion, so Eco-Fashion begun.

Companies started designing their products in a "Sustainable design way". Sustainable design (also called environmental design) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of economic, social, and ecological sustainability. The intention of sustainable design is to "eliminate negative environmental impact completely through skillful, sensitive design". Manifestations of sustainable design require no non-renewable resources, impact the environment minimally, and relate people with the natural environment. Sustainable design is mostly a general reaction to global environmental crises, the rapid growth of economic activity and human population, depletion of natural resources, damage to ecosystem, and loss of biodiversity.

While there's a growing concern for ecological sustainability, people in the business sector producing products are looking into using eco-friendly materials for production. The same way, producers of Eco-fashion and ladies accessories, creative designers, artists and makers are now becoming inventive when it comes to upcycling or creating new products from old waste. So far, popular work by Eco-fashion designers carry the labels Nahui Ollin and Naveh Milo. Today, Eco-fashion designers and makers of ladies handbags and accessories carries the goal to upcycle waste materials such as candy wrappers, recycled magazines, and recycled juice pouches to make handmade wrappper purses and handbags.

Most handmade bags, are made of recycled candy wrappers, soda labels, and magazines. A typical recycled handmade handbags can contain up to 1,500 wrappers and can take 4 days to create, by experienced artisans from Mexico, Indonesia and Philippines. One of the popular brand names is the Nahui Ollin recycled bags, with different colors design on top of it. Handmade bags whose materials come from recycled soda labels and candy wrappers are in-demand. The Nahui Ollin handmade bags are very in-demand especially to students and teenagers as well. Handmade purses which materials are mostly bottle tops, rice sacks, leaves and flowers are very popular among middle class lady fashionista. Wrapper purses are also made of Indonesian candy wrappers, dried leaves and flowers, rice sacks, bottle tops, and cans. The most popular brand is the Naveh Milo.

Now that you're aware of the growing concern for ecological sustainability, and for the need to reuse, reduce, and recycle, and you're up to being an Eco-fashionista then it's time to use and promote Eco-friendly products. If you're a lady and a fashionista like me, then go, buy, and wear a handmade handbag from an Eco-conscious company. This way, we become environment friendly fashionista promoting products that will protect our Planet.