| EVENT REPORT 03.17.08 5:16 PM |
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Eco-Friendly Fashion Show Takes Over Mayor's Backyard
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 | The mayor's backyard bash
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With a little help from a well-connected 14-year-old, Designers & Agents—the organization behind the bicoastal fashion trade show of the same name—launched its FutureFashion L.A. event during Fashion Week, exhibiting eco-friendly couture creations by such designers as Trina Turk, Deborah Lindquist, and Hazel Brown. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hosted the event Thursday night in the backyard of his official residence, the Getty House.
Designers & Agents cofounders Barbara Kramer and Ed Mandelbaum credited the mayor’s teenage daughter, Natalia, with making the evening possible: It was her interest in fashion that influenced the mayor to attend the Designers & Agents show in Los Angeles last year, and subsequently to decide he wanted to host an event with the organization.
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Designers & Agents, Earth Pledge, Going Green, Fashion Week |
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| EVENT INTELLIGENCE 06.15.07 10:45 AM |
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Who's Really Going Green?
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Heather Henderson has set an ambitious goal. As the operations manager for Cisco Systems' "Networkers at Cisco Live," a 10,000-head annual user conference, Henderson already has plenty on her plate: The conference packs in roughly 500 educational sessions, a trio of networking and entertainment evenings, and a trade show with more than 150 exhibitors. That's not stopping her, though, from forging ahead with a plan to make nearly every aspect of the conference—from paper to electricity to food—environmentally friendly by 2009.
"This year, we're moving to be more green," she says of Cisco's five-day program, which the network equipment manufacturer holds in a different city each summer. "We're taking small steps." Some of those steps include working with the caterer to provide biodegradable plates and utensils and saving paper by printing handouts only when users request them—and, in those cases, printing on recycled paper with soy inks.
"It's a pretty aggressive undertaking," she says, acknowledging that although awareness of eco-friendliness is up, many meeting and event pros aren't yet making the leap from awareness to action. "People are changing their behavior to some extent, but not to the extent it needs to be to make a huge impact."
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Going Green, Cisco, Environmental Media Association, Oscars, Domino Magazine, Prudential, Designers & Agents, Sundance |
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