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Eco-friendly fashion just got a big boost with the announcement that a magazine aimed at improving the eco-friendly awareness needed by people today. Organic Beauty Magazine has been made available on a bimonthly basis, making it a better alternative for people who lack the proper information on how it is to really emphasize on what eco-friendly living is all about.

So fashionistas are now embellished with a new resource that frequently updates people who are bent on the new eco-fashion trends. This is surely one eco-friendly fashion publication that must not be missed!

“We are very excited to be teaming up with Rona to publish a magazine that will help women be healthy and beautiful,” said Diane Hintz, publisher of Organic Beauty. “The organic and natural personal-care product market has hit a phenomenal $7 billion in annual sales. The demand for organic beauty products may be the most important issue to affect the beauty industry in its history.”

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Is David Beckham all that good? Well, regardless, he is really in demand as far as product endorsement by big names in the celebrity world. He has been so big that he was forced to give up one of the companies he is endorsing, Pepsi Cola, to make way for separate product endorsement commitments in the business world.

One would have to wonder, why Pepsi? Pepsi is not a cheapskate company and in fact tied him up with a multi-million dollar deal? Could Vodafone and Armani given him more cash incentives over the beverage giant? One would never know. But if you were in his shoes it was surely a deal that was not easy to give up.

The LA Galaxy star has been the face of the brand for well over 10 years, and has thrilled his fans by dressing up as a gladiator, cowboy and surfer for the company’s various advertising campaigns.

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Eco-friendly gift wrapping ideas are all over the web these days, owing to the fact that Christmas has been soliciting good ideas on how to send that gift in the best eco-friendly wrapping today. But it is this Japanese style of gift wrapping a gift that is really interesting considering the cloth used are not only wonderfully decorative, they can be used in other ways as well outside re-using them to store gifts you may be giving out yourself.

Furoshiki or Japanese Eco-friendly gift wrapping is an alternative way of wrapping gifts to which keenly decorative cloths are used to wrap gifts. So instead of tearing apart the usual paper-based gift wrappers, the Furoshiki way allows people to make use of decorative clothing materials to be used in wrapping their gifts for family members or friends.

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Fashion will always have its origins. Apparently the best ideas come from new minds of the fashion-conscious teens we have today. Showcasing their ideas comes in different forms but nothing comes better than a good old fashion show to show what is in store for most wardrobe looking specialists we have today.

French Fashion University Esmod, the internationally acclaimed institution, you are bound to get a good glimpse of these new potential fashion lines from the shows that they organize, the 3rd one of which recently took place at the University’s campus in Dubai Academic city.

Keeping up with the fashion timeline, students performed a modern collection. The patterns were playful, and for lack of a better word, fashionable. Sharp angles and creative green and red details adorned multi cultured designs, while another displayed a festive mix of orange, red and white. Bust lines were lowered and the long-sleeves of the previous collections disappeared and were replaced with spaghetti straps.

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Guess who just joined the L’Oreal family? Actress Elizabeth Banks has reportedly joined the ranks of celebrities under the L’Oreal fold and was said to have signed a contract worth $1 million a year.

The deal includes television endorsements as well as offline advertising. She now finds herself alongside the likes of Beyonce Knowles and Eva Longoria who have already had prior and separate deals with L’Oreal.

“What impresses me most about L’Oréal is [its] commitment to empowering women,” said Banks in a statement, “L’Oréal wants women everywhere to take charge of their beauty…health and well being.”

via Vogue