ECO JACKET: PRO The body of a $225 jacket from Nau is machine-washable wool, saving dry cleaning emissions. Polyester panels are made from recycled soda bottles. The whole thing can be returned to be recycled into something else. CON The soda bottles were shipped to Japan to be made into fabric, which was shipped to China to make the jacket, and then to the United States, leaving a substantial carbon footprint (Photo: Lars Klove for The New York Times)

ORGANIC COTTON JEANS: PRO Loomstate jeans, $295, are made domestically (Kentucky) from unwashed, untreated organic-cotton denim; the paper label is impregnated with seeds so you can plant it and grow flowers. CON Subject to unpredictable shrinkage; the care tag suggests washing with shampoo while wearing them in the shower and drying in the sun. (Photo: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)

RECYCLED-FABRIC TOTE: PRO A wool bag, $38 at Urban Outfitters, is made in Philadelphia from a patchwork of fabrics gathered at rag houses across the country. CON Some fabrics have been re-washed or re-dyed. (Photo: Lars Klove for The New York Times)

BAMBOO T-SHIRT: PRO Fortune & Redemption’s fabrics are made of 70 percent bamboo, a renewable resource, and some of the hearts are painted with a dust of “nonconflict” diamonds. CON Bamboo fibers must be mechanically beaten or chemically treated to become soft. Most bamboo has to be shipped to the United States, leaving a carbon footprint. (Photo: Lars Klove for The New York Times)

PUFFER COAT: PRO The filling of Patagonia’s $215 jacket is made from recycled soda bottles. CON Propagates questionable puffer jacket trend. (Photo: Lars Klove for The New York Times)

PATCHWORK DRESS: PRO Duro Olowu, included in the Barneys “green holiday” catalog, is a hot London designer making one-of-a-kind dresses from unused remnants of couture textiles. CON For $6,500, praising a dress for using old fabric is a stretch. (Photo: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)

FOSSILIZED IVORY BRACELET: PRO Monique Péan’s bracelet was made from 25,000-year-old fossilized woolly mammoth ivory unearthed by melting ice caused by global warming, and sales benefit the indigenous tribes of Alaska. CON This one costs $14,000. (Photo: Lars Klove for The New York Times)

REPORTER’S SWEATSHIRT: PRO Recycling clothes from your own closet may be the greenest statement of all. CON Sustained by Tide and Snuggle. Not fit to be seen in public. (Photo: Lars Klove for The New York Times)

Lire l'article "A World Consumed by Guilt" d'Eric Wilson http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/fashion/13green.html?ex=1355202000&en=e44dee245864a6df&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss