How We Wear It : Volume III
Julie wears Ether/Ore for Cri de Coeur Feather-like Earrings
WELCOME TO THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF “How We Wear It!”
Here Julie shows off her new love for these feather-like earrings by the awesome collaboration team of Ether/Ore and Cri de Coeur. It is so great to finally put these cruelty-free jewelry concepts to good use. All of our earrings are vegan and artfully handcrafted by Nina Fagiola in New York City. The brass and ultra suede combination is very beatnik, and Julie loves that though it is unconventional, it is still very on-point in the style of today. This fringe technique accentuates her elegant, yet casual Plastic Island cotton and lace t-shirt that she bought at Dear Fieldbinder in Brooklyn.
Gina wears Hannah in Sunshine
Gina rocks the hottest color of the season with these Hannah asymmetrical heels in bold-hued Sunshine. Offsetting her sea green, loose-fit blouse and black skinny jeans, these sandals are the perfect compliment for her warm summer day outfit. You can find this color exclusively on Endless.com or get your Black or Royal blue ones here!
The NY Project with Eleanor Banco
Cri de Coeur was lucky enough to be asked by Greta Eagan to provide shoes and bags for the NY Project with Elleanor Banco for Fashion me Green, a site where style goes green! FASHIONmeGREEN sought out a true NYC style influncer, Teen Vogue and Style.com’s PR Director Eleanor Banco for the NY Project and eco-fashion makeover.
A self-proclaimed fashion lover, Eleanor’s style balances high fashion statements with an easy sophistication. Watch the Webisode from NY Project and see behind the scenes footage of the shoot at New York’s SoHo House and see more of this New York fashionista’s sustainable style makeover using ten of New York’s hottest eco-designers. Shop the shoot for shoes such as our Hannah Asymmetrical Sandal in Royal Blue and Stella Cut-Out Cage Wedge in nude.
New Collaboration with jewelry designer Ether/Ore
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Introducing our new jewelry collection, Ether/Ore for Cri de Coeur. Ether/Ore is an up and coming jewelry design house founded by Nina Fagiola. Everything is handcrafted in New York City and made of mostly repurposed materials. Everything is vegan, of course, so you won’t see any leather, real feathers, pearls or silk. Ether/Ore and Cri de Coeur collaborated on these one of a kind pieces. We also love the way the two names flow so poetically together! We are super happy with the end result; a very bohemian chic take on fashionably stylish jewelry. We hope you enjoy it too!
All of the pieces are unique and made to order.
“Everything was beautiful and Nothing Hurt” – Kurt Vonnegut
We really love the dripping sarcasm of this quote by Kurt Vonnegut. What would a world where that was true be like? We are not suggesting we aspire to a Pleasantville utopia, but it is so hard to look for beauty in this world when the world is in so much turmoil. We try and focus on the positive, because there are often so many things we take for granted, including the very things that make our lives easier. But often these things we depend on keep us from recognizing the simpler organic beauty of life itself. Why not stop to smell the roses?
On a similar note, we were struck by what Louis C.K. had to say about the impatience of America in dealing with the glitches that come when conveniences of advanced technology fail us on Conan O’Brien. Watch this clip called Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy.
We found this clip to be enlightening, as we are all guilty of being impatient and bitter when something we have come to rely on doesn’t work properly. We are lucky to be priveledged to live in an age where we can get wi-fi on airplanes and cell service all over the world, but what happens when we can’t connect? We freak out! It’s nice to take a moment and realize how innovative these things are to begin with. It is truly spectacular that we can get to the moon and back, send anyone in the world an email and get immediate response, take our phones with us wherever we go, twitter, facebook… etc.. Yes spectacular.
Yet, somehow we cannot find the technology to stop an oil spill. Or to keep them from happening in the future. Crazy!
Sometimes we have to take a step back and understand consequences of these advancements and try and give up a few conveniences for the good of this planet. We may be used to getting in our car, turning on the air conditioning, throwing all our trash into one bin… but to what end? We have the power to create new technology that is beneficial to us and our environment, which includes all earth’s untechnological wonders like animals, the ocean and vegetation. To do this is one of the greatest combination of science and deference we can imagine.
While we have so much to aspire to, there are so many things to be thankful for. There are also things to be so mad about that we thrust ourselves to find new ways to go about things. We don’t fully understand why this oil spill is still going on, or why we are still so dependent on it. But we can change small things in our own lives and hope to live by example. Bill Maher, a fellow vegetarian, said it perfectly when he said in “New Rules for Democrats” on June 11, 2010 “eventually we are going to have to find something else to do. Try building windmills. You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.”