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Deals, Finds, and Sample Sales
This is where you'll find a guide to shopping and deals in and out of New York City. Plus products The Three Tomatoes think you'll love.. So take your walking shoes or your little mouse and shop 'til you drop. Updated every Tuesday.
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Imagine designer jewelry, and handbags made from pop tops of cans, old magazines, vinyl records, and phone books. Beautiful clothes created from technological fabrics made from soda pop bottles & industry waste. And image that the crafting of many of these items can create women artisans in impoverished parts of the world, and help to sustain them and their communities. Well that is exactly what the companies behind some of the products we’re featuring today, not only imagined, but have turned into reality.
Soda Pop Dresses. Nina Valenti is a Brooklyn based fashion designer and founder of NaturevsFuture. Her beautiful clothes are made in New York incorporating mainly organic, sustainable, renewable, biodegradable & recycled materials. Her collection mixes fabrics like organic cotton, organic wool, hemp, soy, bamboo, seacell® (seaweed), lyocell (wood pulp), Ingeo™ (created from plant sugars such as corn), along with recycled & technological fabrics such as Polartec® (made from soda pop bottles & industry waste). No wonder this fashion line of style and substance has become a favorite of people like Tina Fay and Deborah Harry. Shop now at NaturevsFuture.
The perfect weight blazer for the spring into summer. Indigo w/navy lining in hemp/organic cotton & lined with an organic cotton & hemp jacquard. Onsale for $238.
The Pop Top Handbags. We were at a dinner party not long ago and a woman there had this stunning handbag we all admired. We were in awe when she told us it wasmade from the pop tops on soda cans. You can buy these beautiful bags and jewelery too, online from Escama Studios, hand crocheted out of pop tops in Brazil by women's Fair Trade collectives.
Clutch shoulder bag with fold over flap. Hand crocheted with over 500 post-consumer recycled pop tops. $88.
Cleo' Necklace 'Egyptian' Fan-shaped necklace. Created from recycled pop tops and entirely original crochet technique. $38.
Candy Wrapper Purses. Ecoist is another amazing firm that makes beautiful handbags and jewelry out of just about anything, from candy wrappers to vinyl records. They partner with brands like Coca-Cola Disney, and Frito-Lay. Instead of having their misprinted and obsolete packaging end up in landfills, Ecoist reuses them to make these fabulous handbags. So far, Ecoist has saved more than 40 million wrappers from landfills. And for every handbag they sell, they plant in tree in places like Haiti and Uganda.
Coin Purse - Green Love M&M's. Perfect for carrying little stuff like keys, cards, and some cash. Each one of these purses uses 60 recycled candy wrappers! $24.50.
Cuffs are made with the black vinyl from our recycled records. The record is bonded to a 1 1/8” wide rhodium-plated bracelet cuff. Feel the grooves and tracks of the record, which are visible in the high sheen of the vinyl. $45.
The Magazine Handbag. We love these beautiful colorful bags made from recycled magazines. And if you like these, wait ‘til you see the juice box bags. Made by UrthBags, these one of a kind handbags are made from recyclable or biodegrable materials. The bags are handcrafted by Fair Trade women's organizations and artisans.
