Teens Turning Green

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

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Party Dress

Combine the energy of high school girls with the wisdom and direction of consumer safety advocate advocate Judi Shills and voila, you get Teens Turning Green. This rapidly growing network of teens is doing its part to educate the community and has been featured in magazines like Teen Vogue and Seventeen. Their first order of business; make prom night green. When they asked us to help by designing some custom green prom looks, we were more than happy to heed the call. Read the full story to see the looks and read more about Teens Turning Green and Project Green Prom.

Two Interns, One Camera

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

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We’re Sarah and Kidada, new interns at Stewart+Brown and old friends pre-Stewart+Brown. Last weekend we were given the assignment to catalog our fourth of July for this newsletter so we decided make a trip out to a little town east of Ventura called Ojai, enjoy the scenery along the way and end the day with family, friends and fireworks. Check it out!

On The Road…Hybrid Style

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

The seeds for a hybrid road trip were planted when Karen and I were invited to spend Earth Day this year at Toyota’s North American headquarters in Torrance, CA. Toyota, hybrid-early adopters with their ever-so-popular Prius, also owns the Lexus brand which has its own line of luxury hybrid vehicles. Stewart+Brown is a partner of Lexus Hybrid Living and has teamed up with the brand for several marketing events over the last few years so when it came up that we were taking to the road in a few weeks for a trunk show at the fabulous eco-luxury boutique Eco Citizen in San Francisco our friends at Lexus offered to let us test drive one of their Hybrids and let them know what we thought about it. A no-brainer, right? For those of you that haven’t experienced a hybrid, they are a BLAST to drive! Especially the Lexus 450RX hybrid SUV that they generously loaned us for our road trip. It was our 15 month old son Huxley’s first road trip and an amazing trip for the whole family.

Haiku Contest Winner!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Inspired By:
Twill Village Short

Congrats Lindsey! You’re the lucky lady who was selected at random as the winner of our haiku contest. I was so amazed at all of the entries we got for this contest and it’s so amazing to have such a creative set of newsletter-getters. I really had so much fun reading them all and thanks to everyone who entered. Check out the full story to read some our favorite haiku’s that were submitted.

Summer Studio Sale!

Friday, May 29th, 2009

It’s the most wonderful time of the year once again, and no, I don’t mean Christmas. It’s time for our Summer Studio Sale!

All of our Studio Sales are can’t miss events and this is no exception. As per usual, there will be tons of green looks to score for a lot less green and you can take your pick from our summer styles and colors in addition to shopping our spring collections. Donna from Betty Belts with her collection of ethical accessories on both Thursday and Saturday and pastry chef Henry Ramos will be baking up some sweet treats for Saturday. We’ll have a different selection of goods on both days so if you want the best shot at everything, it’s best to come both days. Come early for the best scores and snacks and bring the kids so that Karen and Howard’s little ones can have some fun too.

Summer Studio Sale
Thursday June 4 : 4pm – 7pm
Saturday June 6 : 12pm – 5pm
@ The Stewart+Brown Design Studio
955 East Front Street
Ventura, CA 93001
RSVP on Facebook
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Here’s an idea! If you’re in LA, make a day of it! Cruise Hwy 1 to the 101, stop by the sale and spend the rest of the day at the beach. It’ll be worth it and we’d love to meet you!

Show a Green Businesswoman Some Love!

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Betty Belts owner Donna von Hoesslin is a class A sweetheart whom I often mistakenly call Betty. I’d feel worse about mistaking her name if I didn’t find the Betty so fitting of her personality: she’s a businesswoman surfer chick, inspiration and sponsor to other surfer chicks and a green girl through and through. Right now she’s a finalist to win the Intuit Small Business United $25,000 business grant that she needs to keep Betty Belts thriving. We’re all trying to help her out and you can too by voting for her video right here. You can vote from now until Saturday for her funny, inspiring and useful video in three categories: funny, useful and/or inspiring (you get three votes)! It’s worth a watch and your vote would go a long way in supporting a local green business woman with a heart of gold and a vintage bus full of surfboards. Betty/Donna will also be at our Studio Sale on June 4th and 6th with her collection of ethical jewelry and accessories which she travels the globe to collect and you can check out her entire collection at bettybelts.com. For more betty shots and some cute chicks in Stewart+Brown read the full story! (all photos are courtesy of Davd Pu’u, www.davidpuu.com)

Green Light Trunk Show

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Hey all of you under the big sky in Montana. Join Karen, Howard and the kids Huxley and Hazel this Thursday at The Green Light in Missoula for a Stewart+Brown trunk show. You’ll get to meet the masterminds behind Stewart+Brown in addition to having a few snacks and shopping your favorite styles. Bring the kids and come join us!

Stewart+Brown Trunk Show

Thursday, May 21 : 4PM – 8PM
The Green Light
128 W. Alder Street
Missoula, Montana
Tel: 406.521.8623
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RSVP via Facebook

Eco-Citizen Trunk Show

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Please join us for our first trunk show in the San Francisco/Bay Area at Eco Citizen Boutique in San Francisco, CA. Karen and Howard will be there with the kids Hazel and Huxley and they invite you to bring your little ones too. They will be selling Spring and Summer sustainable styles as well as offering a sneak-peak at the gorgeous 2009 Autumn Collection which will be available for pre-ordering at a 10% discount.

Karen’s going to bring her beautifully crafted sketchbook journals and both she and Howard will be chatting about Stewart+Brown’s creative process and all things green.

SF area non-profit, Teens Turning Green will receive a 10% donation from all Stewart+Brown Spring and Summer 2009 sales.

In addition, Zem Joquin, founder and owner of Eco Fabulous will be in attendance and is also the media sponsor of the event.

So come by, talk the good talk and mingle over light hors d’oeuvres and drinks. Appetizers will be provided and drinks will be supplied by Organic Vinters and Blue Angel Vodka.

Parking Info:
Guests are encouraged to take green cabs (www.sfgreencab.com) but parking is available at:

Royal Parking Garage
1776 Sacrament St. (at Polk)
San Francisco, CA 94109
Tel: 415.567.4707

See the flyer above for the event address.
Hope to see you there!

Alicia Silverstone Sports our Tissue Cotton Dress

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

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Tissue Cotton Slip Dress

If there is one thing Alicia isn’t Clueless about it’s the environment. Is the Clueless reference overdone these days? Anyway, we’re happy to see her sporting the look right down the bare feet and showing just how perfect this super lightweight fabric is for blazing the desert heat.

Happy Earth Day!

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

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Blocked Dart Cami // Blocked Skirt

We’re wishing you a very green Earth Day complete with new styles, a contest and a favor to ask of our dear readers. We just loaded up the estore with a bunch of new styles and colors making our online shop a veritable garden of earthly delights. Our classic organic lightweight jersey collection got a boost with new styles like the v strap tank dress and blocked dart cami (shown above with the blocked skirt) and other collections like hemp jersey and crepe also got a dose of the newness. Each style is organic, green and/or renewable today and every day so check ’em out.

If you’re not so green in the wallet it’s not too late to enter our Spring Haiku Contest for a $100 gift certificate to our e-store. Click here for full contest rules and specifics.

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