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 ==**Linda Loudermilk: Saving The Planet While Looking Fabulous** ==

If green is the new black, Linda Loudermilk is the new Vera Wang. Fashion designers have a major impact on society. They decide how society dresses which in turn influences social opinions and the media. Top designer’s therefore have the ability to greatly influence not only today’s youth but people of all walks of life. Global warming is a problem that has been eminent in today’s world for a long time. Some fashi on icons have addressed this issue by converting their clothing lines to environmentally safe products but not to the extent and as early as Linda Loudermilk who coined the term “luxury-eco”. Eco-couture is environmentally friendly fashion that uses organic products instead of processed fabrics that use pesticides. Loudermilk’s luxury eco collection is eco-couture with a greater emphasis on the fashion aspect. Through her luxury eco collection she has not only put the issue on the forefront of fashion but truly changed what the term eco couture means.

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