Rene Geneva Design

Fair Trade

Fair Trade Women's Initiatives

nicaragua women in fair trade factory

Ms. Geneva personally trained a Fair Trade Women's cooperative in Nicaragua with sewing skills that helped them expand their customer base. Since then, she has been dedicated to helping communities and indigenous populations in developing countries. Currently focusing in Nicaragua, she has worked in the past with communities in Pakistan and India.

She is currently in the planning stages with the support of the Whole Planet Foundation on a project in Nicaragua to help educate and fairly employ women. This project is scheduled to break ground in late 2009.

fair trade apparel

That said, most of our manufacturing is with in the USA by women owned facilities. Keeping it with in our own part of the world helps employ our neighbors and cut down on carbon emissions. Women just rock, and we are proud to support them.

Founded in 1997 , Rene´ Geneva Design, LLC holds environmental and social responsibility in the highest regard. We offer designer eco-friendly, organic women's clothing, Green Bridal - including organic wedding and bridesmaid dress, eco-chic organic clothing, high-fashion hemp apparel, certified organic cotton jersey dresses, bamboo fashion, and peace silk clothing. All of our fabrics are organic, eco friendly, and dyed with low-impact dyes. No Sweatshops are used! We make our clothing in the USA and we also work with Fair Trade Labor in developing coutries to provide "Sweat-Free" clothing. We even work with indigenous cultures and small villages globally to bring you unique organic women's clothes that use their traditional textile methods, including hand spun and hand woven SKAL certified organic cotton, peace silk (where the silk is cultivated after the moth's hatch from the cocoon). Soy clothing uses only non-GMO soy (or not genetially modified Soy) and we use only formaldehyde-free silk. We utilitze renewable resources by using fabrics such as Bamboo and Hemp for our women's clothing, bridal, and eveningwear. Our personal and affiliates work tirelessly to ensure that our hemp fabric comes from small, organic farms and all of our fabric is spun with fair trade labor. We are the only high fashion design house that offers the Fashionably Neutral Carbon Program™ which certifies each garment as Carbon Neutral and offers truly carbon neutral clothing as a result. A portion of your purchase supports this effort, as well as our Scraps for Schools™ program, which recycles fabric scraps for children's art projects. We are working on the Sun Power Project™ which facilitates the installation of solar electricity into a women's sewing cooperative in Central America. We use windpowered webhosting, have a bio diesel car (VW Golf TDI.. highly recommended, 47MPG!!), and use eco friendly printing with recycled paper, paper made from Elephant Dung, and soy inks. We are a proud member of Co-op America.

Our eco-chic and eco-friendly women's apparel has been featured on the runway at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Los Angeles, in California Apparel News multiple times, Yogi Times LA, Rare Magazine, Tree Hugger, Austin Monthly, KXAN NBC News, Idea Bright, and Dwell Magazine.