Blooming organic kids clothes
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
The children’s book world has a new darling called Bloom, the story of a pig who suffers unrequited love by a flower, only to later find its ideal mate. The book is newly on sale at Amazon.com and Pottery Barn Kids.
Bloom’s creator Maria van Lieshout shares the character’s love of nature. When a child in Holland, van Lieshout was taught to consider the environment every day while recycling and turning off the household lights, so she naturally chose organics when designing Bloom clothes for babies. Her onesie’s and baby Ts are made of 100 percent organic cotton from the U.S. clothing manufacturer American Apparel, which makes its soft-cotton Ts in the United States, thereby reducing the carbon footprint from manufacturing. (more…)