{"id":1518,"date":"2008-11-06T23:18:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T04:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2008-11-06T23:18:46","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T04:18:46","slug":"sophie-rieu-designs-eco-creative-winning-couture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/sophie-rieu-designs-eco-creative-winning-couture\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Rieu Designs Eco-creative Winning Couture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Unicorn<\/em><\/strong> is an award-winning women’s designer wear label with great character, founded by Ireland-based French designer Sophie Rieu. Collections are made from the finest locally-sourced organic and natural fabrics. Her garments are elegantly understated, and flatter the female form with particular emphasis on detailing and finish.<\/p>\n

Sophie’s fabrics are colored with low impact dyes. Her prints are also from low impact dyes and inks. All zips, ribbons and binding are tested and made in compliance with \u00d6KO<\/a> environmental certification standards. The design facility is powered by wind energy with efforts to limit impacts on the Earth, both socially and environmentally.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sophie Rieu trained at the Grafton Academy in Dublin and launched Couture-with-a-conscience<\/em> in 2005. She earned a strong environmental and social background that influenced her decision to work only with environmentally friendly fabrics. She also created the Shakti<\/em> range \u2012 a yoga label made from fairly traded organic.<\/p>\n

Sophie creates biannual collections with innovative style around a theme. Her 2008-2009 Unicorn<\/a><\/em> winter collection is titled Clair Obscur<\/em>, named after the Renaissance painting technique which subtly plays with shadows, shimmer and light. She layers or combines different textures and colors to apply and re-interpret the effect, which functions beautifully.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Typical materials are certified organic cotton, organic silk and locally-woven fabrics, such as linen and tweed. She supports the sustainable use of natural materials, as well as local crafts and traditions. Sophie holds a passion for innovative designs and strives to produce something quite different twice a year.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Sophie is winner of the Most Eco-creative Women’s Designer<\/em><\/strong> award of the Chic Eco contest<\/a> poll 2008. Yet it doesn’t take a winner’s seal to appreciate her innovative talent. The label is couture with a conscience that blends style, character, substance, and grace.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Unicorn range is stocked in selected boutiques throughout Ireland and in the UK, USA, France, and Japan. Customers know these garments are to love for a lifetime. In summary, Unicorn Design<\/em> is about offering the best standards in design-led fashion with all the added advantages of ethical sourcing and production. Congratulations Sophie!<\/p>\n

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Unicorn is an award-winning women’s designer wear label with great character, founded by Ireland-based French designer Sophie Rieu. Collections are made from the finest locally-sourced organic and natural fabrics. Her garments are elegantly understated, and flatter the female form with particular emphasis on detailing and finish. More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[94,84,75],"tags":[820,2386,101,2630,74,614,2631],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sophie-rieu-bwdress1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}