This is one of the shows I wish I would have seen live—just to see the movement of the fabric. I’ve written about Costello Tagliapietra before, commending their use of the waterless AirDye technique. They also won the CFDA/Lexus Eco-Fashion Challenge a few months back.

I love the bright colors, simple cuts and slight Mad Men-goes-disco vibe. These talented two have a very bright fashion future ahead of them.

Heritage brands, waterless dyes, upcycling, zero-waste pattern-making and the rise of open-source collaboration — topics I touch of in this article I wrote for the latest issue of Coco Eco Magazine (download a pdf here). As usual, I have more to say than there is room in the magazine, so get the full version here.

Today is Diwali, also known as The Festival of Lights.

For Hindus, Diwali is the most important festival of the year and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes.

On Wednesday, a friend hosted a Diwali gathering/showcase of goods from the site Exclusively In (today’s Friday Find — sign up!), which is kind of like a Gilt Groupe, with only Indian designers. There was lots of pretty jewelry.

I fell in love with this ring…

…and am head over heels in love with this harness/vest thing.

There were samosas too — all veggie and not too spicy. I had two.

The Indian cookies were crazy sweet. I think I ate two of those too, which was definitely one too much.

But hey, it’s Diwali, let’s celebrate!

Popped over to Norma Kamali‘s 5th Ave store yesterday at lunch time. Turns out there’s an amazing Wellness Café there that I had never known about! (NYC’s just too big to keep track of everything, but that’s what PR people are for, right?)

Kamali is obsessed with olive oil and has her own line of oils and beauty products, made from olives straight from her own orchards.

The café has pretty displays of good stuff like Himalayan sea salts, rock salts & bath salts…

…and books.

Best of all, there was an Organic Avenue juice counter, with free samples! OA’s juices are completely natural, organic and amazingly fresh — I think I’m about to get obsessed with them. Kamali drinks them every day and told me they’ve changed her life. She opened the wellness counter beacuse she wants to share her discoveries in holistic health, beauty and nutrition. Quote of the day, Norma Kamali on juicing: “you know, fashion people would rather starve than do something healthy like this.”

Check it out: Norma Kamali, 11 W56th Street (@ 5th Avenue).