Canada’s top eco fashion designers will be recognized next month by Fashion Takes Action, a Toronto-based social enterprise promoting an extensive greening of the industry.

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These days numerous designers across Canada are working on becoming more eco friendly and now there is a program that aims at recognizing those achievements. Fashion Takes Action (FTA) is launching the 1st annual Eco Fashion Design Award which will honor Canadian designers who are pioneering the eco fashion movement. The winning designer will an amazing prize that is valued over $50,000 but what is really cool is how this campaign shows how easy, and stylish, it is for designers to go green.

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Kelly Drennan and her crew over at Fashion Takes Action are movers and shakers (we’ve known this for a while), but we are delighted to hear of their FTA Design Forward contest for Canadian designers.

Drennan says FTA’s first annual award is being created in recognition of the many talented eco fashion designers in Canada.

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Nixxi is one of 14 labels from across Canada to be nominated for the [FTA Design Forward] award, chosen from what the FTA calls “the best that Canada has to offer.”

Watson said she is pleased by the FTA’s nomination. Each nominee was hand-selected by FTA based on a set of criteria that included materials used, labour and production practices and fashion design.

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