Saks Fifth Avenue's Green House: Home of Eco Smart Style

Why It's Good:

From Icelandic eye cream to hand-embroidered dresses, Saks' online green store will take care of your luxury fashion and beauty essentials. Nothing tickles our fancy like a super department store selling dynamite duds made from sustainable fabrics by sexy, eco-conscious labels like Edun, Beau Soleil and Lutz & Patmos, to name a few from the collective in their Green House.

Why It's Green:

Most product materials are sustainable, eco-friendly and/or less toxic—think bamboo dresses for her, recycled cotton military jackets for him, and paraben- and petroleum-free beauty concoctions. The Green House store is online and available to everyone: Fuel-consuming modes of transportation are not necessary to shop till ya drop.

Where To Get It:

http://www.saks.com
To access the Green House directly, click here. Some pieces need to be pre-ordered.

Smart, Sexy and Sustainable at Saks

While shopping for a wedding gift, I popped onto Saks.com and was pleasantly surprised to land on Green House, their eco-friendly, all-natural department. Everything in the well-edited, chic collection looks wearable and functional—and the planet suffered a little less for their making. It's reassuring to know that I can score a lovely shift dress by Beau Soleil without having to dig too deep on my road to retail therapy. Check out the loose cotton tunic by Organic—it’s perfect for a rainy day in Rome or a 9 a.m. business meeting in Washington, D.C. If your needs are less sartorial, buy a bottle of Charity: Water; proceeds help rehabilitate a broken well in Bangladesh, among other repairs. Either way, you know the tides are turning when top-notch retailers are putting their eco-branding buys upfront and center.—Allison Reynolds