Articles about Vy&Elle
National Geographic
The Green Guide, October, 2006
Southwest Style
So This Tunic Walked into a Bar... August 5, 2007
New York Press
Billboard Baggage
House & Garden
Best of 2007
New York Times
Sunday Style, April 15, 2007
Rachel Ray Show
September, 2007
In the Bag
The Green Life Sierra Club Magazine, September/October, 2006
Arizona Daily Star
Take it Home: Vy&Elle Wine Tote Makes a Perfect Wedding Present,
May 20, 2007
Goes well with green
The Boston Globe, March 23, 2006
6 best recycled products:
From bowls made of vinyl records, to handbags made of billboards, see old goods made new by creative small companies.
Fortune Small Business Magazine, March 1, 2006
GREEN GIFTS: They're earthy and easy on the planet. Shop in good conscience.
San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, December 4, 2005
Better Homes & Granola
New York Times,
November 23, 2005
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Vy&Elle Billboard Bags
Treehugger,
March 2, 2005
Turning Billboards into Wearable Art
Breathe Magazine,
March/April 2005
Ah, the life of a billboard: For a few halcyon months, they hawk the wares of paid advertisers, and then are stripped off their frames and dumped—languishing in landfills. Oh, the humanity.
But all that is about to change: Vy&Elle, a company based in Wisconsin, has been making silk pursers—er, vinyl bags—out of castoff billboards for the past two years. Products range from pocketbooks, messenger-bags, laptop totes, and yoga bags.
The three co-owners are not new to FOMN (friend of Mother Nature) efforts. Designer Nicola Freegard has a background in earth-friendly fabrics for home furnishings. Robin Janson also makes furniture out of salvaged building stuff, like old tin ceilings. And Jeff Janson runs an archictectural salvage company. So they know how to make the old new again in the hippest, prettiest ways.
So far, they've saved more than 12 tons of vinyl from billboards. The result is a line of bags that's constantly surprising (designs are fresh and unpredictable, as they come form whatever billboards they can get), durable and waterproof to boot.
Klein Creative Communications Keeps GMHC Dancing with Celebrity-Autographed Gift Bag Auction on eBay
PRWeb Press Release Newswire,
December 23, 2004
MOVE AGAINST AIDS: RETURN OF THE DANCE-A-THON RAISES $750,000
GMHC,
December 14, 2004
Sweepstakes:
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Benefit Gift Bag Giveaway
Soap Opera Digest & Weekly,
November 28, 2005
Fashionably great
Natural Home and Garden Magazine,
August, 2005
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Accessories that are recycling's latest boast
NorthJersey.com,
October 20, 2005
Samanta Shoes Included in Celebrity Gift Bags at Move Against AIDS Danceathon
PRNN Pr News Now!,
December 28, 2004
Goody Bag! Score an Autographed Taxi Bag
US Weekly,
October 18, 2004
To celebrate the new Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon film, Taxi, US is giving three readers Vy&Elle Bags created from recycled billboards and signed by the stars ($99 each)! To enter, visit tellusmagazine.com by October 13, 2004.
Life, Style, Planet.
Sass Magazine