At Rebagz Handbags we’re redefining fashion by pairing smart style with sustainability. All our bags are made using recycled materials, and they’re as human-friendly as they are eco-friendly because Rebagz are all made under fair labor conditions. (Our bags even carry Green America’s Seal of Approval). But first and foremost, our bags make a vivid fashion statement – because we’d all like to look good while doing good. And that’s probably why we were named 2009 California Small Business of the Year.
Fashion that’s obviously eco – what we call “beige and itchy” – has seen its day. It’s time for beautiful bags that are simply made the way things ought to be made, and that’s where Rebagz come in. Our “Statement Makers” line is made using coated recycled paper and recycled PET plastic for the straps. The “Juicy Hand Woven” bags are made from hand woven recycled juice packs and our “Rice Sack Graphics” line incorporates recycled rice sacks that already have those amazing graphics printed on them. (Yes, the sacks looked that beautiful carrying rice around before they got to us! We don’t screen print anything on them or laminate them.)
Part of the proceeds from many of our new “Statement Makers” help wonderful organizations, ncluding Greenpeace, the KIND Campaign and the Breast Cancer Emergency Fund. We also donate $1 per order to Global Exchange, an organization Marty Stevens-Heebner, our company’s president, worked with when she did human rights work in Chiapas, Mexico.
Rebagz have been featured on the “Today Show,” and our Large Tie Tote was voted “favorite eco-bag” by InStyle magazine’s readers in July 2009. Our “Life is a Circle” Bag received a “Best in Show” award at the New York International Gift Fair in August 2008 from New Age Retail for the bags‘ eye-catching style.
Don’t get us wrong – we’re definitely out to change the world. But at Rebagz, we don’t think you need to shout and scream to do it. We’d rather rock it with style instead.