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Global Ghetto Organics®

Eco-luxury. Good for the earth. Style meets substance.

Global Ghetto Organics® makes luxury bamboo apparel with tasteful, understated style. Global Ghetto Organics' collection of elegant earth-friendly basics are suffused with utilitarian sophistication: Painter's Jackets, yoga wear, ecoThermals, long and short-sleeved tees all with incredibly yummy fabric, great cuts and discreet detailing. They make their own bamboo fabrics with the richest most supple hand, soft like cashmere but way more durable. Global Ghetto Organics are ecoWarrior outfitters offering versatile luxury with a conscience.

Global Ghetto Organics bamboo is sustainable and the bamboo farm in China that provides our bamboo fiber for their fabric is USDA certified organic. They use Oeko-tex 100 dyes which set the highest standards to effect zero impact on the environment. Bamboo is not eaten by bugs or fungus. When bamboo becomes fiber the fabric has the same antibacterial properties. Anti-bacterial means bacteria cannot grow in the fabric. Surgeons have begun wearing their ecoThermals as scrubs because of this, and because they're so soft and breathe so well.

Global Ghetto Organics® was conceived by Steve Sas Schwartz, a California-based artist and designer. His dual roots go deep into underground culture and contemporary painting. He's been involved in cutting edge street style fashion since the 1980s. A founder of seminal skate shop-happening Skate N.Y.C. in the East Village, he helped define the urban skate aesthetic. He's also an accomplished artist who's exhibited widely, with paintings in public collections like MOMA and other museums as well as the private collections of Halle Berry, Jim Jarmusch and others. He's represented by galleries on both coasts. A move back to the west coast proved the tipping point: caught up in the Green Revolution, the artist-designer was inspired to make relevant, wearable, sharp clothing for present and future.