The Style Maven
By Su Avasthi

Buying gifts for the Style Maven is simple, once you understand the priorities you're working with: Aesthetics are as important as eco-friendliness. Eco-chic is the Style Maven's mantra, so long as the emphasis is on chic. Fortunately, there is no shortage of cutting-edge design created with sustainable or recycled materials available these days. Here's a list of earth-friendly goodies that are sure to please the most discerning person in your life.

Portable Art
The tagline for Relan Billboard Bags is "you'll never look at billboards the same way again." Judging from their incredibly cool line of one-of-kind bags, they're right. Old billboards, constructed of heavy-duty nylon to withstand the elements, are refashioned into stylish street gear. Their small items - like pencil pouches, sunglass cases and luggage tags - make a big statement.

What: Pencil pouch
Cost: $11.95
Where: BTC Elements

Eco-Chic in ‘da Hood
Stewart+Brown, a leader in luxury eco-chic clothing, has a hip 100% organic cotton hoody, detailed with puckering the button placket. Its lean fit has a look that is both body-conscious and cozy. Even more modern is its pale water blue shade that's achieved through a reactive dye process that has minimal environmental impact.

What: Stewart+Brown Thermal Pucker Hoody
Cost: $86
Where: Greenloop

A Style Bible
Style-conscious types will be able to hunker down with the newly revised edition of ecoDesign: The Sourcebook, by U.K. green design professor Alastair Fuad-Luke. Considered the bible of sustainable design, the coffee table book has 352 pages of possibilities for gorgeous, responsibly produced furniture and household products, ranging from solar lawn mowers to cozy felt slippers.

What: ecoDesign: The Sourcebook
Cost: $35
Buy It At Lime

Kitchen Luxuries
Who says that kitchen towels can't be art? No one who has seen the eye-popping textiles from Dermond Peterson Design. The Milwaukee design team uses fine-art printmaking techniques to make towels patterned with food images, such as sardines, mussels, basil and, our favorite, a slice of lime. The towels printed by hand with water-based inks free of solvents and metals on washable Egyptian linen and cotton.

What: Lime Slice kitchen towel
Cost: $18
Buy It At Lime