Taryn Hipwell

Taryn Hipwell is the founder and creator of EcoDivas TV show and EcoDivasTV.com website. The goal of EcoDivas TV is to create awareness and build communities that focus on Eco film, fashion, cosmetics and food by sharing information from different cities around the world. Recently, Taryn has taken on a new role - she is an enthusiastic, ethical, sharp writer/producer/host committed to creating super fun fashionable reality TV shows that encourage socially responsible and sustainability. Taryn is from Pittsburgh. She studied Fashion Design and Art Therapy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Screenwriting through the UCLA Extension Program. She worked for designer Anna Sui in New York, and styled films and celebrities, while assisting director David Zucker in Los Angeles. Her unique re-purposed Kimono Quilt can be seen on HGTV's the Antonio Treatment and her recycled tissue paper "Alexander McQueen replica dress" was recently featured in Paper Magazine. Taryn teaches "Eco Fashion" specialty classes such as "Sustainability and the Fashion Industry" at FIDM as well as "Recycled Fashion" at Environmental Charter High School and Youth Environmental Network Zambia in Africa. She has decided to connect the two cultures and created "Designers Make a Difference" - an Eco Fashion exchange camp that teaches youth from the US and Africa how to turn waste into fashion whilst taking care of our beautiful planet. Taryn is a 2013 Los Angeles Business Journal - Women Making a Difference Award nominee.