Bamboo Boom
Ginny Chien is an editor at Angeleno.
It’s been an eco-friendly staple in flooring and furniture for years, and now it’s gaining new ground with style hounds. Fashion designers knit with its distinctive fibers (which feel like a cross between rayon and cotton), and beauty companies tap its sap for skin-nourishing serums. You can eat it and drink it too. Guess that’s why they call it the plant of a thousand uses.