During New York Fashion Week, 28 top designers dazzled New York with cutting edge eco-friendly fashions on the runway. Renewable, reusable, non-polluting fabrics such as organic cotton and wool, bamboo, corn-based fibers, recycled fibers and biopolymers were transformed into everything from elegant couture to street wear. [from earth pledge]
Abigail Doan attended the event – she says:
The show’s tagline, ‘It’s not about this season – It’s about every season’, is an indication of where we might be headed in terms of our outlook on style, attitudes towards dressing, and our intimate relationship with the planet that we harvest our clothing’s fibers from.
[image of hemp fibre from Abigail Doan left and eco spun (made from from recycled soda bottles) from Etsy labs right]
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sounds fantastic, lets hope its not just yet another fashion trend!
It sounds great, I hope more people make it, its cheap, it can felt, its recycled, I’ve thought about cutting those large bottles into thin strips and trying to crochet or knit with that, but this is definately better