Dramatic detailing, vibrant colors, rich fabrics, organic?
It's not what you expect from couture, but one local designer is devoted to using sustainable fabrics in fashion.
"This skirt is organic cotton and dyed with natural dyes, " says Lindsay Weatherread.
Of another piece she designed she says, "It's made out of reclaimed leather or refurbished fabric or organic cotton." I ask her, "What is about green materials that speaks to you?" She says, "I thought if I'm going to do fashion design and I'm going to be a fashion designer, I want to do something to help out."
Lindsay is showing her spring collection in the Organic Couture Fashion Show this Wednesday at the Discovery Gardens, and the Campbell Wagner Runway Division is putting on the event, using their models to show off Lindsay's clothes. She says, "It's stretch cotton, it has a really cool shine to it, and the bottom is reclaimed linen, with latice work on top of it."
I ask, "What would you say is the most high fashion piece and what's a little more wearable for the everyday girl?" And she says, "It's an a-line pencil, so the everyday girl can definitely wear this." Adding rouching to the sides makes it interchangeable and two skirts in one.
Lindsay says, "And this is out of organic cotton that's hand dyed, so you have a really cool color out of it." But there's definitely glam in the lie as well. She describes her look as 'origami for the body' and no doubt she's creating wearable art, with an organic twist.
As Kate Wagner, of Campbell Wager Runway, says, "She is living proof that it does work and it can be very, very fashionable."
It's not what you expect from couture, but one local designer is devoted to using sustainable fabrics in fashion.
"This skirt is organic cotton and dyed with natural dyes, " says Lindsay Weatherread.
Of another piece she designed she says, "It's made out of reclaimed leather or refurbished fabric or organic cotton." I ask her, "What is about green materials that speaks to you?" She says, "I thought if I'm going to do fashion design and I'm going to be a fashion designer, I want to do something to help out."
Lindsay is showing her spring collection in the Organic Couture Fashion Show this Wednesday at the Discovery Gardens, and the Campbell Wagner Runway Division is putting on the event, using their models to show off Lindsay's clothes. She says, "It's stretch cotton, it has a really cool shine to it, and the bottom is reclaimed linen, with latice work on top of it."
I ask, "What would you say is the most high fashion piece and what's a little more wearable for the everyday girl?" And she says, "It's an a-line pencil, so the everyday girl can definitely wear this." Adding rouching to the sides makes it interchangeable and two skirts in one.
Lindsay says, "And this is out of organic cotton that's hand dyed, so you have a really cool color out of it." But there's definitely glam in the lie as well. She describes her look as 'origami for the body' and no doubt she's creating wearable art, with an organic twist.
As Kate Wagner, of Campbell Wager Runway, says, "She is living proof that it does work and it can be very, very fashionable."
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