NYFW – The Sustainable Choice
Miami-based media production company Planet Fashion TV was proud to present last February Sustainable New York Fashion Week, a boutique luxury exhibition that gave a glimpse of a completely sustainable world, featuring sustainable-only technology, travel, lifestyle, food, and fashion. The exhibition took place during the last New York Fashion Week, on Saturday, February 8th, 2020 at the popular NYC Chelsea Piers - Pier Sixty on 11th Avenue between W. 19th and 20th Street, from 11:00 AM - 10:00 PM.
Attendees explored and engaged with onsite activations of best-in-class technology that re-defines Sustainability as well as pop-shops with the best sustainable products and apparel. Panel discussions with leaders in sustainability and tech were held throughout the day, including a keynote from the United Nations Sustainable Development Specialist Francesca Zoppi. Fashion shows on the forefront of sustainability were presented in the suggestive hall facing the waterfront and spiced up with surprise musical performances.
The event presented innovative designers from around the world at the forefront of sustainable fashion. We mention the protagonists on the main shows.
Brazilian designer Silvia Vassão who creates luxury women’s couture hand-woven with hand-spun silk from Brazilian silkworms. She presented her brand Leafy Natural Couture.
New Yorker sustainable designer and teacher Bridgett Artise presented her brands Born Again Vintage and her initiative House of BAV, with which she gives vintage garments that have lost their luster another chance at being fashionable, recycling fabrics and textiles into timeless pieces.
New Zealand-born designer Debra Lee Cheyne who deconstructs and redesigns vintage and discarded apparel and fabrics to create chic women’s fashion wear presented her brand Butterscotch Castle.
Australian jewelry designer Angela Clarke, who creates sustainable and ethical jewelry pieces made of beads, stones, and Swarovski crystals, complemented and enriched the other designers’ creations.
Australian brand Bamboozld who manufactures socks and undergarments out of sustainable bamboo material had a real blast with a group of dynamic models and KINDOM, sustainable and ethical apparel and accessories brand based in Los Angeles.
Article and photos by Joseph Ralph Fraia @jrfstudio
Photo 1 and 2 Butterscotch Castle
Photo 3 and 4 Born Again Vintage
Photo 5 and 6 Bamboozld
Photo 7 and 8 Kindom
Photo 9 and 10 Leafy Natural Couture
