New York Fashion Week September 9-14th
In this post, I feature ten ready-to-wear brands that are designing and producing clothes made with innovative plant-based fabrics in their collections. They use innovative plant-based fabrics like rose stem, pina, raffia, aloe-treated linen, hemp, banana, and cotton in their collections.
All the designers featured in this post are going to be showcasing their SS ‘23 collections at New York Fashion Week, also called the American Collections Show September 9th-14th 2022. If you cannot attend the event you can watch the show online via Livestream at the NYFW website. The American Collection Show includes international brands as well as brands from America.
Many brands do not make a lot of clothing out of plant-based fabrics. Brands that produce clothing made with plant-based fabrics are supporting the circular fashion movement and the plastic-free movement. They also support the sustainable fashion movement and the healthy fashion movement because plant-based fabrics are healthy to wear.
It was really nice to visit these brands' websites and see their inspiring collections. Many of them have a ‘Sustainability' and/or an ‘About’ tab that explains the materials that they use and the different sustainability practices that they have. In this post, I will share a photo representing their brand.
This is a list of the designers/brands featured in this post:
Plant-based fashion movement
Some designers create capsule collections within their collections, and these capsule collections include plant-based fabrics made with sustainability in mind. Other brands have a lot of pieces produced in plant-based fabrics.
It is possible for every brand to produce a small or large amount of plant-based clothing. Producing clothes made with plants is a strength for these companies. The plant-based movement is the future of fashion, and a part of this plant-based movement is choosing to wear plant-based clothes because they are breathable, healthy, PH balanced, stimulate and improve the blood flow, hypoallergenic, ergonomic, and anti-stress because of the plant-human connection.
10 Plant-based looks
I'll be showcasing a photo that represents their brand, and I list the 1–5 types of plant-based fabrics used in their collections. I am not listing ALL the plant-based materials they use. I am listing a few of the most innovative types of plant-based fabrics they use.
Click the title above each photo to shop at the designer's website.
I also have quoted the description of each company-- a quote is directly quoted from their website.
1 COS
Photo credit: COS
“Modern, functional, considered design for women, men and kids.” - COS
Plant-based materials they include in their collections:
Organic hemp
Bananatex
Refribra™
NAIA™ cellulosic acetate
Photo Credit: Studio 189
“STUDIO ONE EIGHTY NINE is a collective of creatives that seeks to provide a platform to help promote and curate African and African-inspired content through various projects such as media and cultural events and projects.” - Studio 189
Plant-based materials they include in their collections:
Tencel
Pina
Recycled Cotton
Raffia (dried grass)
Photo Credit: Collina Strada
“Collina Strada is a platform for social issues and awareness by Hillary Taymour. Based and manufactured in New York, the brand is working toward becoming fully sustainable and radically transparent while offering fearlessly fluid and easy-to-wear clothes.” - Collina Strada
Plant-based materials they include in their collections:
Rose Sylk
Recycled cotton
4 Adeam
Photo credit: Adeam
“Hanako Maeda is the Founder and Creative Director of ADEAM— a brand with an ‘East meets West’ aesthetic that fuses inspiration sourced from Hanako’s upbringing spent between Tokyo and New York City.“ - Adeam
Plant-based materials they include in their collections:
Biomass cotton linen
Organic denim
Recycled cotton
Photo credit: Gabriela Hearst
“Gabriela Hearst is a luxury women’s and men’s ready-to-wear and accessories collection, built on the principles of timelessness, uncompromising quality and sustainability.” -
Plant-based materials they include in their collections:
Aloe-treated linen
Botanical-dyed knitwear
Cotton
6 Luar
Photo Credit: Luar
“LUAR is the reversed namesake label of Brooklyn-based designer Raul Lopez, former co-founder of Hood By Air. Of Dominican descent, Lopez began to design at the age of 12 and growing up was inspired by the fluidity of the downtown New York scene.“ - Luar
Plant-based materials they include in their collections:
Organically grown cotton
Photo credit: Tommy Hilfiger
“Founded in 1985, Tommy Hilfiger delivers premium styling, quality and value to consumers worldwide under the TOMMY HILFIGER and TOMMY JEANS labels” - Tommy Hilfiger Company
Plant-based materials they include in their collections:
Hemp
Organic cotton
Recycled denim
Photo Credit: Eckhaus Latta
“Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta are the founders of Eckhaus Latta, a New York and Los Angeles-based label that distinguishes itself from its peers with its gender-neutral designs and has built a reputation for casting models of all genders, ages, shapes and sizes in their runway shows and campaigns.” - Eckhaus Latta
Plant-based materials they include in their collections:
Cotton
9 Puma
Photo credit: Puma
“Sport is our world. This makes us passionate about designing, developing, selling and marketing footwear, apparel and accessories.”
Plant-based materials they include in their collections:
Footwear biotechnology using good bacteria to help the foot breathe
Cotton certified by Sustainable Cotton Initiative
Biodegradable fabric designed to fade
10 Melke
Photo Credit: Melke
“Emma is a New York based fashion designer focusing on designing and creating awareness around sustainability and ethical fashion”
Plant-based materials they include in their collections:
Organic hemp
Organic cotton
Hemp/cotton blend
Visit the New York Fashion Week calendar to see when all of these designers will showcase their fall/winter 2022 collections at the September 9th through 12th New York Fashion Week event. I look forward to seeing their collections in September.
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