Taking Inspiration from a New Text

One of the books to recently inspire Sew Aware designers is Eco Fashion (Laurence King Publishing, 2010). Katy Mike picked up a copy from the Missouri Botanical Garden's "Garden Gate Shop," much to everyone's delight back in the studio.

In the book, Sass Brown, a full-time professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, reveals her guidebook to the multiple facets of ecological design, as well as the players who are charting this nascent but vital terrain. Above all, Brown’s tome is a historical record. “I feel that eco-fashion has reached a tipping point,” she told Ecouterre, “where the best of the best are simply the best in the industry. And that needs to be recorded, celebrated, and communicated.”