On the Up
As we give greater importance to SUSTAINABILITY in
our lives, a whole new generation of designers is
UPCYCLING fashion’s past for a chic and responsible
future. Photographed by Tierney Gearon.Promised Land
from far left: At the Eagle Street Rooftop
Farm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, model Tasha
Tilberg wears a Bite organic-cotton trench coat
($1,200), shirt ($355), and organic-wool pants
($380); bitestudios.com. Model Lindsey Wixson
(standing) wears an integrated cotton trench
coat and wool jacket ($1,350) from CDLM;
Dover Street Market New York, NYC. Andrea
Pascu’s Lindsey Berns patchwork jacket ($265;
lindseyberns.com) is made from a vintage
quilt, itself fashioned from cotton feed-sack
fabrics dating to the early 1900s. Model Liu
Wen wears a Stella McCartney wool-felting
overcoat, $2,975; net-a-porter.com. Ralph
Lauren Collection blazer (worn underneath,
$1,690) and pants ($1,190); ralphlauren.com.
Fashion Editor: Alex Harrington.