While the rest of us were screen-printing on Saturday, Emily Tappenden, our resident fashion guru whipped up this beautiful wrap dress in our freshly printed Marguerite design. The eco-fabric we have used is a very exciting 55% hemp/45% PET muslin. Hemp is a wonderful sustainable, natural fibre and PET (short for Polyethylene terephthalate) is made of from 100% recycled plastic bottles. While I am not a big fan of synthetics, you have to love the fact that this fabric is utilising what would otherwise end up in land-fill and and isn't depleting the Earth's natural resources in its production.
We have sampled another blouse from the same fabric and have printed, washed, dried and pressed it and it has fared remarkably well. And speaking of recycling, what do you think of our in-house mannequin Justine (so-named by Emily)? A friend rescued her from being dumped by a major clothing chain store. It is incredible how many of these poor girls are tossed when they reach a certain age and are now longer shiny and new, kind of like real life?
And if you are wondering why Emily has yet to appear in any blog photos - it's because she is always hiding from the camera but I promise I will catch her soon.
I would really appreciate your feedback on our wrap dress from Thea & Sami's upcoming 2009 eco-fashion range.
