Monday , November 16, 2009
Eco-Fashion: Pretty in wood pulp
This weekend I rented a pickup truck and drove out to the desert to drink date shakes and swim in naturally lithium-infused water and listen to the Desert Sessions record with PJ Harvey over and over and over.
On the way there I magically ended up stopping at Desert Hills Premium Outlets, where there's Dior and Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci and YSL and, you know, Charlotte Russe. I spent the most time at Space, just to touch the Prada dresses and shoes and make lovey eyes at a furry handbag I wanted badly to take home and keep as my pet. Weirdly, they were playing the Six Feet Under score - not the main theme, but the really emotive piano stuff that comes on whenever Nate cries. (I still don't understand.)
My favorite thing, though, was at Barneys, a sweet little short-sleeve jersey Velvet dress that you could probably live in forever. I've been loving Velvet a long time now, especially because they sometimes use green fabrics like lyocell, aka Tencel. (It's a biodegradable fiber made from wood pulp, produced on farms that rapidly replant their trees. The manufacturers also recycle almost all their chemical solvents, so there's not much air and water pollution generated.)
Velvet's Romance Languages dress (left) is lyocell; the sash is beautiful black satin. The lyocell gives it the most perfect drape, and the shirred jersey makes me swoon. The best part: It's on sale now at Anthropologie ($150 instead of $198). Usually anything bow-adorned in any way freaks me out, but here it's so classic and sweet I kind of want to marry it.
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