The highlight of New York Fashion Week for sustainable style aficionados had to be the SANS show, which took place this Saturday at the Daryl Roth theatre in Union Square. We loved SANS’ spring line so much, we couldn’t help but have the highest hopes for the Fall collection of eco-friendly fashion, which utilizes all organic and sustainable materials such as bamboo, tussah silk, and organic cotton and wool, in innovative, deconstructed shapes. As anticipated, the SANS show didn’t disappoint. Read on for highlights from the fall collection…
First and foremost, SANS just makes the best socks ever – hands down! Check out these holey knee socks paired with unbelievably hot United Nude EAMZ shoes. Rrrrrrow!
Fabulous United Nude EAMZ ankle boots
Holey Eco-socks!
SANS Double Faced Wool Coat, paired with holey soy socks and United Nude shoes
In addition to the great socks, there were plenty of covetable overcoats and dresses on display here, such as the double-faced wool coat, the puffy white wool coat, and the beautiful silver silk dress paired with holey socks and charcoal alpaca gloves.
As expected, SANS had plenty of bold, architectural, deconstructed items that were gorgeous but hard to imagine wearing on the street. I loved this Princess Amidala-ish Lemon Yellow Silk dress, but imagine it would take a daring individual to pull it off.
More practical and wearable was this adorable wool pouch jacket with the perfect built in hand warmer that could do double duty as mini marsupial storage.
We also liked this baby blue alpaca sweater shown above.
This slouchy sillk blouse and pant combination was quite beautiful and would make a great alternative to a dress for more formal occasions.
Finally, we’d have to commend SANS on their fabulous gift-bags, which included Escama purses, Green&Black Organic Chocolate and Farmaesthetics body lotions.
SANS’ spring line will be available at a number of New York City retail stores starting in March, including Inhabitat’s neighborhood eco-retailer Kaight.
For photos of the greenest of New York Fashion week, check out our Flickr feed >
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You can keep it! It might be green but it’s certainly the ugliest line I ever saw!
ugly? i think it’s innovative and really great work. down with polar fleece!
jill, do they have a design studio in new york?
absolutely loooveeeee the shoes!! Extemely innovative but find the colors stereotypical of “green” design
Hm. Strange…
Great to see forwardthinking designers come up with such brilliant creations. we are putting up the inaugural EthnoDesignFashion Week, 5-8 December 2007, Harare, with a special focus on ecological designs.
We are pleased to invite all interested designers, individuals and concerned organisations to be part of this event. More info is available at or email mashati@operamail.com