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How Do You Wear Your Indie Fashion

by trish on September 24, 2008

Name: Laura Larson
Occupation: Designer (of whosiepie)
Location: East Bumble, East Coast

This is my husband and I on our wedding day — just about a month ago.
Photo by Nancy Dion
I am wearing a MERGIRL COUTURE custom gown — bias-cut silk charmeuse with a vintage, cotton crochet {ahem} tablecloth (old) for starters.

Photo by Nancy Dion
Custom sterling silver earrings (new) by DINA VARANO. A FOUNDLING “poppy” hair pin (borrowed)

Photo by Nancy Dion

and a really amazing pair of SALVATORE FERRAGAMO (blue) wedges.

My husband is wearing JOHN VARVATOS pinstriped trousers, shirt by ROBERT GRAHAM, vest by PENGUIN and shoes by REEF.

What’s your favorite piece of clothing?
Eggplant STEWART+BROWN organic cotton longsleeved tee. Several years old. Many, many washings. Love it.

What 3 things can’t you live without?
My Beautiful Husband
Hot Sauce (Challulah, namely)
Coffee

What one word describes you most?
Observant

If you would like to be featured in this segment, How Do You wear Your Indie Fashion, please email me trish@smashingdarling.com. Let the community see who you are and what you are wearing. It is a great way to give a shout out to your favorite indie designers.

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Button Graveyard

by trish on April 24, 2008

It has brought to my attention by the lovely girls at Compai that a button factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn was demolished with all it’s beautiful contents of ribbons and buttons still inside. The site is a graveyard to thousands of buttons. It really is too bad that no one considered contacting anyone in the indie design community to come collect the contents, clean it up to use it or donate it. There are lots of organizations out there that would have loved the donation.

New York’s premier reuse center

Scrap

Encouraging creative expression in the arts
and promoting a greater understanding of environmental issues

Here are some cool designers that embrace recycling to check out from Smashing Darling.

Recycled by Hyena linen top made from recycled fabric

Angela Johnson ballgown made of recycled t-shirts

Foundling using recycled old Maps

Steven Shaver Designs recycled bobbin Earrings

Go Robot uses recycled acrylic

Other great sites for recycling are Freecycle, and Craigslist. This is all good info to keep in the back of our heads next time we have a things that need to be passed onto their next rightful owner, rather than becoming part of a landfill. Please, leave a comment and share any other organizations that help and encourage recycling.

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