If anyone knows anything about upcycled fashion, it's designer, nay, visionary JoAnn Berman. She was dreaming, cutting, and Frankensteining up new garments from vintage and found fabrics long before the term "eco-fashion" was first uttered. At New York Fashion Week's the GreenShows on Monday, Berman's "Thunderbirds" collection was so retina-searing that the designer herself donned sunglasses for her final bow (or rather, dance) on the runway. Don't believe us? Click on through our slideshow.
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JoAnn Berman‘s presentation at the GreenShows during New York Fashion Week was a fun-filled reflection of her personality: imaginative, eclectic, and anything but staid. The New York designer, who made a name for herself outfitting hip hop artists in the ’90s, was upcycling vintage garments before many of her models were even born, so she knows a thing or two about how to make sustainable fashion really pop. Filled with unexpected pattern pairings and embellishments galore, Berman’s blisteringly colored collection positively sizzled on the runway.
[...] Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart / Vaute Couture, Melissa Kirgan & Xing-Zhen Chung-Hilyard / Eko-Lab, JoAnn Berman, Lizz Wasserman / [...]