Williamsburg Greenpoint News & Arts is featuring five images from my eco-fashion project Spirits in the Material World: Portraits of Sustainability.
Spirits in the Material World began as a response to the disastrous 1957 oil spill in Newtown Creek, an offshoot of the East River between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The work focuses on local, women designers working within the strict Vegan/Green/Eco guidelines to make imaginative, environmentally earth conscious clothing as a counterpoint to chemically dependent consumerism and the toxic ramifications it hazards.
Set in the polluted and construction-laden neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Greenpoint in Brooklyn, these images juxtapose the purity of Eco-clothing with the industrialization of the neighborhoods. Using reflections in cars and windows to tell two stories at once, the clothing and recycled trash couture offers a solution to staving off climate change amidst the chaos of forsaken Mobil stations, the abundance of smoke stacks and polluted rivers.
Designers active in this project are:
Ryann
Mociun
Nature Vs Future
Sublet Clothing
Stylist: Tara Sharpe
Make-up: Talya Siegel
