So going along the lines of retailers teaming up with fashion students and coming up with something wonderful, I have a suggestion for any retailer out there (well, Topshop would be the natural bet...) to rope in Pia Stanchina, a student at Central Saint. Martins and get her to do an overly fashion forward line using sustainable materials. This collection you see here is made entirely out of sustainable materials and quite frankly I haven't seen eco fashion at this sort of conceptual level. My beef with eco/sustainable/organic fashion has previously been that nothing in the existing collections of that ilk excites me enough. Harsh words but now that it has been established that sustainable or organic materials exist in the world, it's time to start using the stuff in an innovative way. Line after line of t-shirts and canvas totes isn't going to take things up a notch. So whilst Stanchina's designs are an extreme, for me they demonstrate that a gear is being stepped up in her chosen field of eco luxury fashion. Note the addition of 'luxury', denoting that something wondrous or magical can come out of the original guilt-free and environmentally sound ideas. Eco warrior saints can be extravagantly dressed too...
