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"The clothes hanging in Lydia Wendt’s loft atelier in Los Angeles’ Fashion
District shimmer in earthy tones: an orange sleep set dyed with California
poppies, a coral lounge set colored with madder root, undyed tees in off-white
cotton. Pointing to the dark disk of a dried sunflower, Wendt explains, “The
Navajo used this to dye fabric black, and I’m trying to find a rich natural
black.” Nearby, a dried indigo branch pinned to a white pegboard hints at her
latest experiment, naturally dyed blue athletic wear. Across oversized
worktables, swatches in shifting shades of lavender and plum suggest the studio
is part dye lab, part textile archive, part manifesto.
Wendt, founder of California Cloth Foundry, is trying to build a fashion system
that behaves more like a healthy ecosystem than a conventional apparel
business. Her garments are made from American-grown fibers, dyed largely with
plants instead of petrochemicals, and designed to be compostable at the end of
their life cycle. Her goal is not to make clothing “less bad,” but to create
what she calls regenerative fashion: garments that can ultimately return
nutrients to the soil rather than accumulate as waste.
“One solution while we’re trying to readjust our consumerism and our values
around [overconsumption] is to create things that can go back to the earth
without any detrimental effects,” she says."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
