Remote Lands

Respect for nature and the planet influences this fashion customer as she strives to stay green and keep herself in check, ecologically speaking. Her concerns revolve around making a difference in her community and living a lifestyle that reflects her awareness of what nature has to offer.

Organic fabrics, natural fibers, hand crafted looks, preservation of precious materials, carvings, etchings, fringing and fraying are some of the details incorporated into accessories and apparel. Watch for a resurgence of capes, capelets, even ruanas, influenced by the mountain people of Peru as well as hand-painted wood beads, irregular shapes, ceramics, vegetable-dyed yarns, hairy knits and rugged wovens. This trend combines folklore with farmland with high regard for living off the land.