How a new generation of inventive menswear designers is changing the sustainability conversation
IN HER DOWNTOWN New York studio, Emily Adams Bode creates handsomely patchworked clothes that began life as those forgotten fabrics you find stacked haphazardly at flea markets.
Circa-1950s napkins in shades of cream are reconfigured as a button-up shirt while a pair of high-waisted trousers is made from a quilt comprising 1940s suiting pieces. When Ms. Bode encounters these materials during her global sourcing escapades, she thinks, “Oh my God, somebody’s going to throw this out if I don’t take it.” Now, in the form of her prized pieces, those salvaged materials are fetching four figures in high-end department stores.
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