One to Watch: Suno
Last season, Brooklyn-by-way-of-Kenya based line Suno (designed by film director-turned-designer Max Osterweis) was made entirely out of vibrantly printed vintage kangas. Osterweis had collected the kangas (they're kind of like cotton sarongs) on trips to visit his mother in Kenya; fair-trade workers in Nairobi then stitched them together into fitted blazers, batwing sleeve blouses and barely-there minidresses.
This morning, what arrived on the shop floor at Opening Ceremony for fall '09 can only be described as Suno 2.0: the same gorgeously bold vintage-y ethnic patterns printed and sewn by the same local factories, but on brand new fabrics. So, happily, there are more of these covetable pieces--which still feel totally cool and one of a kind, are socially conscious, and retail from $150 on up to $600--to go around. Here's a sneak peak from the fall lookbook.
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