vantage by being environmentally friendly. Outfits made of straw have yet to take off, although they were playfully attempted by famous designers Jean Paul Gaultier, in his 2006 collection, and Alex- ander McQueen, in 2011, who created a corset dress of interwoven straw and designs combining straw and textiles. But we’re now witnessing the arrival of Bio2™! is is a material that’s produced from straw fibres just as cotton fabrics are produced from raw cotton. Introduced only recently, it is still in the experimen- tal phase and thus hasn’t yet entered into mass pro- duction. Finnish designer Rolf Ekroth, the creator of this innovative material, presented a men‘s collection made from materials produced by a special method of processing straw. According to him, the process of producing straw textiles is less damaging to the envi- ronment than the processing of cotton, while there are huge resources available – as straw is a by-product of
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wheat, barley, rye and oats. ere is a little more re- search ahead, but we’ll soon be wearing straw dresses instead of cotton ones. In a fashion sense, we’ve already exonerated straw accessories, and we hope that straw outfits will soon follow. In the meantime, however, we can rejoice in items of furniture and details produced from natu- ral materials. As movements that strive to reduce the polluting of the planet gain momentum and we raise our awareness of our own responsibilities, so design- ers serve up trends to decorate our homes with natu- ral materials, as well as accompanying home accesso- ries. So, perhaps you could just add a small basket for sundries, arrange flowers in a basket instead of a dec- orative pot, or buy a rattan floor mat. You could buy a chair or chest of drawers decorated with Spanish reeds, or cane balcony furniture. And will the future textile industry be able to rely on straw as a new source of environmentally friend- ly raw materials? at’s something we’ve yet to see...
Lagana, prozračna, prirodna, divne zlataste boje i glatka na dodir, slama nije novost u modi, ali se definitivno preselila sa plaža u grad Light, translucent and natural, with a beautiful golden hue and smoothness of touch, straw is nothing new to fashion, but it has definitely relocated from the beach to the city
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