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subscribe to style file blog via RSSmiguel adrover goes back to nature, german-style
May 20, 2008 4:27 pm
Miguel Adrover was in town today to show pieces from his fall capsule collection for Hess Natur, an environmentally conscious German label started out of a garage in 1976 (”that’s usually an American story,” joked CEO Wolf Luedge). Among Adrover’s designs are a hooded trench made with organic cotton and wool and treated with water-repellant beeswax rather than chemicals, a process that’s unique to the company. All of the furs used are by-products of the meat industry and are tanned with vegetables and tree bark instead of chrome. “I’m learning so much,” said Adrover, who signed up for a five-year stint. “Before I was just preaching about social consciousness, but now I know I’m doing something good.” And how’s the Mallorcan adjusting to (part-time) life in Germany? “It’s different. At the end of the day we all eat at a common table—and they don’t let me smoke!” Hess Natur will be available via catalog in the United States; go to www.hess-natur.com to sign up for one.
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