“Amen to that,” says Cindy Greene when I pay compliments to their continued use of recycled materials—she and Johnson Hartig got their start screenprinting Midwestern thrift store finds. “And we shook off the skull.” Formerly their signature image, which spawned many imitators high and low.
Recycling ideas or eras is tricky business, and fashion designers do it a lot. (This season, the ’80s. Groan. Strawberry, Forever 21, H&M, Rainbow…I could go on and on about the cheapie tweenager stores for whom the ’80s has been and continues to be a staple. But hey, if you want to give $1200 to Marc Jacobs to do it for you, be my guest!) But to make use of actual recycled goods—this should be the real future in fashion.
At Libertine, the future meets the past, like rummagers sorting through a dump in the English countryside and applying their pictographic language. Books are something you wear, not read. Also aptly timed: This Italo Calvino short story in the New Yorker this week.
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