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Permacouture Institute is an educational non-profit for regenerative design in fashion and textiles. Permacouture Institute supports healthy integration between nature and culture. We encourage cross-pollination between sustainability movements and preservation of traditional textile methods, sparking innovation in the process. We work with hands-on grassroots projects to support sustainability and textiles. We research sustainable plant-based dyes and recycled fibers, and consult and educate in the realm of sustainable textiles by looking closely at patterns already found in nature. Permacouture Institute was founded to encourage creativity in where our materials come from and the social practice that supports it. Over-consumption and toxic run-off from the clothing and textile industry has increased environmental and cultural degradation. We specifically target healthy practices and encourage the exploration and implementation of regenerative design from the smallest seed to the wellspring of new growth. Clothing and textiles have long been connected not only to material necessity, but also to celebration of culture, ethno-botany, creative re-use and innate sense of place. Permacouture Institute explores fashion and textiles from a dynamic and ecological perspective, offering optimal solutions for change. See our website, www.permacouture.org for more information. Email us at info@permacouture.org Sasha Duerr sasha@permacouture.org Katelyn Toth-Fejel katelyn@permacouture.org

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June 10, 2011
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Flora Fashion-Permacouture + UC Botanical Garden 2011 Green Gala

CELEBRATE BIODIVERSITY!


A FASHION COLLECTION INSPIRED BY THE GARDEN COLLECTION

Regenerative design nurtures awareness, accountability and responsibility in our approach to clothing through the use of plant-based dyes and fibers, and reclaimed textiles. The 2011 UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley,  Green Gala Fashion Show, curated by Permacouture Institute, features talented designers with sustainable methods who are designing unique pieces inspired from the Garden’s global plant collection. It’s innovative-gorgeous-fashion-for and from plants!”

With public support the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley preserves and maintains one of the world’s most diverse living plant collections including over 2,200 rare and endangered plants from around the world. The Garden serves as an outdoor laboratory for thousands of students, helping them to appreciate the essential role that plants have to all life on Earth: from the air we breathe….to the food we eat…and the clothes we wear.

   Botanical Beauties…Styled with Plants of the Garden by Hair and Make-up Force of Nature Shawn Burke

                                                                 Adie+George’s Equisetum Inspiration

                        Cory Brown and Cassidy Wright of The Moon’s Slow Fashioned Florals         

Fern Dye Sans-Mordant

California Native Dye with Coast Live Oak

Scouring-rush Rainbow

                            Angelina DeAntonis of Ocelot’s California Madrone Inspiration

                                                                           

           Stars+Ravens-Green Gala Designer 2011 Sarah Borruso’s Oak Gall Ink for Plant-painted Paper Birch Inspired Fabric…

For more flora fashion images and more on both the UC Botanical Garden and the Green Gala 2011 Designers…visit Permacouture Institute’s Green Gala 2011 Blog!

                                                                                                          -Sasha