NY designer Suma Chander produces sustainable fashion

In the face of Global Warming, ethical fashion remains a crucial topic in today’s fashion industry. New York-based luxury womenswear designer Suma Chander demonstrates support for sustainable fashion through use of natural, raw textiles and repurposed fabrics in her line. In addition, Chander’s line now helps fund a new humanitarian organization, whose aim is to provide access to clean water in developing countries.

Cultivated by a childhood spent in India, Chander possesses an innate eye and hand for fine fabrics as well as a natural aversion to synthetic fibers, due to its significant carbon footprint. Rather, Chander incorporates raw silks, wools and other natural fibers in her collections of opulent cocktail and evening attire.