Linda Loudermilk

Bamboo pointelles and soya blends go into clothes that honor nature in ethos, and then they go back into the earth. And there's no need to sacrifice style, because if nature doesn't make apologies, then neither should the people who fortify, fear and believe in it.

As for that style: Forget hemp tunics. In fact, forget hemp entirely. The Loudermilk line is all about refinement - polished, put-together looks that happen to be made from sustainable fabrics and that don't just happen to have that raw and rough around the edges something that make them modern. These are clothes that pack an iconoclastic punch, from noirish suits to sculpturally sexy shift dresses to jeans cut deadly on the hip. That flair for the dramatic comes innately to Linda Loudermilk, who once studied Shakespeare and costume design at Oxford University in England; so too does Loudermilk's intuitive sense of tailoring, passed down from her couturier grandmother. After practicing as a sculptor, Loudermilk honed her design skills at the Colorado Institute and on the Paris runway, and then she returned to Los Angeles to launch Linda Loudermilk and with it, the luxury eco™ movement. Sustainable style is already terra incognita, but for Loudermilk, the pioneering has only just begun. Like nature herself, she's got more foundations to shake.