They supplement their own supply of finished wool with cashmere from China.
Gettle, 29, who spins her own yarn with wool from their five rams, then turned a bedroom into a craft room for her spinning wheel.
Francisco Costa said that he too was inspired by Russia, but his was more on the military side with belted jackets with squared shoulders worn with wool or leather skirts.
FORBES: NYFW Fall '13 Day 8: Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs
Her offerings include a plum-colored halter dress covered in satin flowers, a more tailored dress in black wool with more sharply cut flowers, and a white sheer man-tailored shirt paired with black evening shorts and a full-cut long black coat.
Michael Kors this month showed a coat worn with shorts, while Vera Wang showed dark-colored sleeveless fur coats and wool shrugs with light chiffon dresses in colorful spring-like prints.
"I was fed up with wrapping wool around pipes that somebody else had built, " he relates.
It was a piece of wool interwoven with lycra fibers to give it natural stretch.
Orphaned, they need a substitute mother, like Silva with her wool bag kept close to her body.
And it appeared once more for the final, show-ending garment: a long wool gown with tulle insets.
Yes: baseball, sitting over there with its wool cap and its smelly pipe.
And she has heavy black wool coats with strong shoulders and fitted waists.
For the fall, they are offering a limited number of recycled sailcloth totes, IPod cases and shave kits that are lined with Woolrich wool.
As an example, she cited her very first item at Tuesday's presentation: A sleeveless gray wool jumper with a low V-neck and white button-down shirt attached inside.
For fall, she gets a black-and-oyster lame dress, a metallic tweed suit and a jet-black silk and wool gown with a beaded back, cutout bodice and mermaid hemline.
It all felt slightly less aggressive than last season when we saw dark monkish hoods, black knit elbow-length fingerless gloves and mysterious wool tailoring with twill suits and leather jackets.
FORBES: Simon Spurr Proves You Don't Have To Wear Tweed In The Country
He stuck mostly with pant suits, wool shift or trapeze dresses and coats in solids, accented with a sprinkling of white-and-black stripes and large leaf prints in autumnal red, orange-red, green, purple and a rich deep blue.
It was a week that was heavy with suits like at Burberry Prorsum where the models walked the runway in gray wool suits under puffer jackets with newsboy caps and umbrellas like corporate men braving the harsh winter to report to work.
FORBES: Actors As Models And Conservatism Are Buzzwords At Men's Shows In Milan
Another collection is constructed from the sturdy, stain- and water-resistant wool tweeds paired with English bridle leather and lined with canvas.
FORBES: Fraser Balgowan: From the Scottish Highlands to Fifth Avenue
What she showed was modern elegance by way of minimalist coats and dresses made from cashmere, wool or mixed with pony hair.
FORBES: NYFW Fall '13 Day 4: Victoria Beckham, DKNY, Diane Von Furstenberg, Tommy Hilfiger Women
At the former, both a track jacket and a longer, tailored wool coat come with a quilted poplin vest that can be worn independently.
It was paired with a sandstone wool jacket and matching pant.
The first look out was a refined black wool sleeveless coat with an exaggerated arm and capelike collar that was paired with a racer-neckline shift dress.
Butting and shaking, the animal, covered with shaggy black wool, looks as if he is either going to rip the tree from the ground or sacrifice a piece of his head.
Outlier now makes an OG blazer and winterized OG pants with an extrafine merino wool inner face.
Girbaud, for instance, makes a wool and spandex skirt with an uneven hem, laser cutwork and random, permanent pleats.
Knit-Chicks meet regularly at various London venues and say anyone with a ball of wool is welcome to join.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | London | Chicks knit at first flick meet
His orgone-energy accumulator, or orgone box, as it became known, resembled a wooden telephone booth lined with metal sheeting and steel wool.
While the market for the service has dropped a bit with the trend away from wool and toward natural fibers, Cook says he regularly stores upward of 500 boxes in numerical and alphabetic order.
应用推荐