| LIKA AND ALEX FROM SANS AT IED MADRID |
They flew in from across the Atlantic on a sunny Thursday morning. While they were speaking in front of over a couple of hundred heart-taken fashion students and professionals for two complete hours non-stop, I tried my best not to hug them compulsively as I translated their intense experiences building up SANS, a very personal and groundbreaking sustainable brand based in NYC. Awarded the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award last year, SANS combines Lika’s vision on form and functional design with Alessandro’s know how on eco-conscious textiles such as soy fiber, bamboo, organic cotton and wild silk. But beyond materials, they search for real meaning, genuine sustainability and functionality, bringing about beautiful aesthetic pieces. They both act sweet and plain as if their minds and hearts were not filled with the most brilliant ideas and avant-garde concepts in the fashion world today. That is who they were, just Alessandro and Lika wandering around the city streets in Madrid…Now, THAT is luxury…
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