Sies Marjan’s Fall 2020: Born Out of a Collaboration to Dye For

Dr. Denise Green creates with a solution in mind. Green, an assistant professor in the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design at Cornell University, began naturally dying fabrics almost four years ago, looking to make textile and apparel production more sustainable. And just recently Green’s work was celebrated at New York Fashion Week when the Cornell Natural Dye studio collaborated with Sies Marjan for its fall collection. “The collaboration between Sies Marjan and the Cornell Natural Dye studio brought science, design, and sustainability together by drawing inspiration from the Guggenheim’s Rem Koolhaas exhibition, ‘Countryside, The Future’,” said Green. The collaboration began with Green’s team supplying Sies Marjan creative director, Sander Lak and his team with imagery of the dye work created in the Natural Dye Studio. “We have explored so many different printing and dyeing techniques over the past five years — from contact-dyeing (bundling and eco-printing) to traditional vat dyeing — so, we showed Lak examples of our work and the range of colors we could achieve,” said Green. “We also explained how the hue, chroma, and value of potential colors will change depending on the dye technique, mordants used, pH of the dye bath, water quality and other variables.” The Sies

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