MAJOR SHIFT
IF JEAN SEBERG and Anna Karina could have lessened the environmental impact of their shift dresses, our bet is they would have. The little black dress, inspired by the classic trapeze shape , today gets a rework thanks to new label The Sustainabilist Line. The LBD – or Little Black Smart Dress (LBSD) as co-founders and siblings Sarah and Nick King have coined it – is made from recycled bottles, but there’s an important caveat. The purchaser enters into an agreement to return to the manufacturer when the wearer is finished with it. “We’ve built ‘taking a little responsibility’ into the dress,” Sarah King says. This is done by scanning the LBSD’s sewn-in tech on a mobile device that alerts the maker it is ready for pickup, hence saving it from landfill. Sarah King created the dress with Sydney Dance Company costume designer Aleisa Jelbart, engineering it for maximum movement and versatility – a second-skin LBD, and smart at that. Elegant and clever:
