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Sunday Visit: Regional Couture With Celeste Malvar-Stewart

This week on Sunday Visit, we catch up with Celeste Malvar-Stewart, a Filipino American fashion and fiber artist who focuses on sustainable design, emphasizing the importance of slow fashion within one of the most harmful industries. Celeste works with Ohio family farms to obtain luxury wool and alpaca fiber to create her hand-felted textiles and ethereal couture fashion, using all natural materials; emphasizing the unique and beautiful textures through natural dyes that she grows, forages, and obtains from Botanical Colors! She has exhibited her work in various museums and galleries, and is widely published both nationally and internationally. Celeste is … Read more

Malvar=Stewart Fuses Natural Dyes with Local Sound

Celeste Malvar-Stewart recently wrote to us: “I have to share this image with you because I am so excited to be able to use the dyestuff I’ve gotten from you for my special collection! I am collaborating with a local musician here in Columbus on the Local Sound Project…my eco couture collection of 8 hand felted and naturally dyed (all with your dyes) pieces that translate the musician’s sound waves from his 8 songs onto each piece. His music incorporates sounds from around the city and local vocalists our runway show at the Fashion Meets Music Festival will feature the … Read more