From the studio No.45
SARAH POLAND wins Most Sustainable Designer at Pembrokeshire Fashion Festival
It’s been a full-tilt autumn.
In August, I previewed my first collection, FERAL COLOUR - A Plant Dyed Collection, at Ffwrn in Fishguard - right at the far edge of West Wales, just a jump and a leap to Ireland - a beautiful, slightly wild old stone church hall with soaring ceilings, a wood-fired oven blazing at one end and a tiny stage pulsing with DJs at the other. I showed FERAL COLOUR, a collection dyed entirely with plants; fellow sustainable designer Jolette Le Roux presented Re-Collection; and Feral Pig Wines paired organic bottles with local cheeses from Clare at Newport Health. It was a surreal little ecosystem of fashion, food, colour and community. I loved it.
September took me to Conway Hall in London for Crafting Fashion Futures with Fashion Declares! and Selvedge Magazine. Organic fashion pioneer Safia Minney MBE invited me to create a piece for the event using Indilisi’s fully traceable, fair-trade, unbleached organic cotton from Chetna Organics, India.
The result: Dress for Regenerative Futures - made entirely from plants, dyed with plants, nut buttons made by the last natural button factory in the UK, grounded in certified, transparent, organic materials. And what perfect timing: it’s during London Fashion Week and London Textile Month, a reminder that fashion can be beautiful, conscious, and regenerative all at once.
Next, the collection travelled to Slow Fashion Week with Brighton Collective, where I showed on the runway and exhibited a large natural-dyed art piece in the craft space.
FERAL COLOUR at Brighton Dome
And then - a curveball. Friends suggested I submit something to the Pembrokeshire Fashion Festival, but after the previous run of shows I was wiped out. So I entered just one piece into their Wreckless competition.
And it won. Most Sustainable Designer Award.
Flowers. Chocolates. A stage. My first time accepting anything like that.
A whirlwind, yes - but a good one. And a reminder of why I do this.
Ready-to-Ship for Christmas 🎄
A small selection of plant-dyed pieces ready to ship now - all can arrive before Christmas. Each one is naturally dyed in the studio and made from certified non-toxic materials (GOTS organic, OEKO-TEX® Standard 100, OCIA organic).
If ordered by 20th December, to arrive in time for Christmas.
Ande Bomber Jackets
• Dusky Pink + Yellow - Sizes 8 and 10
• Mid Blue + Teal - Size 12
•Mossy Green + Dusky Pink - Size 12
• Madder Red + Lilac - Size 14
(There is a matching Puffball Bag made from the same dye pot — see below.)
•Caramel Yellow + Powder Blue - Size 16
£650 including Express Delivery
Zero Waste Puffball Bag
Fancy a cute plant-dyed Santa Sack for Christmas? No, seriously, it’s just a cute bag and this one happens to be red.
This one is Ready-to-Ship.
Dyed with madder root, lined with luscious bamboo silk and finished with:
• a lichen green, indigo + weld dyed silk velvet drawstring
• an internal patch pocket
• cotton webbing strap
In true SARAH POLAND zero-waste practice, each bag is made using off-cuts from the jacket making process and includes selvedge details.
£125 including Express Delivery
Colour Match Available
There is an exact colour-match Madder Red + Lilac Ande Bomber (Size 14) - dyed in the same pot as the Puffball Bag.
Made-to-Order
Other jacket sizes can be made to order, and if ordered together, a Puffball Bag can be matched perfectly.
Not included above is the Powder Blue + Sloe Berry bomber, this can also be made-to-order.
Or why not go for the Triple Cord…or even Quadruple!!
The Ande Bomber, Robyn Wide Leg, Corduroy Day Bag and the Zero Waste Puffball Bag. Matching or contrasting colour mixes, all corduroy, monograms not included ;)
Rewilding Fashion for a healthier, stronger world - Helping to create a new paradigm with PLANT DYES + NATURAL TEXTILES
Artisanal, slow, purpose-driven and ethically made, every detail reflects a deeper responsibility, rooted in sustainable design.
