Sustainability, for designer @tommybogo, is about providing a lens to see the world differently. One idea he has been exploring through his work is healing. When his TOMBOGO collection Nature Is Healing debuted at New York Fashion Week last year, models emerged through the skeleton of a greenhouse in earth tone parachute pants, vegan leather tote bags and wood-grain knitwear sets. Flanked by houseplants, they picked up books and walked out, symbolizing the end of our pandemic isolation period and a return to the outside world.⁠ ⁠ Since 2019, TOMBOGO has used sustainable materials to transform multifunctional pieces into collections that are young, earthy and designed to the beat of world events. Nature Is Healing was a critical spin on what are now classic pandemic memes: scenes of Lime scooters dumped into lakes, dinosaurs in Times Square, polar bears on lawns in Ohio. Bogo’s collection invoked the surrealness of rushing back to normalcy while paying homage to the necessity of nature.⁠ ⁠ Fresh off a shoe release event in Paris and a Saucony collab that sold out in minutes, Bogo is in the middle of preparing for New York Fashion Week. When he met with Ferron Salniker at his DTLA studio, he was mostly tight-lipped about the launch, but he did say this upcoming collection is inspired by his formative years in Oakland. More at link in bio.⁠ ⁠ 📸: @darrenvargas.jpeg