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Five years after designing for Barneys’ private label and bonding over a mutual distaste for New York’s trend-wheeling, Tina Lutz and Marcia Patmos launched Lutz & Patmos, their line of active, luxe knitwear, in 2000. Expanding into ready-to-wear separates with an ecoconscious and humanitarian slant, they use environmentally friendly threads and dedicate one or more styles per season to charity. They launched their diffusion line of knitwear, Leroy & Perry, in 2008 for Barneys’ Green initiative. Guest designers have included Christy Turlington, Carine Roitfeld, Jonathan Adler, and Richard Meier. Their Teflon-coated cashmere was voted by Time magazine to be one of 2002’s coolest inventions.
“Lutz & Patmos, of course, made its name with cashmere—a winter thing, it used to go without saying. But, eco-conscious and aware of the quickly changing climate, they are of the opinion that all designers, of knitwear or otherwise, will have to start thinking beyond seasons.”—Laird Borrelli-Persson Style.com
“[I]t can take up to 20 days to produce the exquisite crocheted knitwear the duo has outsourced to women's collectives in Bolivia, which allows the women to maintain their craft techniques while being able to stay at home to care for their children. ‘It's the fashion equivalent of planting a tree to make up for your carbon footprint,' Tina Lutz says.”—Mark Holgate Vogue
Tina Lutz and Marcia Patmos