‘Ethical’ silk apparel designer likes moths to take their time
20/02/2014
UK-based apparel designer Anne Wiggins has spoken of the lengths she has gone to to find the right type of fibres for the silk components of her collections. Ms Wiggins says she frowns upon the practice among some silk farmers of killing the moths that spin the fibres while they are still in their silk cocoons. She favours the rarer and much...