The most recent Project Runway challenge had designers racing to fetch piles of seatbelts and other materials from Saturn hybrid vehicles to use as material for innovative outfits. The clear winner, although the one not selected, was the Oleg Casini-inspired woven seatbelt coat fashioned by Koto. With its three-quarter sleeves and sash, it’s what Jackie would have worn if green was her scene.
As fetching for the green abode are these webbed seatbelt pillows handmade in the U.K. at the studio of Inghua Ting, a graduate of the Royal College of Art. Everyone at this innovative studio rides a bike to work, which is fitting when you are making sustainable decor from stuff exhumed from old cars.
In crisp shades of green, white and red (or more subtle chocolate), they measure 12" to 20" and start at $114 at Branch. The Ting studio loves reclaimed seatbelts otherwise headed for landfills, seeing the same symmetry that appealed to Koto and some of her runway colleagues lodging at the Parsons School of Design.