Maria McManus

Maria McManus’s whole ethos revolves around sustainability and the environment, but it was also the unexpected inspiration behind her very colorful and joyful resort collection. “A while back there was a conversation about the desert bloom…

Maria McManus showed her fall collection at her home in Tribeca. On the rack yellow knits (butter and lemon) immediately caught the eye. McManus had recently watched the Sinéad O’Connor documentary and was struck by how much she had…

Maria McManus looked to the movies this season. Specifically Il Deserto Rosso, the 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni movie that was his first in color. “It is stunningly beautiful,” McManus recalls, but it also addresses themes that the designer…

“How can you live a more sustainable life without getting stressed about it?” is the question at the heart of Maria McManus’s design philosophy. It’s also what drives her to experiment and search for innovative materials. “This is the first…

Maria McManus cares. She cares about making beautiful clothes out of sustainable materials and utilizing sustainable processes. She cares about keeping a grounded point of view about the work she is doing in the world that we are currently…

Sustainably minded clothing—which Maria McManus produces so seamlessly that you might think sourcing buttons from a Brazilian nut that cannot be harvested must be easy—only really works if the clothing itself is compelling. The stories of…

Maria McManus named two very different muses for pre-fall: 18-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg and mid-century furniture designer Charlotte Perriand. The former for her dauntless activism, the latter for her stripped-back and…

When a blouse or sweater has shell buttonsa have you ever wondered what kind of shells they are? Or where the shells were sourced? What about the impact of removing the shells from their natural habitat, then carving them into little…