Farm-to-Runway Organic Couture at Hudson Valley Sustainable Fashion Week

Hudson Valley Sustainable Fashion Week (HVSFW) returns in 2025 with its signature celebration of eco-conscious design, creative innovation, and community engagement. The annual event, with its banner Organic Runway, has become the connective tissue for locally based designers, artisans, and advocates championing sustainability in fashion. From clothing swaps to mending workshops, pop-ups, HVSFW aims to promote a circular clothing economy and connect like-minded fashion lovers, demonstrating how style and environmental responsibility can coexist seamlessly.

Photo Courtesy of HVSFW.

On September 26, the Organic Runway fashion show will bring sustainable haute-couture back to the farm field, for a runway show amidst the fruit trees at Rose Hill Farm in Red Hook. Taking place at sunset with stunning views of the Catskills, this curated fashion show brings together locally based designers committed to ethical and sustainable production practices.

The event emphasizes the use of organic fabrics, recycled materials, and low-impact dyes, offering attendees a chance to see firsthand how forward-thinking design can reduce the industry’s environmental footprint. Models strut the grassy runway in garments that tell a story—from biodegradable evening gowns to upcycled streetwear—showing that sustainability can be as visually compelling as it is responsible.

Photo Courtesy of HVSFW.

This year’s participating brands are Caitlyn Kiara Couture, La Vie Apres L’Amour, Mixed Color, MLE, Olga Ella, Slow Process, So Vicki, Touch Threads, and students from the Marist Fashion Design Program.

The event, which runs from 4-9pm, includes live music from Ginger Winn at 5pm with the runway show at 6pm. The evening is meant to double as a platform for connection and storytelling, spotlighting designers’ journeys, sourcing practices, and the social impact behind each collection. Audiences will have the opportunity to meet the designers and mingle, drink, and dance from 6:30 to 9pm.

Rose Hill Farm.

The agricultural setting for HVSFW isn’t an afterthought or a gimmick but rather a very visceral and sensorial reminder that most of the materials for clothing are harvested from the earth, and our millions of tons of annual textile waste go back to the earth. As well as being a beautiful and bucolic background, the farm as runway underscores the importance and urgency of the sustainable fashion movement.

Hudson Valley Sustainable Fashion Week’s Organic Runway 2025 will take place on September 26, 4-9pm at Rose Hill Farm in Red Hook. Buy your ticket online.