Brooklyn-based Bahar Shahpar is a self-taught designer with a diverse creative background in multimedia event production, fashion, and publishing. Previously, she owned an art gallery and designed custom accessories in London and New York. In 2005, after extensive research on agricultural systems and the textile and apparel industry, she debuted her womenswear line, agricult, inspired by the American frontier and created using only sustainable materials.
For Spring/Summer 2007, Bahar launched her eponymous label, focusing on a more modern, less structured form while still drawing from a turn-of-the-century aesthetic. She was featured as part of domino magazine’s 2007 Green List and has been profiled in Lucky, NYLON, ELLE, and WWD, as well as on fiftyRX3.com and inhabitat.com.
