Before the Gown, the Field: American Cotton Earns Its Place in Fashion's Supply Line

Every white shirt and every cotton column dress begins somewhere far from a step-and-repeat, and for a great deal of it that somewhere is American farmland. The United States ranks with the world's largest cotton growers, and the people tending those acres are being credited as the global standard for farming that treats the soil as something to be kept rather than spent. For a title that catalogs who wore what and when, it is a pleasant reminder that provenance runs deeper than the label stitched inside a neckline.

With reporting from WWD.