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Eviana Hartman, whose switch from fashion writer to fashion designer has resulted in this year’s most promising eco-chic line, Bodkin, prefers to be the observer and not the observed. But in the months since she won the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation’s inaugural Sustainable Design award for Bodkin, it’s hard for her not to get noticed. The former fashion features editor at Nylon and fashion writer at Vogue and TeenVogue was used to searching out talent but secretly she also hoped to be the one creating. “I always thought that I wanted to design something,” says Hartman, “but it never occurred to me that I ever would.”