Whether eroded or renewed, material or immaterial, reversed or inversed, Marseille-based visual artist Flore Saunois provokes a shift of gaze and a change of perspective in terms of time and matter.
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TextileSeekers curates craft experiences that focus on Indigenous textile practices while highlighting the value of provenance.
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Mélissa Wago-Lala and Chantal Dubreuil Beaur meet in their family home in Beaugency to create together. From gathering plants to dyeing fabrics, theirs is a story of the transmission of know-how and life skills.
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With her international non-profit organization Local Futures, Helena Norberg-Hodge is dedicated to renewing ecological and social wellbeing by strengthening communities and local economies worldwide.
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Solidago tells the tale of Edith, a young woman, who was sent to an all-female rural community in late 1960s Britain to secretly give birth to her premarital child. We talk with the film’s costume designer, Sophie Daniel, about how she consciously created the film’s wardrobe and the future for sustainably-minded costume productions.
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“With the seeds of this knowledge, the designers of tomorrow have the potential to create the paradigm shift we need for a creative, meaningful fashion culture on a thriving planet.” – Deborah Barker, Fibreshed
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Leather is a material that is both ancient and beloved but in today’s world, it is also stricken with controversy and linked to environmental hazards and animal welfare violations. We look at what a responsible leather production entails.
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Since the beginnings of human existence, there has been a seemingly unbreakable bond, one of co-dependency, reverence and respect between humans and plants. In the following story, Idun, Narumi and Tash invite us into their personal journeys of becoming herbalists, feminists, wildcrafters, foragers and witches, and share with us how they have learned to speak the sacred language of life.
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In conversation with Alessia Pegorin and Antonia Insunza of Berlin-based light design studio As a Ceremony, writer Michelle Torres reflects upon the various factors posing a challenge to healthy and holistic ways of design and production in the light industry, such as lighting pollution and the looming e-waste crisis.
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Terra is a research organisation founded by visual artist Corinne Aivazian, with roots in Mexico, Armenia and France, exploring ancestral clay practice to connect histories and peoples. Here she shares lessons from local Maestras and artisans that come from the earth, learned by the hands.
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Emily Bode spoke with us about her lifelong love of antiques, the stories textiles can tell us, and how drawing on the emotive quality of clothing can enable a meaningful relationship with fashion.
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To grasp a city’s diversity and organic richness with all senses is an expertise that Maurice Maggi has cultivated for decades. Walking through urban landscapes, he turns his attention to places like the pavement, fallow land, and scrub along the way only to find the best and overlooked ingredients for his poetic interventions.
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A conversation with City Quitters author Karen Rosenkranz about what she learned interviewing creatives who are living and thriving outside of the city.
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Whether we like it or not, fashion creates stereotypes in our minds, a certain lifestyle we want to participate in. But fashion also has the power to break those patterns. People BERLIN plays with this mechanism and reverses it in many ways: While the fourth collection of the fashion brand based in the German capital is about to be launched, hardly anyone knows the faces behind the label.
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Anne Schwalbe and Ayumi Paul are two Berlin-based multidisciplinary artists whose work using hand-sewn textiles reflect their respective interest in the transformation of fabrics, of experiences. With distinct points of view, both women use their unique garments as methods of exploring seemingly duelling ideas: creation and mending, tangibility and ephemerality, timelessness and ageing.
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Clare opens our eyes to a rebirth of global grassroots activism in her uplifting read Rise & Resist: How to Change the World.
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IKKIVI is a unique and beautifully curated online destination for sustainable fashion design from India, and, in the words of its founder and curator Nivi Murthy, “a portal to take a deeper breathe, to be mindful of the little things, to engage in meaningful conversations, and to shop slowly”.
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The quadrennial fashion event “State of Fashion” is currently on show in Arnhem, The Netherlands, and is Searching for the New Luxury.
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Sigrid McCarthy founded Intent Journal in Melbourne, Australia, in 2015. Her ground-breaking ethical fashion online publication clearly succeeds in bringing substance to style and is a real inspiration.
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