Posts Tagged: slow fashion

Featured Item – Michelle Lowe-Holder

A stunning image from Michelle Lowe-Holders Spring Summer 2014 collection entitled “Fusion”. Michelle is one of the amazingly talented designers I featured in my book ReFashioned for working with recycled ribbons.

Zurita

Zurita is a slow, considered fashion project by Gabriela Farias Zurita that explores, honors and recontextualizes the tradition of Andean hand weaving

Featured Image – Inaisce

Stunning imagery from New York brand Inaisce who featured androgynous, seasonless avant garde, quality clothing.

Hetty Rose

Henrietta Rose Samuels, custom makes bespoke women’s shoes from recycled and reworked vintage materials, under the name Hetty Rose.

Featured Item – Hetty Rose

Hetty Rose custom makes bespoke women’s shoes from recycled and reworked materials, including vintage kimono fabrics.

Featured Item – Alabama Chanin

Alabama Chanin honors Martin Luther King Jr with this lovely hand embroidered corset tank with the quote “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

Featured Item – Lulea

Luxury leather bag maker Lulea, design and produce in Africa, helping to alleviate poverty, and training skilled workers in the developing world.

Featured Video – Patagonia Worn Wear

Patagonias Worn Wear Video, the stories of the clothes we wear.

Ecouterre 2014 Eco Fashion Predictions

36 Eco Fashion predictions for 2014.

Yves Andrieux and Vincent Jalbert

With a love and passion for recycled antique and military fabrics, Yves Andrieux and Vincent Jalbert refashion flea market finds into sophisticated designs, which wouldn’t look out of place on a Victorian version of Out of Africa.

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Advent Calendar

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Advent Calendar Day 14

We Are Islanders

Irish label We Are Islanders debut collection, entitled Tidal, aims to challenge the concept of heritage, by merging old and new and fusing art and fashion. Bringing a contemporary twist on traditional Irish fabrics through quilting, cording, binding and hand printing, the brand mix Beetle finished Wexford Linen and Tipperary Wool with bamboo, silk and salmon leather.