I’m kind of sick of fast fashion and would like to enhance visibility and power around contemporary, modern design produced in a heartfelt way, like artists or industrial designers were doing in the seventies … I work in fashion, and it’s so fast that we should stop more and think about it.
Chiara Orlandini, shoe designer.
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I remember the 60’s when someone came out with the idea of “paper dresses” … really. It was so absurd
I’ve seen one or two of the dresses for sale at vintage shows – still packaged.
That has been the appeal of the Craft to Wear Movement, isn’t it. Like the slow food movement, the power of the conscious hand and mind in what we wear, what we eat , in relationship…
it’s true sustenance.