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Let me fume about Zero Waste.
Timo Rissanen showed me an interesting post that invited the readers to let the writer “Fume About Zero Waste” – see here. It’s always a slightly painful experience to see your own work be shredded in...
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New Blood: Graduating Class of 2011
This is a selection of students graduating from the College of Creative Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand (where I am a lecturer). The work ranges from straight up commercial fashion...
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RISK Dress
This dress was designed as part of The Cutting Circle project and I’m refining it for an exhibition in Sydney early next year at Object. It is a similar approach to WAR / PEACE but with the letters...
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Void 2012. A zero waste collection for Evergreen
While fashion appears to change constantly, this change is primarily superficial. Forms, lines and details are repeated ad nauseam, only occasionally revealing anything new. As a result consumers are...
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Void 2012 Patterns
These are the patterns that make all the garments shown in the Void video below. Some make a single garment, some make 2.
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My first article for EcoSalon!
I’ve been asked to write a column for the wonderful folks at EcoSalon every 2 weeks. Next article will be available this Friday. It will going into a bit more detail regarding a number of Zero Waste...
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Commune@RMIT Brunswick
In July I’ll be be speaking all about Zero Waste Fashion at Commune@RMIT Brunswick! Explore your creativity and celebrate the global world of fashion and textiles at RMIT University’s annual...
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My version of sketching.
When I design I don’t sketch the finished design – like what you can see on the right side of the page spread, I sketch the pattern roughly first (image on ruled paper), then I cut and sew the garment...
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New Old Shoes
I had my old desert boots re-soled last week. They are made by McKinlays of Dunedin in the South Island, New Zealand. I’ve owned them since about 2009 and wore them almost daily since I got them. I got...
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Fab8NZ!!
As you may know, we (Massey University, where I work) are starting Australasia’s first fab lab in association with MIT in the states. We are also hosting the annual fab lab meeting (for a week) and a...
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MAKE|USE for Local Wisdom
MAKEUSE is a research project exploring user modifiable zero waste fashion garments. Developed as part of Local Wisdom, this project provides stages of intervention accessible to both Makers and...
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Make it Zero Waste: Kimono Twist Dress
Just for fun the other day I played around with a one piece pattern idea i saw here to see if i could make a successful zero waste version that was in keeping with the general concept of the original....
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MakeUse V1 and Exhibition
Make Use is User Modifiable Zero Waste Fashion. Each garment is simple to make, and can be modified in multiple ways to suit changing fashion and user needs. It was developed as part of the Local...
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Zero Waste Kimono pattern for download
In a beautiful show of internet-ty feel-good share-sies (aka Open Source), Kathleen Fasanella (from Fashion Incubator) very kindly took the illustrator file for my pattern (which was itself developed...
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SpaceBetween and Fashion Revolution Day!
I’ve been involved in SpaceBetween since its inception in 2012 when a local corporate uniform manufacturer/designer came to us with a problem – thousands of tonnes of unwanted and unusable corporate...
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MakeUse Exhibition and workshops coming to Objectspace in Auckland soon!
MakeUse is a project that’s been percolating for a few years now and in just a few weeks time will be on show at Auckland gallery Objectspace. MakeUse is Opensourse, User-Modifiable, Zero waste...
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Make/Use: User Modifiable Zero Waste Fashion
Make/Use explores what might occur if we consider not only the aesthetic of the garments we wear, but also the way we use them and the waste we create when we make them. This ongoing...
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NYC Book talk: Zero Waste Fashion Design
I will be in New York next week and Parsons School of Design will host a talk by Timo Rissanen and me on our new book, Zero Waste Fashion Design, published by Bloomsbury in January 2016. Location: The...
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Zero Waste Fashion Design Book Tour and Workshop series
On Saturday the 6th of February (Waitangi Day in New Zealand) I’m going to begin a bit of a whistle-stop tour of US, UK and Sweden that will take me up to the 1st of March. USA: If you are in San...
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