Sense of Play and Place
In 2016 I launched INTERKNIT, a knitwear collection born out of a series of residencies at Textiellab in Tilburg, The Netherlands. The textures and abstract surface patterns I developed through knitwear technology referenced women’s lived experiences, from the challenges to the joys they face in …
Wear It Live – Sustainability in Tech – The Future of Fashion, Textiles, and Electronics with Wearable Tech
What role can wearable and close-to-body technologies play in ensuring that the fashion, textiles, and electronics industries are sustainable? Sustainability is important to early adopters and trendsetters of new technologies: it is the basis of success and acceptance of up-and-coming products. But sustainability does not …
Wear It Live – FashionTech at Berlin Fashion Week 2021
Fashion industry follows different rules than electronics, and with innovative technologies in material procurement and fashion design and smart materials, the world of FashionTech is growing at a rapid speed. What distinguishes the fashion industry from the electronics industry and how the new common space …
Fragments Garments # 2 — Re-Fream Project
Dear Reader, My Re-Fream’s project finds its roots in the Fragments Garments Research & Design Studio’s previous collection, for which I created a series of seamless modular jackets and coats made of small modules, called ‘Puzzled’ which has been produced in cooperation with FabLab WeMake …
Facing obstacles for a better fashion system
Checking the production chain, origin, and composition of the food basket is far more common now than years ago. End consumers are paying attention to their food, trying to minimize their impact on the climate crisis by making (more) responsible choices. But, what about what …
From conventional Denim to BIO-Denim
Today we use to buying products based on our own knowledge, generating in our mind an abstract idea regarding the process that has been used to achieve a particular effect or finish. But most of the time, according to what we heard, what people tell …