fashion trashed

for overproduction, over selling and over doing on all points. The industry has a huge carbon footprint, is dysfunctional and needs to evolve. Thats where sustainable fashion steps in to become the hero!

So designers and other humans, the global warming summit meet needs us to be proactive, educated participants in law as the old rule will try to exploit us all once again. Please take a few minutes to view Cap and Trade. thank you

money talks bs walks

That's an old cocktail cut from my Bahama Underground days of the 80s. Why i am thinking of it now is because i am so dismayed at how few do-ers there are! There are talkers, theorists and writers but when it comes to real economically sustainable re-routes like starting a co-op to buy a space to share for various eco entrees (like fashionRIP Project)...there is nary a show of hands (with cash).

Pooling funds for street up economics is foreign only because we were taught to throw our $ at stocks, making corporations more powerful. Corporations think in terms of bottom lines, HR and growth- an archaic, dehumanizing agenda. (actually a corporation is built of stakeholders as are co-ops -it's the goal that is the dif)

Now add that according to the book Social Intelligence by David Goleman - CEOs are often machiavalian or narcissistic folks. Need i say more?

Thanks to SCCC

havin' fun at the podium!

so prof with those glasses

audience as anon - i didn't have 70 release forms with me!

On screen - clothing from Monster shot at the Sustainable Ballard Festival 9/09

for opening their doors to sustainable fashion.
It's Thanksgiving and right now am listening to Rain by Jason Becker......i am thankful for the beauty in that song and for all the new and old friends, for family, mentors and everyone seeking to advance the policies and attitudes of the "world" and their communities.

recyCouture skirt

Menswear pants with remnants and a new bit of brown with rose fabric for pocket and tail detail.

Looks like fall. EZ to wear...possibly a piece for the Montana chapter of fashionRIP.

Water Ripped

old green bedspread attached to jean top -label from ?

We are going to put on the great big water show!

Steampunk Cabaret is calling all artists to the water.

What is on the surface, what goes on underneath- ol' toxic Duwammish, Puget Sound alien infiltration, paving over aquafers, irrigation salts, rain barrels, fountains and melting glaciers, showers, grey water, low flush toilets, to privatize or not to privatize -the world of water is exposed.

It is time to claim our bad habits and change them!

When i was a kid i read in Life magazine that people in the USSR knew Beatle songs. Thats when i knew for certain that art was more powerful, faster and better at uniting us than diplomats and politics....tunes, paintings, drawings, stories and spirit are us. Putting energy and attention towards that which matters changes outcomes and if its the eleventh hour.....its time!

Working it in the UK

Miss Butterfly Collection

"...also I have been sponsored - annual membership/access to training by Fashion Capital and selected for the next stage of NEW GEN and the Fashioning the Future competition...Lots of exciting stuff happening at the mo! Every thing crossed! I will keep you updated on the results.

Nicola

Beautiful Soul "

This is what support and collaboration delivers. Energy multiplied has more power. Its Simple! So why not here?

What is the difference?

(organizing the locals will help if we can get past some American mindset issues)

Life is power. We can live it in alignment with new science and spirit where that knowledge guides our present into an evolved future.

We in the USA are coming from a culture with many ideas that are no longer relevant. The hard part is that those old think systems hold most of the cards ($ & power).....that is the conundrum!

Thank you

to everyone who showed up for the sustainable fashion lecture.

This meant a lot to me, but there is more - it means a lot to the quality of our future.

Popularity gets attention, so i urge you to continue showing up, putting energy into the world you want and less into complaining!

i am ready to give more presentations. This was the Beta test and i learned a lot from the audience and have to use that info. The best way right now is to continue telling people about the paradigm pioneers; the sustainable designers, sourcers, thinkers and tailors that are seeking sanity.

Oh and of course, everyone in all industries, trades, systems etc. that are cleaning up from the inside out; you are the fabulous, you are the leaders, you are stars.

Free Lecture

Frye

dancers

Just had to comment on the installations of the Old Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art at the Frye today.

Old Weird America could be steampunk but no- it was dead soldiers and awkward still lifes in 3d.

I did like Dario Robietos work with mourning braids and they would complement an install of the "Species on the Verge."

But i guess we feel safer working from a troubled past then to change a troubling tomorrow. Why?

Anyway i wrote a plea for Species in the comment book and dropped a card at the front desk.

Women on the Verge..

men welcome! it gets boring without you!

it appears the whole world is coming together to form the next paradigm. Connected, non linear concepts that resonate with current research in physics, biology, sociology etc. have inspired the new theories and actions.

The fashionRIP Project is not alone, there are others. She is not an anomaly but part of a great awakening of spirit.

The old separatist Newtonian/Darwinian foundation is crumbling and though it is making a mess it is all part of the transition. It is an organic pattern at work in a theoretical world made material...cool!

Check out "Women on the Edge of Evolution " to hear some of the voices of change.

(wow i had the title wrong ...but that was why i paid attention. Some things are meant to be....and that is beautiful and at times annoying!)

Into the Lair at Bravern Square.

as Van Gogh said (loose)" i do a lot of self portraits
because the model is always available"

Yesterday I opened the glass doors of another challenge. I had a mission in mind and through that emerald lens i looked for signs of boorish design, garments made for seasonal discharge.

I was determined to sneer at expensive trash, the gee gaws of ego enhancement without style or grace, art or reason. Fashion whose emphasis on the bottom line put it in the straitjacket of corporate blanding.

I hurried past the major temptations; at round one, i was ok. However i have a thing for Chanel. The woman was an early hero. I read her bio when i was 20 and designed a pale blue chiffon and satin chemise with pearlized sequins in her honor and to snag an A in Fashion History!

So you see i have history here. I could not just walk on by!

Now to say that Karl Lagerfield does her justice is hard for me. But yesterday he scored 85% in my book of impossible odds. Up close and personal with good design, beautiful fabrics, and that savvy attention to detail, i melted.

I am justifying this with a quote from Metro UK which i also came across that morning (really) "Designer Karl Lagerfield said: It's Coco Ecolo, ecology can be chic. No? One can use natural fabrics and learn from nature."

Thank you Mr. Lagerfield. Now i must sort through this emotional territory of want and need, saving the best of of what we have now, to carry into the future, is a good thing. It's the weeding that is controversial.

However, thanks to mom and a big rockery on Beacon Hill, i developed some pretty good weeding skills!

Sustainable Fashion (getting) Organized

Everything starts somewhere
- start walking!

Kim of Kimmi Designs and i got together yesterday to talk about the benefits of sustainable designers uniting to grow awareness, do shows and other major projects, learn , inspire and generally support each other.

I saw and felt how this works when i attended and participated in collaborative events in London. The Eco Design Fair and the Fashioning the Future Summit 08 at the Sustainable Fashion Center proved to me that strangers with a cause in common can create tremendous change. They become worthy accomplices and are no longer strangers.

The energy of 2 is double 1 after all!

The competitive nature of design could be an issue. However we concluded that we all have an indy voice and vision and helping each others unique styles to bloom is a benefit that surpasses any possible glitches.