fashionRIP: November 2009

Thursday, November 26, 2009

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.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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!

Why it Matters

What's the matter with more and more fashion choices?

It sounds good; we love to be able to pick the perfect outfit. You wear it once or twice and then ....what was the real cost here?

Your time to shop and the money spent, not so much ....go a little deeper and consider the fiber source, the dyes and chemicals used, the health toll on the workers, the energy to run the machines, the transporting carbons...and now it just takes up closet space. But so what? It's been going on for-almost-ever and you didn't make the rules.

In fact we are told this is what a "healthy" economy looks like.

You will recycle it after all, give it to charity or your sister. This is more transportation and more release of those greenhouse gases. We are using a lot of our personal energy and the resources of this planet to make, use and dump "trash" Some rags, remnants and tawdry bits will molder for eons in landfills, as nature's microbial actions are hampered by our normalized, everyday toxic lifestyles.

This goes beyond dumps as the breakdown cycle that nourishes the life of this planet has been sorely challenged by GMO crops, fertilizers, pesticides, antimicrobials..RIGHT!!. All the "living better through chemistry" propaganda after WWI and II- AKA how to sell your "garbage," is our legacy. Well no more, not on my (our) watch, we are seeing things quite differently.

As we now carry 298 toxins in our bods that weren't there in the 1930s the toxic residues of normal are haunting us more and more. Ironic, no? Advanced is merely a word.

Go to the So Whats the Point blog in February for the numbers.

fashionRIP posts are copr at time of posting thank you

Extinctions ...So What?

Life evolves, some species survive some don't. We like to allude to Darwin's "natural selection" or Herbert Spencer's "survival of the fittest" because we are so good at reproducing and taking over this planet and justifying that side of our natures. The fact that we are wiping out the food chain by destroying habitat, fouling air and water and generally behaving like arrogant, tinkering idiots, is called business as usual. .....Well I and others are no longer buying that "sell."

We are wising up to the idea that we too, are dependent on these resources. We too, are physically an organic species and we really don't know what little extinction will be the start of the chain reaction that collapses the structure that we too, are dependent on.

Is this the price we are willing to pay for a pair of plastic shoes?

I say no, that despite the focus on the physical, we are more. We are heart and soul, mind, body, spirit. We are born of stars and we can and will leap over this world view based in old, untrue beliefs led by a science of isolation and religions of patriarchal, hierarchical constructs (your basic dominating Dad- with self reflective rights to rule). It is time to come together and heal. To transition into our fuller expectations and open the new possibilities. We are born with genius...let us help each other get to where we all can shine.