fashionRIP

fashionRIP is a multidiscipline, transmedia installation of chapters, an exploration of perceptions and beliefs. It’s a platform that explores ecosystems health, generative economics, social justice, cultural and creative diversity. Starting with recycouture garments, the story became the Project. It is now an evolving experiment, designed to explore meaningful relationship based constructs that put human potential and whole systems health over the abstract ideas of faux "the real world."

Sunday, March 28, 2010

how to dress for success

against the elusive, systemic, archaic infrastructure of Jabberwocky (see prior post)

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Alice in Armor

Alice in Wonderland retold by the Tim Burton team might be the myth of the feminine odyssey i was waiting for. Depp's beautiful Mad Hatter plays the heroic second that stands by Alice as she chooses to believe in the better possibility and accepts her mission to free Wonderland from its domination of fear by the Red Queen (ironically of Hearts). Notice Depp's eyes when Alice is finally the right size, i have seen that look before but it was denied. Too sad! But bravo JD for having the courage to reveal a broad spectrum of the male psyche.

Maybe being off synch is what challenged their growth. Maybe E-harmony type relationships are brain numbing, comfortable affairs that squash the full potential of everyone. Maybe there is a balance that will be achieved in Alice part 2. Maybe its just a fairy tale and i am thinking too much.

The Jabberwocky could be the manifestation of old fear/power/greed activated cultures and if so, the sooner it is beheaded the better. Now its time to raise a critical mass into the co-creative mindset that will nurture the evolution.

we can all be heroes.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Tee Shirts Wanted

Well i decided to try to do a reFashion line.

Tons of tees are made, shipped, sold, donated or recycled and sometimes shipped back from whence they came. All transport and production processes add to carbon atmospheric od, dyes are often chemically odious and disrupting some of this for secondary local use makes good sense.

If you have any tee shirts that are ready to go away, please send them my way.
debbarnesusa@hotmail.com

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Fashion Week Food Xtra

Seattle is making me sick! Well its subtle but i felt better in London even though i was stressed out. How could this be?

I had the book Death by Supermarket in the house for a class project research on obesity. I read it after the London trip.

On PBS 5-6 are doctors pitching corrective, yet contradictory diets. What is that about? Wouldn't good nutrition stave off the need for corrections? Are the cumulative effects of factory foods and pharma company symptom relievers colliding and forming unhealthy storms in our bodies?

Adding it up and stirring in some common sense; I think we are being poisoned by bad food and chemical additives mixed up with tunnel visioned science and economic interests. What a stupid agenda! I am frightened by the disregard and mad at the disrespect, corporations and their government sidekicks have for life -yours, mine, other species -all of it! It is not only disgusting but eventually suicidal.....

Fluoride (toxic multi mini doses add up) in Seattle water - even though we now know it only provides a minimal offset in tooth decay is another possible suspect.

More details at fashion ethos.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Rapa Nui

Tube Stop

one way to Somerset House -the hub of London FashionWeek and

the other way to lessons fout of the past. But because they are written in relics

we don't get it or something!!!

Overexploitation of resources or Euro trade and disease....what ever devastated the population of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is debated but we do know it crashed. Meeting up with this statue by chance was not a coincidence. As to the why and what i do not know yet but will when i need to. It is definitiely a script -i just don't know how to tell the story without being boring obvious.

Just noticed the cartoon sign....hmmm

Saturday, March 6, 2010

tees reDux

early spring in Seattle is lovely despite its climatic consequences

fashion graffiti.....
i am not big on Tees with the graphic smack on center front ...but love how this skirt worked up.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Choosing Death

Steve McQueen suicide....London
please see the tribute on his website..... what was he trying to say and why was this the way he chose to say it?

we are a messed up culture.........

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.

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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.