Artigianale, diffusa, connessa e open: è la moda del 2025. La facciamo adesso?

Articolo originariamente pubblicato su CheFuturo Il mondo della moda così come è strutturato oggi è costantemente proiettato nel futuro. Anzi, meglio parlare di futuri. C’è il futuro sempre presente, contenuto nelle sfilate, nelle fiere e negli esoterici quaderni di stile venduti a caro prezzo alle case di moda. Tutto questo diventerà presente fra qualche mese, quasi come una profezia che si autoavvera e ci permette di toccare con mano quello che avevamo solo potuto desiderare. E c’è un futuro lontano, quasi da fantascienza, che racconta gli scenari difficili in cui il costo della manifattura e delle materie prime raggiunge livelli mai visti prima. Tutto a causa della scarsità d’acqua e di energia, a cui si affianca l’aumento del costo del lavoro nei paesi-fabbrica. Di questi cambiamenti epocali già sentiamo i primi effetti oggi. Guardiamo per esempio al prezzo del cotone, raddoppiato dalla fine del 2010. Il modello di business della fast fashion, che ha raggiunto fatturati da record, si basa

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Felt Fold Slippers Workshop at Salone del Mobile

At the forthcoming Salone del Mobile, Domus will host and exhibition looking at what is to come in the future of design, involving events and live performances in Palazzo Clerici, right in the heart of Milan. Openwear will be part of the event with a workshop focused on lasercutting felt for fashion accessories using Fold Slippers pattern. Read the details and subscribe (workshop will be in italian). The exhibition is a showcase of the latest and most interesting projects on fabbing and digital manufacturing: from the visionary Solar Sinter by Markus Kayser, to the furniture line Endless by Dirk Vander Kooij. One of the rooms is dedicated to “the best of Arduino” with a selection of the best project based on the made-in-italy microcontroller. For the whole week, FabLab Torino together with Vectorealism and Kent’s Strapper are going to produce the objects of Autoprogettazione 2.0 contest. Everyday there will be a free workshop: check them out!

Activating knowledge and empowering clothing communities with open source fashion

Oscar Ruiz Schmidt is originally from Costa Rica and studying in a master of Fashion Design at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee in Berlin. Together with his partner Ingrid Cordero, created Obra Gris, a clothing label (and a blog) with a metaphoric Spanish name referring to something in construction or in progress. He wrote to Openwear to exchange some views on the topic of Open Source in Fashion to be inserted in his 35-pages essay: “Having recently studied in Europe with all it’s facilities, and returning to my country, where materials are scarce, there is no fashion school and local design initiatives are uprising without enough educational support, I’m trying to find a solution to activate all this knowledge and empower communities to develop clothing competence since my recent research in the field has broadened my spectrum. The following questions arise.“ I answered as co-founder of Openwear but also as one of the creators of Serpica Naro back in 2005. Oscar Ruiz

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Openwear at World Wide Rome – Makers Edition

Next friday I’m going to present Openwear project to the audience participating at the first conference dedicated to the Makers scene in Italy with Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine, Massimo Banzi of Arduino, Dale Dougherty of Make Magazine and many more. All the content on the website is in italian, also the interview they did to me. See you in Rome! ——– Venerdì prossimo presenterò Openwear agli spettatori che partecipaeranno alla prima conferenza dedicata alla scena dei Makers in Italia. L’evento è stato organizzato da Riccardo Luna e sul palco ci saranno anche Chris Anderson di Wired Magazine, Massimo Banzi di Arduino e Dale Dougherty di Make Magazine e molti altri. Qui trovate l’intervista che mi hanno fatto e tutto il resto dei contenuti. Ci vediamo a Roma!

Sustainability and ThinkLifecycle

Have you ever given thought to where what you wear comes from? The fibre, the manufacture and the design process are all part of the lifecycle of a garment. Alice Payne, PhD student from Qeensland University of Technology, is investigating mass market fashion and has come up with a concept called ThinkLifecycle, a system to promote sustainability in the fashion process which won “Fashioning the Future Awards 2011″ for the Unique Enterprise category. The notion of ‘lifecycle’ is drawn from the natural world, in which, as McDonough and Braungart (2002) describe, all waste becomes food for the next lifecycle. This provides a model for developing materials and processes which mimic this natural order. Listen to RadioNational interview where she explain her project.