Do you have old clothes that they are nice, but you don't use anymore? I bet you have! 

If you don't feel like just giving them away or throwing them (I hope you don't do that),  rescue them from meaningless waste and suffocation by taking them out of the closet and bringing them to the Fashion Reloaded session on 4th of July 2009.

I guess that you are wondering what Fashion Reloaded is.

It's all about swapping your old, nice clothes with the old, nice clothes of other people, who also have an overloaded closet. Put in a dress, take out a skirt. Put in the old, take out a new. It's simple like that.

But Fashion Reloaded is also about restyling. You love this skirt, because it fits so nicely on you, but its style is boring. What a sustainably thinking person would do? Restyle of course!!! And if you don't know how to do it, there will be professional fashion designers there for you to help you in refreshing the style of the clothes you no longer use and fashion workshops, for example screen printing, that will teach you how to make and play with clothes.

Swap and Restyle my friends. 

And in an evening your garderobe gets a new colour and sense.  A new dimension, a new shape.

Let the Fashion Reloaded breeze to bring oxygen and a cool aura in your style.

And if you are not convinced yet to join us in this creative, stylish and amusing swapping and restyling party...yes it's a party with music and joy...let us share some words with you about Fashion Reloaded philosophy.

By swapping and restyling you reduce waste and you give a second chance to clothes to get a life. This simply means that there is less need for purchasing new clothes and consequently you contribute in the ecological balance, since clothing industry is a great polluter. I hope you know that already. In parallele, you save money! So, you can deal better with the economical crisis and its consequences. But also, beyond the environmental and economical aspect, by restyling you get an extra, highly important for your personal dimension tip. The creation, which amuses your soul and smoothes your spirit. Being sustainable, by having a low cost and creative,stylish life isn't convincing enough?

 I guess it is.

 So, this Saturday, 4th of July, from 12 to 19 pm, in Karl-Marx Strasse 97-99 Berlin Neukolln, Fashion Reloaded will be on, as part of the "TheKey.To " international trade fair for sustainable fashion (see post below).

 See you and your clothes there!

The second part of Berlin Fashion Week 2009 is on from 1st to 5th of July 2009.

Pamoyo will be there too, part of the international trade fair for green fashion and sustainable lifestyle, TheKey.To , which will last four days, form 1st to 4th of July 2009.
The event is open for the public on 4th of July 2009.

So, come over, in  Kaiserliches postamt Karl-Marx strasse 97-99 Neukoln, Berlin .

Pamoyo will wait for you with its brand new designs to show you that being sustainable is the key to the authentic beauty and to our future.

“She is putting on her soft lingerie and she is slipping slowly in front of the mirror.The silky black hair are tamed under the rules of the floral hair comp , her lips are gettin’ red...so red...
The wind breaks in the room and her Forties Garden dress is waving in harmony. It is waiting for her to dive into it and give a second life to its existence...
Take it, put it on... a last glance in the mirror...”I’ m gorgeous!!!”she says...Yes, you are!...Actually, you are Sustainably Gorgeous...3, 2, 1 and... “The Show is yours, honey!”...Go and get them!”

 
Yes, yes...I am in poetic mood or better in a “scenario” mood. It’s Enamore effect. All these beautiful fashion artworks, inspired by the top-feminine pin-up personas and meant to support the burlesque type of woman, who knows how to make fun of her self without losing not even a point out of her mystery and charm, just gave wings to my imagination.

And I have one more special reason to share my fantasy with you...Enamore fashion is green, made by sustainable, organic and vintage garments under eco-friendly practices. Yes, yes, my friends, eco-clothing can be absolutely feminine.

And being Sustainably Gorgeous is must!

What is the special feature of this Friday 12th of June?

Well, it's my birthday...but I prefer to forget about it...

Let's think of something else...something with no age...something that is always young and fresh...something that makes us laugh and enjoy...and learn...and feel!

So, let's think of Street Theatre! What brings you in mind?

Crazy and awkard outfit?... Provocative actors interacting with the audience?... Joggling and tricks?... Circle of people around the performer?...Or maybe a hat going around the circle waiting for your coins?...

 Well, if you ask me, Street Theatre means much more than these.

Street Theatre means art for everybody, free, immediate, direct and honest.

Street Theatre means pure entertainment that can also have the role of an alternative educator.

Street Theatre is progressive, but also anachronic offering you time-trips between "before", "now" and "after" .

Street Theatre is fairy, but so realistic, reflecting people's faces and minds.

   It is transparent .

                  It is colourful.

                              It is magic.

                                          It is real.

    Street theatre is me, you, us and them.

   Street theatre is an original form of art, not meant to be consumed, but to be admired...to be loved.

 

So, coming back on the date I mentioned before, the 12th of june 2009, it is the first day of the 5th International Street Theatre Festival.

This festival, organized by the non-profit organisation "Berlin lacht ", which is active in cultural projects related to Street Art, will be on for 3 days, from 12th till 14th of June 2009. Many street artists come from different countries will be in Mariannenplatz, Kreuzberg, waiting for you to entertain you and panegyrically prove that Street Theatre is not the poor artist and his hat.

They will show you that Street Theatre is culture, in one of its most  soul-lifting "editions".

So...

Be there... to have a soul-lift!

 

What are your plans for this Sunday, 7th of June?

If you have nothing special to do and you just feel like sensing Berlin, you can join us in SideSeeing , a design market in Maubachufer organised by the Fashion Network Neükolln right next to the riverside. Colours, designs, textures, forms and lots of music made in Neükolln will be there to fancinate you and give to your Sunday the essence of the "Perfect Day "...oh, it's such a perfect day I wanna spend it with you...and you...and you...and you!!!

So, come over!

Pamoyo will be there too with its fashion designs, pleased to meet you and  make you smile!

Who said that embroidery is just for your grandma???
And who said that it is a boring activity, accompanied by a saltess, juiceless lifestyle?

Jacinta Lodge is here with her awesome 3D tattoo-liked stumbworks to prove that embroidery is actually cool!!!

In the pictures you can enjoy the "Flaming Heart" and the "Rosy Mummy". In the link http://www.flickr.com/groups/stitchalicious you can find even more stitchalicious artworks of Jacinta...for your eyes..and not only!...

IRENE ALONSO FERNANDEZ _ _ Creative Activist _ _ Spain

Irene is a creative activist, willing to help non-privileged people to have a better quality of life. Been a Psychology student, her focus is their mind and soul, so the way she chooses to act is by providing amusement and nice moments to these people.
The one part of her actions is associated to music. Irene is a musician and part of an activist orchestra, named OCAS (Orquestra de Càmara de Siero ). The other part of her actions is her membership in the board of a  youth association, named LLANERA, which is meant to exist for creative activities addressed to youngsters of the region of Asturias.

 

She started talking to me about the orchestra project, organised and held by OCAS, which is called VINCULOS that means CONNECTIONS. This name represents the aim of the project, which is to develop connections between Spain and Latin America through music!

It sounds good, don’t you think? Music always sounds good!

Three “Vinculos” have been realised till now. The first one was held in  2005 in Bolivia and Rio de Janeiro, the second one in 2007 in Bolivia again and the last one in Honduras and Guatemala. What they did in these projects is just amazing! Before they set up for their trip, they collected classical musical instruments and music books from people who didn’t use them anymore. They also bought some with their own money, whereas some others were bought with the donations by several organisations. These musical instruments and music books were meant to be donated to Latin Americans, who are musicians already and others who want to become musicians, but they have no money to buy music staff. OCAS was just so kind to give to these people the opportunity to make music!
Apart from the donated materials, one  member of the support crew was repairer of musical instruments, whose mission was to repair broken instruments and to teach the people there how to repair them themselves.
However, OCAS’ actions were not limited only in the donations and repairs. Concerts, meant to be performed in small villages and suburbs, was one of the main missions. In these concerts, the activist musicians of OCAS-Irene was one of them- were performing with local orchestras, producing a mixed sound of classic and traditional music, full of energy and feelings.
OCAS had also the sensitivity to provide a kind of education on music to children and others who were interested through workshops and didactic concerts. For the workshops, they were using both classical and traditional instruments, but also instant improvised instruments, like for example kitchenware!
And here the music comes!!!

Irene says that “The people in these areas are forgotten by their government. We wanted to help these children and these people there to feel that they are interesting and valuable, that somebody cares about them, that they have our support. People like it and they get happy. It is just amazing to talk to children and hearing them say that they are happy!”.
Irene also spoke about the favourite song of the children in Bolivia, which was not one of the funny repertoire (as the most would expect from children), but a song written by a Cuban composer, Flores Chaviano, which describes the catastrophe of a mine in Asturias on 1995 that costed the life of many workers. In Bolivia, there are mines too and this is the link in common feelings and experiences between Bolivians and Asturians.
She closes the story by saying: “I feel that I am not the one who gives, but the one who takes. I learn more than I teach. When you go there you see that these people even if they own almost nothing, they still have the energy to make things and they  try to be happy with anything  they have. In the contrary, here in Europe, we have almost everything, but we are not neither  happy nor we take advantage of the rights and the opportunities we have to  do what we can  do.”
My dear readers, I hope that you can see a point here!

To have a visual exprerience of Vinculos, check the video about Vínculos 2008, Concierto didáctico en San Pedro Sula, Hondur , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfbf01Ig-18

And now, let’s jump to the other actions of Irene, those related to the youth association LLANERA.In this association, Irene and her friends, apart from organizing workshops of poetry, sports, climbing, etc. for youngsters, are also very interested in immigrants. In the frames of a youth European program, an exchange of young people coming from Colombia, Guatemala, Italy and Spain took place, named Intercambio Multilateral . The main topic of the exchange was Immigration. Irene says that immigration is a big problem for Spain, since there are many immigrants who are not treated well and they don’t have good conditions of life. And clearly annoyed she complements, “In the past, Spanish were also immigrants themselves in other countries, like Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Germany, etc. I really don’t understand how it’s possible that now they forget this period and they neglect to show compassion to the immigrants that come in Spain looking for better conditions of life!"

In this exchange, an open platform was created in order the knowledge on different realities of the different countries to be exchanged. Speaking about the experiences of Colombians in relation to the conditions of living in their country, Irene says, “Their reality is really really hard. Things that you can’t find in books. For me it was incredible to see the difference between in just knowing, via several sources, about the difficult conditions of life there and in speaking face-to-face with the people who really experience it. Here in Europe, we live under really good conditions. Economical crisis is nothing compared to the harsh living  conditions in Latin America. And we, the Europeans, contribute in their problems with our industry, our way of living, our closed eyes”.

"Eyes wide shut and a “hapiness pill” to keep us sleepy!", I would complement...

Irene is also planning to create with some friends a “garbage orchestra”in Colombia, hoping that she can help the people there to feel nice. “They need to know that they are humans, that they have rights and that they should be proud to exist” , she says and she is crossing her fingers for a good luck in this project.
Good luck, Irene!

Laura Lara // Bitxo _ _ StreeT ArtisT _ _ Spain

“My art is for the people, not for myself. That’s why I am into Street Art” said Laura looking at me with her big, shiny eyes. 

Laura’s art-projects are inspired by her beliefs about urban life and how people should live in this context.

  One part of her ideas flows from her aspiration to see happy people in the streets. For that reason, she is drawing funny monsters on the walls. “They are my imaginary friends”, she says “ and I thought that it would be nice to lend  my friends to the people who are sad, miserable and alone. So they can become happy!!!”.

This made perfect sense to me, since I got really happy when she gave me as a gift some sketches and stickers of her imaginary friends. So, I guess that other people could get happy, as well. Don’t you think?

She is also very interested in the concept “Transit Spaces”. Abandoned private spaces that should be open for use by people who need them, for housing for example. But, also, abandoned urban spaces, like parks, that should get a “private” character, in the sense of feeling this place as home, so then people could have motivation of taking care of these places and animating them.
 This interest in “Transit Spaces” stems from her belief that “Our body and our mind are influenced by everything that surrounds us.  So, ourself, actually, is the result of the combination of these surroundings. It’s not “Me” and “I” anymore, but what I am is “my surroundings””.       So...what are you???...

One of her “Transit Spaces” creative art actions this year was in a squat in Spain. The squaters were kicked out after many years of residing there and the entrance of the building was sealed with a wall, so nobody could enter the buliding anymore. Not even the owners! Laura was moved and shocked by this wiriness, so she felt like spreading the message of  “Open the Doors of the Not-in-Use Buildings” by acting in the way she knows better. By drawing the wall!
And guess what was the theme of her graffiti. A door, of course! She even attached a real turn on this imaginary door, so people can open it and get in again. Even the owners!

We don’t need the key, we will just break in!!!!

Another “Transit Space” project of her is called “Pantera Spaniola”. Inspired by the Guerilla Gardening concept and by the ritual of putting a flag in the places that are conquered, she came up with this just amazing idea of leaving in the city streets little bags with seeds of flowers inside. These bags are meant to be found by people and the seeds to be planted in chosen by them urban spaces. The grown flowers will have the role of the flag, which will identify each person’s own private urban space. In that sense, a public space gets the character of a compilation of many small private spaces, to which the "owners" are emotionally attached. These spaces become part of one's home. So, open urban space gets the sense of  home. A home that city people can love and care about.

This is what I call pure and original street art!!!

Feel it as your home!!!

If you want to find more information about this passionate young lady and her authentically artistic “soul”, check flickr.com/b_i_t_x_o   and http://croquetacongelada.blogspot.com .

I am sure you ‘ll love her as much as I did!

What is the value of a t-shirt?

It depends on the t-shirt of course, but what about the case that this t-shirt is designed by a child? And what about if this child is an orphan? Then I guess you would estimate its value in a different way than for a normal t-shirt. Wouldn't you?

 Common Threadz is a charity non-profit organisation, which is active in the welfare of orphans and vulnerable children in Africa.In view of supporting these children, Common Threadz has created the Orphan Collection , which is about t-shirts designed by the children themselves.

The Orphan Collection t-shirts are all limited editions, printed with eco-friendly water-based inks and are available in women, men and kids sizes. Each t-shirt sold from The Orphan Collection provides the financial support needed to feed an orphan or vulnerable child for one month and provide the child with a new school uniform, school supplies and meals for the school year.

                               So, what about a t-shirt made by a small "artist"?

"I like the simplicity of walking,

the simplicity of stones.

I like common means given

the simple twist of art.

I choose lines and circles because they do the job.

My art is about working in the wide world,

wherever, on the surface of the earth.

My work is not urban, nor is it romantic.

It is the laying down of modern ideas

in the only practical places to take them... "

                                                                     Richard Long

                                                              Artist, UK

                                                                        Environmental Art

Via TreeHugger

Are you longing for a carfree city with more space for living and less for cars?

Design student Sara Watson from the University of Central Lancashire took on art as the tool to simply make a car "disappear" by painting it to blend in with the surroundings.

Of course, a bit of creative magic might not be enough to make a car fully vanish. But it sure depict the left-overs more as a ghost from ancient times than as a transportation mean of the future!

Via: Wooster Collective 

Mathias Ahrberg and Wiebke Hövelmeyer are two creative fashion designers from Hamburg, Germany, who are in  love with fair and they love to be fair! So, they created a fair fashion label, the Fairliebt .

We loved their fair t-shirts made by organic cotton, but also their new collection for spring-summer 2009 . Colours, pop-art and retro designs, artistic mood, sexy lines, elegant forms turn the fair organic cotton textiles to a playful fashion fair!!!

Fair enough

“Nightmare Before Valentine ” is a dance group from Berlin that likes to play with toys, flowers, chairs, even candy’ wrappings, creating scenes that refer to another dimension, parallele to this of reality, the dream world.

We were there in their last performance, named “Lilo’s Lido” and we enjoyed the theatricality of the dancers, the alive scenography that was giving the opportunity to each part of the scene to have an active role, the immediacy towards the audience, the postmodern like of choroegraphy, the powerful, moving and expressive music and  last but not least, the costumes made by Cecilia Palmer , founder and designer of Pamoyo label.

Good job girls!

So, you decided to get married!
And you need a wedding dress! A special one!

Mmm, we have something in mind! It is called Blushless and you can find it in Berlin.

But what is so special with this wedding dresses brand?
Well, apart from the contemporary design, which gives a unique, expressive character to the dress and to the bride, the really outstanding part is that it is made by finest eco-friendly materials.

A “green” wedding dress!
Isn’t that special?

While you are browsing around Berlin, one of the most common things that you can see is walls with graffitis. Professional or amateur, beautiful or ugly, artistic or just splashes on the wall, meaningful or not. They are there, standing in front of your eyes, provoking your thoughts, showing to you that they exist and you can't ignore them.

You shouldn't ignore them, anyway. They are part of this city's popular culture . They are formed by Berlin's culture and the same time they form it.

And yes, I will agree with the british guys who took that image at left in Berlin (http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/aharfield/gallery/berlin/) that Berliners love graffiti. And how could be possible not to, after experiencing the fascistic, cold, grey Wall that cut this wonderful place in two pieces? 

Check...if you like...the video about graffiti world in Kreuzberg, Berlin in the link http://www.mindfood.com/at-graffiti-art-berlin-germany-walls-streets-culture.seo 

A "Brick Wall", a "Wired Wall",

a "Graffiti Wall" is better. 

The Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a decade program (2005-2014) led by UNESCO and held in Germany. The ESD means (obtained by BNE-Portal: Education for Sustainable Development ) "education that enables people to foresee, face up and solve problems that threaten the life on our planet  It also signifies education that disseminates the values and principles that are the basis of sustainable development (intergenerational equity, gender parity, social tolerance, poverty reduction, environmental protection and restoration, natural resource conservation, and just and peaceful societies). Lastly, it means education that highlights the complexity and interdependence of three spheres, the environment, society – broadly defined to include culture – and the economy".

Considering education as the core of human's mentality formation, we applaud and promote this kind of initiatives.

The planet belongs to the next generations, so our children should learn to respect and take care of it.

Just how original can your underwear be? Clare Bare is a designer from Brooklyn creating cool ecological vintage lingerie. These pieces are one-of-a-kinds and made from recycled vintage and organic cotton. On Crafting a green world there's an interview with the designer: "They passed around a bunch of fur samples and argued that it is more sustainable to use real fur as opposed to fake fur, because real fur doesn’t create any waste or harmful byproducts. I thought to myself, “Why not just forget about using either of them? Wouldn’t that solve the problem?”

 Via: the öko box blog

In our neighbourhood in Berlin Kreuzberg we just discovered a lovely small shop called Siri na Lata selling a mix of wooden and reclycing jewellery and Brazilian products. The jewels are made by a local designer who works mainly with reclycing and natural materials such as wood and seeds. Quite orginal things. What in example about these Bionade -earrings from recycled Bionade bottle crowns? Very eco-style and with the popularity of the bio-lemonade in Berlin it works almost ironic.

This week I made the great discovery that Komodo , a London based ethical clothing label, has opened shop + showroom in Berlin.

As Berlin doesn't (yet!) count that many salespoints for the green-minded fashion consumer, that's a happy surprise.

044, so is the common name for this space, isn't just a Komodo store and showroom, but also houses the Berlin label Sommergold, a sewing workshop, two architects, a model agency... and speaking to one of the creative minds behind the 044 project, Gereon Pilz van der Grinten, I rather got the impression that these people will just continue setting up new cool projects.

 Komodo makes creative designs for ladies and gentlemen, including cool sneakers and a special Free Tibet collection.

044 - Oranienstr. 44, Berlin-Kreuzberg 

Berlin is quite known for it's creative scene, and now the eco design thing is starting to hit the thin here as well. There's happening a lot, just also quite decentral. So time to unite! On the eco-fashion scene we're trying to get people know each other and form a network, and we're discovering new projects, designers and shops in Berlin every week. A lot of them are really local. I guess the coming year a lot of new initiatives and labels will see the light. We'll report on more cool founds the coming months.

One of our newfounds is the label Kenpanda, with fine collections of shirts, dresses, and hoodies creatively screenprinted with animal and street art inspired graphics and made from fair trade, organic cotton. Pretty original and playfull photoshootings. The label is run by Efka Weber and Kenan Polat who live on the Berlin Island Stralau. Enjoy!

(picture by Kenpanda) 

We all know about turning off our stereo or lamps when we don't use them, but still most people don't believe it when they hear that the internet is already producing more CO2 emissions than the worldwide airplane traffic . Trend: growing rapidly. If you're still believing the internet saves our planet by reducing emissions, think again!

To all people wanting to live a green lifestyle: if you have to decide between using the internet or travelling unlimited around the world, what would you choose? I would definately give up the internet for that ;) And anyway aim to travel emissionfree...

I'm already doing a computerfree sunday for my personal wellbeing, but what about organizing such a thing as a global action? Hey, Adbusters , are you reading?

By the way, are you already doing your green thing ? This month the green thing is to turn off your gadgets and reduce your emissions. There's a boom of sites helping you living greener with tips and tricks, but this one is fun and arty. Also check out their videosection, with a nice collection of green issue video's ...

A groovy quite from the Green Thing crew: 

"You see, we’ve slowly let machines take over – and not even big, scary machines like The Terminator or the Daleks. No, the ones that sit in the corner of our rooms looking all fun and innocent and labour-saving whilst secretly guzzling electricity like there’s no tomorrow."

There's a lot of stuff you can think of buying ethical, but what about jewelry? While most jewelry buyers might not think about the origins of their beauty gadgets, silver, gold and diamonds are often sourced in slave-like circumstances and couse a lot of civil wars and conflicts. Well, no one wants a wedding ring with such a story , right?

Conflict free diamonds are guaranteed to originate from ethical and environmentally responsible sources. They are free from violence and human rights abuses, and are produced with minimal environmental impact. Though conflict free diamonds origin from "save" countries like Canada, it's quite a step forward when people buy their jewelry conscious.

Though the circumstances around gold and diamonds are famous, I am quite sure other costly materials and gemstones are sourced under not all too comfortable circumstances. Hopefully fair trade can make a progress in this sector, too... So why not ask around before you buy your next jewel...?

The jewelry brand Brilliant Earth offers next to Canadian sourced Diamonds jewellery from recycled gold and "socially conscious saffires". Brilliant chic stuff, but how socially conscious can a saffire itself be? Will it run away from the rich and jump to the poor?

 Via: Feel Good Style

Just discovered the label Sub Urban Riot from California, using 100 percent organic cotton and low impact dying for their shirts. Their sustainability is not just a trend thing, they say: "We don’t do it because green is in. We do it so your kids aren’t born with three arms and a tail."

  Some great stuff, their asymetric V-neck shirts got a good boost of 80s retro and are just as cool as Pamoyo's asymetric v-neck tees...

Organic labels can be totally cool and sexy, sometimes they're a bit slow on trends. Some designers want to have their shirts produced just on the moment they order them, and get them by airplain the next day. Great for them, but maybe not for those sewing at nighttime under great pressure. Or for the environment, off course.

Can fashion become sustainable without changing it's deadly rush of short-term hypes and trends? Or are small labels and local production units able to catch up the fashion speed with a sustainable approach? At least sustainable labels like Sub Urban Riot show the way

Via: Chic by Nature 

  When I think about solar energy, I still see this static blue panels on roofs. Outdated! 

Architect Sheila Kennedy has developed solar textiles -- membrane-like surfaces that can be draped like curtains or used to cover walls or roofs -- using 3D modeling software. They work just like conventional solar cells are made of similar semiconductor materials.

Kennedy recently exhibited her project, called "Soft House", at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany in which she transformed typical curtains into energy-harvesting surfaces able to track the sun.

Wrap up

All that solar energy would provide a welcome source of power for a home's solid state lighting and typical assortment of gadgets/devices -- tools, phones, laptops, etc. In addition to absorbing sunlight throughout the day, the curtains can form an insulating air layer for the building envelope; a central curtain can be lowered to create an extra room or folded upward to become a suspended chandelier.

Very great for your luxurious sustainable lifestyle home, one could critize, but Sheila Kennedy is also working on a project to develop this kind techniques for areas in development countries where people do not have electricity.

Solar textile fashion

It seems there's quite some interest for solar powered fashion products like bags but also jeans or bikinis, and these solar textiles might give it a little boost. I don't know about the solar jeans or bikini jet, but I'm quite hot for a solar backpack to get my laptop going while travelling...

 Via Treehugger

The cultural activist media network Adbusters launches a design contest to design a flag for global citizenship without clichés:

 "The time has come for a radical shift in priorities. We are now faced with some of the most daunting global challenges in human history. These are real targets, worthy of our problem-solving skills, ripe for our intervention. Yet those who have the vision to rise above national and political boundaries still have no symbol to rally under. We invite you to create a flag – free from language and well-worn clichés – that embodies the idea of global citizenship. A symbol that triggers pride and cohesion, whether worn on a backpack, displayed on a door, or flown on a flagpole. A symbol for anyone to declare membership in a growing and vital human cooperative. We invite you to prove that design has a real role to play in the fate of our world."

Your creative input will be judged by a panel of prominent design professionals, then featured in Adbusters and supporting design publications. The winning flag will go into production, ready for flying by the patriotic citizens of Earth. Deadline for entries is December 1, 2008.

By the way, thank you Adbusters for featuring Pamoyo on the Blackspot blog

We are happy to announce that the first pattern from the Styled With Heart collection - Shirt Deluxe - is now online and available for download!

Check it out in the Atelier 

The other styles will be following the coming days. 

Just as I was philosophizing about great things to upcycle and multifunctional clothing, I bumped across this amazing, stunning, great fabric. Or, calling it a fabric just seems a bit too dull. This Sonic Fabric , invented by artist Alyce Santoro , consists half of woven audio cassette tapes, half cotton. The post-consumer polyester tape is one of the strongest of it's kind and creates an extremely durable fabric, but the best part is probably it's ability to PLAY MUSIC! By moving the tape heads from a walkman across the fabric, you can listen to the recorded sounds. And so Santoro created a Sonic Rythm Dress for musician John Fishman with special tapehead gloves which he played live in concert some years ago.

Alyce Santoro says about her source of inspiration "When I was a kid I used to imagine that I could hear Cat Stevens or Beethoven's 6th or whatever had been recorded onto the tape wafting out into the air if the wind hit the tell-tail just the right way. Years later, I learned about Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags. Colorful squares of fabric silkscreened with mantras are hung outdoors in auspicious locations where their blessings can be activated and sent off into the world on the wind. It seemed a natural progression to me to combine these two concepts to create a fabric with sounds I considered sacred woven into it."

The sonic fabric is produced industrially in the US and available per yard from Designtex.

For those of you who had enough of the ordinary virtual livingrooms by swedish interior corporations, here is the The Room For Change! Inspiring designs to set a new green, creative standard to interior designs and sustainable lifestyle.

The Brighton-based communications agency Neo designed this space with eco-friendly products and installations, to give consumers everyday ideas for greener living. The creative team at neo say that they have created a unique combination of comedy, cross-stitch and common sense. Installations include a goat made from hubcaps (to encourage people to consider buying ethical or recycled products) and a toilet full of mobile phones to communicate how recycling your mobile can fund capital projects in the third world (as well as highlighting the dangers of texting on the toilet).

The Room For Change was shown at the green lifestyle event LONDON AWARE 08 in May. We are looking forward to the next initiatives of these neo creatives.

http://www.roomforchange.org

After some chaotic start up weeks, we at Pamoyo are celebrating summertimes with good news and cool new clothes. The last days we got nice reports on Pamoyo by Treehugger and Creative Commons and many other blogs and online media.

Being dedicated bloggers ourselves, we liked to get Pamoyo out through the bloggosphere first, and we like the way ot goes. Definately a lot of interest is for the open source idea and the creative commons lisence. Therefore, we are fixing the last details as fast as possible to get all patterns online.

 Also expected: a new Pamoyo limited screenprinted shirt collection out soon...

Recycling bags have become a show off for urban creatives and intellectuals nowadays. Most of them look quite the same, altough the quality and prices differ a lot (the really good ones are mostly above 100 Euro). But why stick with the square bag if recycling offers so much original possibilities?

If you look for something more exclusive, maybe the ball bag from Abteil is something for you. Suitable for the next gallery opening or... a local football match.

 via: Konsumguerilla

Some years ago, a wave of great drawings and peices of art occured on walls worldwide. The movement of street art gained so much popularity, that the best artists got into merchandising or galleries and museums, while others sold themselves to advertising. Recently, the activist magazine Adbusters declared: street art is dead.

Some great new artists show that they can still be innovative with their street art. A great example is the street artist Blu . He recently painted so huge walls in our area in Kreuzberg (see pics), but more amazing are his street art animations . He did a small animation like that indoors in the Backjumps streetart exhibition in Berlin last year, but this one is outside, and quite stunning. Respect!

Do you wear elefantskin? snakeleather? tigerfur? No, probably not, you would never do that. But wearing leather shoes or a woolen blazer is just something one doesn't think about too much. But if we want to live a more conscious life, maybe we should.

Actually we never discussed whether our Pamoyo clothes have to be vegetarian or vegan, or not. We have been bussy creating an ethical, environmental production, but until now we just used materials without any animals involved. It happened to be vegetarian. Just like that.

There are quite some reasons to be sceptical about leather and wool production, and I would be quite critical stepping into leather related products. But what about silk? Next to the conventionally produced silk, there is a range of  alternative silks: organic silk, peace silk, wild, "vegetarian" silk and recycled silk. Vegetarian Silk? Just wait till the moths leave their coccoon. A bit of meditation and pacience is required here, but a wonderful, animal friendly prouduct!

There is a good new article on the pros and contras of silk on the Green Cotton blog.

If we would ever come to a decision on this, I would choose for wild or recylced silk. Or maybe we would just ban any animal related products, because we simply don't like the huge meat machine and it's enivonmental impact. For now, I am happy we are not involved in any animal related products and why should we?

Image: organic silk lingerie at keetsa.com

In a short time, green living has dressed up in a cool, sexy image and sells to people who search to spend their bucks to a quality living. For a few years, organic food or clothing was something for wierdos and extremists. What a change. Just, I'm starting to get a bit concerned that the new, cool image of eco fashion, green lifestyle and LOHAS (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability) is too much targeted at the wealthy, spending consumer. And this concern I hear a lot, not only from environmentalists but also from people working in the communication sector. The marketing succes of LOHAS can also harm the general image of eco as something too exclusive, too expensive, etc.

So, time to break a bit with the eco chic and get organic & sustainable consume into every available lifestyle. A good, refreshing example of Anti-LOHAS eco fashion is the Italian Vegan Label Eblood . The label contains a virbant mix of underground, straight edge, rock and roll and militant veganism. With style.

Eblood Clothing openly expresses it's sympathy with animal liberation and abandons any animal related compoent in the clothing. They also declare themselves solidair with the death sentenced journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. As LOHAS and organic high end fashion connect to white colours (spiritual, stylish, unbleached, natural, clean, innocent), Eblood connects to the opposite of Black colours: activism, punk, tattoos, etc. Very refreshing, for a change!

Fresh eco fashion from the Austrian label Göttin des Glücks. Funky stuff. Produced Fair Trade in Mauritius, with organic cotton. Being present this year on Bread & Butter and the Ethical Fashion Show, they might succeed to grab some more attention. Keep watchin them. Nice, crazy website, too.

The German sphere eco fashion scene is growing... and this is just the start. There is quite some fresh labels popping up, merely shirt labels though. It's getting hard to keep the overview...

Any insider tips welcome! For our own collection of labels. And because we at Pamoyo believe it is cooler to share than to keep things for yourself. We share our designs and visions with you. And you are invited to share your ideas, creative outburst and insider knowledge with us. Go ahead.

share your stuff with us!

We had our first weeks after putting our new website on air, sold the first items, had some cool blogs writing about us. We had good feedback and tough feedback, made some mistakes and worked too much. Well, all the romantic that comes along with starting up...

This website is still under development, we work on German, Dutch and Swedish info parts, are uploading the patterns for Pamoyo's creative commons licenced open source fashion section , and ease the webshop a bit more.

We're going to continue our tour through the bloggosphere and the world. We will start selling in a few Berlin shops soon, and head for a few shops in Sweden and The Netherlands as well.

Upcoming is a small limited collection of screenprinted Pamoyo shirts by a British fashion designer. All done in an environmental friendly way, off course.

If you are interested, here are some of the blogposts on Pamoyo:

The Green Loop Blog

The Alternative Consumer

Karmakonsum

Modabot

Styles Report Berlin

Drop Dead Green

Non Toxic Vision

Nice White Lady

Designspotter

Kirstin Brodde

Green Guys Global 

Image by Pamoyo 

It is totally amazing how stylish just rubbish can be. These recycled rubbish items from Arthunt are pretty cool.  If you want to grab attention, these creations by designer Val Hunt might be the perfect jewels for you. Stylish and very original, in a stunning combination of ancient culture, fair trade  crafts and futuristic design.

Left picture: "Intergallactic Helmet" made from Tennents cans. Right picture: "Climate Change Costume" made from drinks cans, bottle tops, carrier bags and plastic bottles. If you want to see the newest in Recycling: in December the Drap-Art International Recycling Festival takes place in Barcelona. And off course, if you like wearing unique vintage recycling clothes, don't forget to order a Pamoyo shirt from the Styled with Heart collection before they are sold out! 

Via: Haute Nature

When I was in Nairobi last November, I visited the workshop of Unique Eco , a company recycling flipflops. From old flipflops they make all kinds of creative stuff: jewellery, toys, bags, and even sculptures. Like now recently a huge wale made from recycled flip flops !

 When I met Unique Eco founder and designer Julie Church, she explained how she came to the idea by being confronted with a beach full of flip flop waste. She started organizing the collection of the waste and searched for ways to recycle the plastic. Well, a lot of cool stuff as you can see on the Unique Eco website !

We discussed the possibilities of the material. It is soft and bendable, but not all too strong. I asked her if it is possible to make new flipflops out of old flipflops, but she said the material they created from it was too soft for that.

Yesterday I went for a fresh haircut to the nearby Freischneider Loge. The Loge is the art studio and salon of DJ-Artist-Hairdresser Tim Pernitzsch. He is an eccentric man, his studio is quite spaced out, full of small re-cut pieces of paper and trash, using his scissors to create his studio into a hypnotizing all-present installation.

Your unconscious is not only cut open by the scissors of his creations, your mind is also also swallowed by freaky, experimental electro: Tim used to be a Berlin DJ in the good old Techno times.

When I visit him, wether it is for a haircut or just a cup of tea, our talks meander between political conspiracies and art, like his influences by artists like the provocative German artist Jonathan Meese and his not less provocative uncle Joseph Beuys .

Is Pernitzsh a young Beuys?

 500 Godz is a cool, new organic T-shirt label from Berlin using prints from local and internationally know street artists.This morning I met up with Daniel, the founder of the label, for a breakfast here outside our door in Görlitzer Park. He has a background as a Berlin DJ and in the music industry, but quited his job and started this fresh shirt label. It is remarcable to meet so many likeminded people who quited their job or carreer and started something new. Mostly with a good idea and a wish to create something in a sustainable, socially responsible way.

The last collections of 500 Godz are from the brittish streetartist AME72 and the German streetartsit Wow the Dead. Soon expected: shirts by Berlin streetartist Alias. The shirts are produced in Turkey exclusive for 500 Godz and certified organic under the GOTS standard.

One of the cool things of 500 Godz is that the label works with organically certified screenprints. They are printed in the UK by Tshirts & Sons, the only screen printer in Europe that is certified organic. Hopefully more of those printers will come, any good suggestions for sustainable printers in Germany are welcome, as we also plan to work with prints for our next Pamoyo items .

Some people think trash just stinks, others love it. It's incredible what one can find just on the streets, not to speek of all the hidden trash in offices and basements. Actually, trash is the canvas and muse for a lot of artists and designers.

On an event in the SelfHub in Berlin last tuesday I met Anna Lena Schiller, who held a presentation about her project Trashury . In her project she connects the manufacturing industry with designers of all disciplines to make new products out of reclaimed material. 

 Trashury is Schillers final exam project as part of the KaosPilot education in Denmark. The KaosPilots is a university for business design and social innovation which trains young entrepreneurs and project leaders with a creative edge.

It seems recycling is on an absolute retour to coolness...

 Image: Walking Bike by Max Knight, through the Trashury blog

Just a few days before we launched our Pamoyo website, I stumbled over the music of Court Lajoie on a blog of Ode Magazine. Somhow her music fitted to our collection. I contacted Court and found out that she's not only a great singer, but also bussy with envirnomental issues and organic farming in her personal life. In this interview the story behind her new album Mindshift, and her vision on sustainability. If you like, you can download the whole album from her website.

What is the story behind your new album Mindshift?

A few years ago I was living in Toronto, and went to one of David Suzuki’s presentations about environmental awareness and compassion. Afterwards, he was signing books and inside mine he wrote, “For a mindshift”.  This set many events into motion ; books, conversations, films, and experiences that expanded my perspective on the state of this world.  The first song on the album, “Connect”, seemed to provide a map for the rest of the album - connecting to the problems, connecting to the life force we’ve forgotten, connecting with eachother, connecting with a sense of purpose and responsibility.  These songs reflect my mindshift.

What's your story behind the songs?

In 2006, the flow of life led me to Scotland. It was my first time moving to a foreign country alone, and the only sense of home I had was inside the notebook I carried with me everywhere. I’ve always enjoyed writing, but during this time my heart was bursting passionately with thoughts and feelings that had to be released. I believe that everything happens with purpose, and now as I’m writing this, I realize how everyone I met during my travels gave me gifts that were pivotal to the birth of these songs. After a year in Glasgow and traveling Europe, I came back to Canada with a notebook full of songs. I decided to record them with a producer from my hometown of Sarnia, Adam Miner. I didn’t really know him that well, but my intuition was pulling me to work with him, and as the songs evolved to the colourful jewels they are now, I knew it was the right decision.

Why did you choose for publishing under a creative commons lisence?

The next decision I had to make was how I would release this album. After much contemplation, releasing it into the world online and pay-what-you-feel was my choice. Considering the nature of the music, I didn’t feel right about manufacturing hundreds of CDs, which aren’t biodegradable. The music industry has been crumbling financially but growing creatively since music has become downloadable, and instead of resisting this change, I decided to evolve with it. I believe that like the elements (earth-air-water-fire), music is a gift that should be lovingly shared. The creativity that flowed from the source through me isn’t a “resource” to be exploited, nor are the elements. Using a creative commons license is a good way to legally protect my music while at the same time setting to free to be shared. As for pay-what-you-feel, I prefer the idea that listeners who love the music have the option of karmically donating what they feel to support future musical creations.

How can we make the world a more sustainable place?

In the USA there's 200.000 abandoned gas stations. And if the gas prices go up more and our oil reserves are spoiled, this might become a global trend. So what to do with all these ampty gas stations?

Artist and environmental activist Jennifer Marsh recyJennifer Marshcled a gas station with help of thousands of people from 15 countries, dressing the gas station up with individual cloth panels.

Via: Tree Hugger  

There's a whole wave of new vegan luxury brands, especially in shoes and bags. I'm trying to imagine this new vegan styleaddict. Female, midthirty, single, good job, high heels, addicted to shopping and luxury, but looking for more in life, and docking on to poweryoga and a vegetarian lifestyle. Well at least I never met a classical vegan wearing a luxury 700 Dollars bag, did you?

But when you can't live without the newest Louis Vuitton bag but also can't live with the idea that Louis is killing poor cows for your luxury bag, here's the alternative: the Vegan Queen Eco It Bag is sexy, vegan and expensive. And if you need shoes with the bag, I would recommand you the exclusive shoes from Beyond Skin or Georgette.

Via: The Green Loop Blog

In the last years, Berlin rapidly became a major hotspot for short visit "Touris". Pubcrawls, tours with a Trabbi or a donkey, it's all there. In downtown Kreuzberg you stumble over the daily Streetart Tours. Age of those taking that tour: about 45. A good part of sustainable tourism is staying invisible as a tourist. Respecting local habits. Going local. Being local.

Yesterday I was on the Lido Kreativmesse and spotted Berlin Im Ohr ("Berlin Sounds to Go"), a creative audiotour you can walk individually. You pick up an MP3 and get a spheric trip through the city. With music, urban sounds, speaches of politicians, mixed all together with a taste of humor and stlye. You can just hang out with the tour and pretend you're local youth.

The accompanying shirts of Berlin Sounds to Go are made of organic cotton. 

A lot of ethical clothing directories just list some brands, often quite randomly. The new eco-fashion portal Bransparent researches every label through a questionaire before adding them to their list. In this way consumers can be sure that only social and/or green fashion brands are shown.

Partnering with some fashion profi's Bransparent is building up an information and shopping portal for consumers who want to be aware of the social and ecological background of the products they buy. I visited the company recently, and they are still working day and night to make their project succesfull. An interesting mix of social pioneering and smart business. I'm curious about their upcoming projects here in Germany... 

Next week Thursday the Grass Routes Foundation presents it's projects and vision in the SelfHub in Berlin. Pamoyo will be there with a short performance. Be there, and change the world with style!

 Please note that the event has been moved to the 15th of May!

For more info click here

Today I had contact with the Creative Commons office and as far as they know we are the first fashion label under a Creative Commons license. The coming days we will publish patterns and designs online and in the future make it possible to share your own creations and patterns as well. Visitors of the Pamoyo website can use these patterns for making their own styles.

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

Creative Commons offers an alternative to strict, often ineffective copyright rules. Instead of keeping your rights to yourfself, the use of open source for creative production makes that people can share and build on each other. As with the music on this website, shared with us by Court Lajoie

 Ryann is a small eco fashion label from New York by holistic health specialist and designer Riana Blyer. Her vision is to connect the artistic creativity of fashion and the importance of environmental preservation. We like her stuff, a bit decadent, but with flair. And some models are as assymetric as our own Pamoyo cuts, nice and unusual as we are!

  Trendspotters, futurologists, researchers and marketing experts all predict that green lifestyle is not just a short hype but will stay a growing lifestyle focus on the longer term. If you consume healthy and conscious, you belong to the LOHAS (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability). LOHAS is often seen as an avant garde lifestyle, meanwhile rapidly influencing the mainstream market.

In the end of May there is a LOHAS Conference in Frankfurt, and connected to it a GreenCamp on all kinds of related issues. There will be twenty workshops on issues like green fashion, slowfood, sustainable design and climate change. The workshops are organized by application and voted for by the participants in beforehand. A rather progressive and original way of organizing a business conference, and I'm looking forward to the event.

There are still a few places available, so be fast!

On tuesday 29th of April 13.30 GMT+1 Pamoyo will be on the European cultural TV station ARTE during an item on Eco Fashion in Berlin on the Lifestyle Magazine Program Chic . The other labels in the item are Slowmo and Magdalena Schaffrin. The program will be online until one week after broadcasting. Check it out!

Cecilia Palmer is a young, Swedish woman living in Berlin. She studied courses in sustainable engineering and arts in Sweden and France, gathered environmental practice through organic gardening and worked for a few NGO's as creative director.

Cecilia, why did you start Pamoyo?

“Some say design is only about surface. I say design is about everything you express. Pamoyo is designed with depth, with an urgency. It’s not just clothes, it’s about styling a better world. I wanted to create an experimental, creative label that combines social values, fair production, and respect for the environment with an artistic drive. For me Pamoyo is a way to find out ways to be both creative and sustainable, and for small designers that’s not all that easy. It’s a lot of pioneering, a creative research.”

What inspires you?

“I’m inspired by things going out of line, by irregularities, sticking out, imperfection. I like playing with culture, mixing and remixing styles cross borders of subcultures and styles. With Pamoyo we sample as with music. Style elements from vintage clothing are put in a complete other context. A men’s suit can end up in a cool summer dress you wear on the beach. In the future we want to implement that concept on a larger scale, in a way that it’s economically sustainable.”

What’s your vision with Pamoyo?

”I want to involve a lot of people to give their creative input, Pamoyo is going to be a laboratory for innovative ideas and sustainable production method. On a rather small scale we try out new design and production concepts.”

Can you give examples?

”We make the designs and patterns of our clothing Open Source. We don’t make designs to protect them, but to spread. The designs and patterns can be found on our website, and anyone can share it and use it. In this way, someone can take an idea or design and build on it. We want to make it possible to build upon each other’s work in such a thing as fashion design, and we’re planning to make a community platform out of that.”

Fashion 2.0?

Yeah, we do this because creativity is something enriching. When you collaborate with others, the chance to develop great things is higher.”

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Frans Prins is a dutch guy living in Berlin. He studied Humanistics and is managing the Grass Routes Foundation.

Humanist, environmentalist, cultural creative, LOHAS?

“The popularity of green living, of LOHAS (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability), is a sign of our time. That people on such a large scale are committed to the world they live in, that people are conscious about their planet, is an enormous revolution that does not have it's equal in human history. It's a great chance to change things on global scale. And this time it is consumers, active citizens, social entrepreneurs and web-users who create it. Like we do with our fashion label Pamoyo.”

What's your drive behind creating Pamoyo?

“The social and environmental impact of conventional clothing production is still deadly shocking. Pesticides kill thousands of people yearly. With the rising social and environmental awareness of consumers the topic is also hitting the fashion scene. Using sustainable textiles like organic cotton is the only alternative.”

Why organic cotton?

“Last year I visited the organic cotton farms in Uganda and Turkey where we currently have our cotton from. Farming life in Africa is quite traditional and poor, and organic helps the farmers and their families a lot. The extras earned through the production can be used for sending their kids to school or building a roof on their house. Organic in this areas is really the best because it’s close to the way production is done for ages. It combines old practice with new scientific knowledge. What’s more genius than using red peppers to keep away the insects?”

Can cotton be sustainable?

Well, organic makes a lot of difference, but growing cotton in general uses a lot of water which in some regions cause a environmental damage. Next to organic cotton and recycled vintage, we are going to work with other organic materials as well. There is more and more good qualities of sustainabally grown textiles like nettel, linen, hemp, bamboo.”

What's your vision for Pamoyo?

“Pamoyo is a social label. We are building up a strong collective of young designers who give their creative input. I would love to involve some designers from Africa as well, and to set up some cool projects with a mix of environmental protection and a creative, sustainable development. The future is in local production. In self-sustaining buildings. In totally new ways of sustainable living and producing. It would be interesting for us to create a vertically integrated production chain where everything from seed to fashion endproduct is done at one place. Using cradle to cradle, generating our own energy for production. A good mix of traditional and hyper-modern techniques.”

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Since I visited the organic cotton fields in Uganda some months ago,  I am always happy to see the ethical fashion brands like Edun who use that cotton. And some of these brands do not only sell over a good sustainable lifestyle concept with nicely sourced organic textiles, but  have their own projects running.  An amazing example is Wildlife Works,  a project that integrates ecological vision, wildlife protection, social aid and...fashion.

Wildlife Works has created their own "wildlife sanctuary" in Kenia, now over 80,000 hectares large. Nex to the protected nature area, they have their own "eco factory", where the clothing of Wildlife Works is produced by local women. For Wildlife Works creating a sustainable economic base is a way to protect endangered species.

Rob, who's running Wildlife Works in Kenya, is an energetic guy, he's direct, sarcastic, extravert. When you meet him you understand that Wildlife Works is not just another charity thing. It's business loaded with vision. And the business is so succesfull, that new wildlife sanctuaries with eco factory are being set up in other countries as well.

Wildlife Works has a smart strategy, they choose a hot location in California to get their shirts sold. And with a great supporting audience, with celebrities like Paris Hilton, Liz Phair and Britney Spears. 

Elegant white cotton, playful prints, and a summerish attitude. The new collection of the Berliner streetwear label Slowmo shows that one of the first German organic streetwear labels have grown up without loosing the spirit of being young.

The label Slowmo was founded in 2006 by Melchior and Felicia Moss. The brother and sister, who run their business together with full dedication, where convinced of going organic from the very start. For the clothing they use orgnaic certified cotton and have their production in Germany. While Feilicia, a graduated fashion designer who studied at Esmod, takes care of styles and cuts, brother Melchior take care of the marketing with one foot in the local scene. One can find their positive attitude back in the clothing designs, but also in Slowmag, an inspiring magazine they publish with every collection.

Moss & Moss run their office in Berlin Friedrichshain, a rapidly developing area where underground and designer luxus still coexist. When the new collection is out, boxes are stuffed around their desks. They had a good media coverage in Germany, but as I understood it, they are not aiming to go big, but aim to stay a designer label. Their new collection still reflects the grounders spirit: young, innocent, idealistic, fresh. I like it that they stay so close to who they are.

Look lovely... smile beautifully... stay open minded and... keep it slowmo.

After a long time of fixing and trixing, the green fashion label Pamoyo celebrates it's official launch!

We waited till spring arrived in Berlin, and here it is, with glamour and sushine. As with spring, things grow and blossom, and we expect more flowers to come out... So stay keeping an eye on us if you like, and... enjoy!

Pamoyo was founded in 2007 by Frans Prins and Cecilia Palmer to design a fashion label with green vision and creative edge. Prins & Palmer are known as the initiators of the Berlin Fair Fashion Affair and the Grass Routes Foundation.

The label works community based. The collections derive from a growing, creative collective of young designers. From the online sales, two Euro per sold item goes to social-environmental projects.

All items of the “STYLED WITH HEART” collection are unique, one-of-a-kind pieces made from high quality organic cotton and vintage elements. Every piece is hand made and unique. Integrated recycled materials and a rough sewing style make them feel authentic and exclusive. The collection is inspired by samples of street style and an ironic re-use of retro images and sub-cultural identities.

You are warmly invited to spread the word about this new born green fashion label!