‘Think, intervene and send’ are the main lines of the Boomshirt project, a shirt that was passed between 3 designers, each intervening on it independently and then sending it to the next designer. Boomshirt exposition during Estoril Fashionart Festival in Portugal exhibited 50 shirts from 150 diferent international designers.

I participated in this project together with Yoad David Luxembourg and Wieteke Opmeer.

The idea of my intervention was to extend the use of the shirt. Without eliminating any original part of the shirt or its primary use, a new part was added made of a special fabric- Khadi.

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From 14-19 of June took place at Ljubljana University(Slovenia) the first collaborative Openwear workshop: Forward to Basics.

Organized by EDUfashion, this project is fostering community, collaboration and innovation in order to provide a new vision and practice for fashion. To develop an Openwear community - a collaborative platform for fashion creation and continuous education, emphasizing skill-sharing and ethical branding are the main goals.

I was invited to participate together with other 7 brands/design studios: I-Gle Studio, Oloop Design, Open Source Pants, Pamoyo, Jure Purgaj, Serpica Naro and Yoad David Luxembourg. For 5 days we worked together mixing, changing, producing and prototyping, eventually reaching the goal of having a collaborative capsule collection of 8 items.

During this week I worked more closely with Cecilia Palmer from the brand Pomoyo. Together we researched into ways of re-using men’s shirts into all kinds of garments. It was important not only to find a good piece but also to find processes of making that we could transmit to others in the community later on.

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ELEMENTUM is now featured on the Dutch Blog Red- For the best things in life.

I was asked by the Portuguese development organization-ADXTUR to create a clothing collection for the local weavers of Aldeias do Xisto to produce. To answer their request I created a series of workshops/ classes for the weavers. 

Click on the Weaving Design post to see more about this project.

In the past month I have been working at "Aldeias do Xisto" villages in the center of Portugal. 
I was assign to develop a project with the local weavers, but about that I will tell you more later in another post.
What I want to share with you now is my fascination for all kinds of plants and vegetation. And with this post begins a new section of Things called "Collecting". 

Chapter I : Collecting Green. 

Hope you enjoy and participate. 

This video is from the new ELEMENTUM clothing collection: refine & hand made lines.
Presented at THE KEY TO in Berlin fashion week in January 2010.
REFINE Elementum clothing line is a warm-hearted knitwear designed and 3D knitted in The Netherlands from the finest Peruvian alpaca & organic merino wool in undyed colors.
HAND MADE is hand knitted in Europe from the finest Peruvian alpaca & merino wool.

While presenting at THE KEY TO in Berlin we made a small video of the event.
The key to is an international event for green fashion sustainable lifestyle and culture.
Many thanks to Nichon Glerum for her precious assistance & all those who kindly visit us.

thekey.to/home/The new collection is ready and showing now at THE KEY TO in Berlin.
Take a look at the look book of the collection and enjoy!

PS- we will post the video soon. 

    

    

    
Photography by Yoad David Luxembourg © Daniela Pais 2010.