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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