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Fashion Week is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with a new look, as a generation for whom upcycling is the new normal has taken center stage: dressing well is back after two years of decline, but the rules have changed.
According to The Guardian , for 25-year-old fashion designer Conner Ives, the ideas that give rise to his vintage-style cocktail dresses and streetwear don't start in a sketchbook, but in the Sheffield warehouse, where he searches through old “jewelry” t-shirts that can be cut and joined to create looks .
The recycled clothing trend
"We spend hours sorting through piles of shirts, and what we do depends on what we find that day." Other days, Ives wakes up to 50 photos of vintage piano shawls , sent via WhatsApp messages from a dealer in Pakistan, from which he chooses the most interesting pieces to rework.
I want to [show] the idea that second hand is somehow the best.
Personally, I always prefer a vintage t-shirt to a new one: it's much more romantic.
Conner Ives, fashion designer.
Second-hand clothing makes up 75% of its raw Changsha Mobile Number List materials, and the brand's labels carry the motto "Quality things are not afraid of time . " Ives was recruited by Rihanna to join her design team while she was still a student at Central St Martins, and already has a dress in the Costume Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
But after two years of restrictions, her show on the opening day of London Fashion Week, in what was the old Selfridges car park, was her first experience on the catwalk.
digital clothing parade
In the 26-piece collection, a Paris
tourist T-shirt became an hourglass-shaped minidress, its curves fitting the iconic silhouette of a shimmering Eiffel Tower. Two gray sports team t-shirts were combined into a long column dress with a macrame fringe skirt.
Side design is a promising business model, because there are already a lot of clothes in the world.
Conner Ives, fashion designer.
But using found objects poses a challenge for production. Although customers can request a color combination when ordering, each of the garments patched from old pieces or sewn from shawls is unique. “It's a different way of doing things, and the only way to know if we can expand this business is to try,” says the designer.
Digital clothing: Meta-designs in London
One of the biggest moments of London Fashion Week will take place simultaneously on a Tate Britain catwalk and in the metaverse . The fluid silhouettes and painterly colors of the Roksanda brand, whose sophisticated dresses have a loyal following among an art world and red carpet clientele, do not fit with the Metaverse, where the aesthetic is led by games and until now tends to the metallic cyborgs and the animal fantasy.
In a tie-up that reflects how seriously the fashion world is taking the Metaverse, designer Roksanda Ilincic has teamed up with the Digital Fashion Institute to create an NFT dress that will go on sale in a range of formats that They range from £25 for one of the 500 3D renders , up to £5,000 for one of the 3D animations with software files that will allow an avatar to wear the design.
digital clothing in the metaverse
For me, the beauty of the Metaverse is that anything is possible. A dress that changes color, or disappears and reappears: if you can imagine it, you can do it.
Roksanda Ilincic, designer.
He believes that resistance to the Metaverse is probably futile. “I look at my daughter and see that digital is clearly where her generation is headed. The Metaverse is a bit like what happened when e-commerce started and the luxury industry didn't want anything to do with it, and look how it ended ," says Ilincic.
However, the designer admits she was surprised by the complexity of producing the digital version, which will be featured in her Tate gallery exhibition. She "thought it would be enough to press a button to do what you want, but it's much more complicated" and she adds that she hopes fashion can "infiltrate" the Metaverse.
digital clothing collection
Fashion has a lot to offer. It not only brings glamour, but also a history of design and creativity that can enrich the digital environment. I hope that the Metaverse becomes a place where many different generations and groups and people can find beauty.
Roksanda Ilincic, designer.
A week of 86 live shows seems like good news to most attendees, but the British Fashion Council's Caroline Rush is more excited about the 61 events remaining digital, believing a hybrid model is what best suited to a modern industry.
According to The Guardian , for 25-year-old fashion designer Conner Ives, the ideas that give rise to his vintage-style cocktail dresses and streetwear don't start in a sketchbook, but in the Sheffield warehouse, where he searches through old “jewelry” t-shirts that can be cut and joined to create looks .
The recycled clothing trend
"We spend hours sorting through piles of shirts, and what we do depends on what we find that day." Other days, Ives wakes up to 50 photos of vintage piano shawls , sent via WhatsApp messages from a dealer in Pakistan, from which he chooses the most interesting pieces to rework.
I want to [show] the idea that second hand is somehow the best.
Personally, I always prefer a vintage t-shirt to a new one: it's much more romantic.
Conner Ives, fashion designer.
Second-hand clothing makes up 75% of its raw Changsha Mobile Number List materials, and the brand's labels carry the motto "Quality things are not afraid of time . " Ives was recruited by Rihanna to join her design team while she was still a student at Central St Martins, and already has a dress in the Costume Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
But after two years of restrictions, her show on the opening day of London Fashion Week, in what was the old Selfridges car park, was her first experience on the catwalk.
digital clothing parade
In the 26-piece collection, a Paris
tourist T-shirt became an hourglass-shaped minidress, its curves fitting the iconic silhouette of a shimmering Eiffel Tower. Two gray sports team t-shirts were combined into a long column dress with a macrame fringe skirt.
Side design is a promising business model, because there are already a lot of clothes in the world.
Conner Ives, fashion designer.
But using found objects poses a challenge for production. Although customers can request a color combination when ordering, each of the garments patched from old pieces or sewn from shawls is unique. “It's a different way of doing things, and the only way to know if we can expand this business is to try,” says the designer.
Digital clothing: Meta-designs in London
One of the biggest moments of London Fashion Week will take place simultaneously on a Tate Britain catwalk and in the metaverse . The fluid silhouettes and painterly colors of the Roksanda brand, whose sophisticated dresses have a loyal following among an art world and red carpet clientele, do not fit with the Metaverse, where the aesthetic is led by games and until now tends to the metallic cyborgs and the animal fantasy.
In a tie-up that reflects how seriously the fashion world is taking the Metaverse, designer Roksanda Ilincic has teamed up with the Digital Fashion Institute to create an NFT dress that will go on sale in a range of formats that They range from £25 for one of the 500 3D renders , up to £5,000 for one of the 3D animations with software files that will allow an avatar to wear the design.
digital clothing in the metaverse
For me, the beauty of the Metaverse is that anything is possible. A dress that changes color, or disappears and reappears: if you can imagine it, you can do it.
Roksanda Ilincic, designer.
He believes that resistance to the Metaverse is probably futile. “I look at my daughter and see that digital is clearly where her generation is headed. The Metaverse is a bit like what happened when e-commerce started and the luxury industry didn't want anything to do with it, and look how it ended ," says Ilincic.
However, the designer admits she was surprised by the complexity of producing the digital version, which will be featured in her Tate gallery exhibition. She "thought it would be enough to press a button to do what you want, but it's much more complicated" and she adds that she hopes fashion can "infiltrate" the Metaverse.
digital clothing collection
Fashion has a lot to offer. It not only brings glamour, but also a history of design and creativity that can enrich the digital environment. I hope that the Metaverse becomes a place where many different generations and groups and people can find beauty.
Roksanda Ilincic, designer.
A week of 86 live shows seems like good news to most attendees, but the British Fashion Council's Caroline Rush is more excited about the 61 events remaining digital, believing a hybrid model is what best suited to a modern industry.