{"id":5727,"date":"2016-10-18T00:47:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2016-12-06T20:53:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T19:53:57","slug":"scraps-three-designers-upcycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/scraps-three-designers-upcycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Scraps: Three Designers Inspired by Upcycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since September 23rd, 2016,\u00a0Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse<\/b><\/a>\u2014Cooper Hewitt Design Museum’s<\/b> new Fall show\u2014gathers a well-deserved attention in\u00a0New York. Launched as the center piece of the\u00a0New York Textile Month<\/b><\/a>\u2019s<\/b>\u00a0first edition<\/b>, this exhibition addresses the issue of waste in the fashion and textile industry.\u00a0It presents the sustainable approach of three textile designers: Christina Kim<\/b> from\u00a0dosa inc<\/b><\/a>, Luisa Cevese<\/b>\u00a0from\u00a0Riedizioni<\/b><\/a>, and\u00a0Reiko Sudo<\/b>\u00a0from\u00a0NUNO<\/b><\/a>, respectively from the United States, Italy and Japan. In different ways, these three designers aim to reduce the environmental impact of their production by combining craftsmanship, technology, and upcycling. Christina Kim<\/b> designs\u00a0delicate\u00a0handcrafted clothes\u00a0made of\u00a0fine Indian brocaded cottons called jamdani<\/i> and uses every scrap of it in second and third generations of garments. Luisa Cevese\u00a0<\/b>chose to make accessories in translucent polyurethane that\u00a0incorporates textile waste (selvedges and yarns) collected in high-end textile manufacturers and workshops. And finally Reiko Sudo\u00a0<\/b>has developed an ingenious method to collect\u00a0<\/b>industrial silk waste (called kibiso<\/i> in Japan) and turn it into ready-to-weave fibers for home textiles. Instead of being discarded, these different\u00a0waste materials\u00a0have become sources of\u00a0inspiration and\u00a0opportunities to experiment\u00a0new creative methods.<\/p>\n

Curators Matilda McQuaid<\/b> and\u00a0Susan Brown<\/b>\u00a0have opted for a minimalist and aerial\u00a0scenography that visually connects these three stories\u00a0together and opens a dialogue between them. In the Carnegie Mansion’s wooden period rooms,\u00a0Scraps<\/b><\/a>\u00a0skillfully links tradition to innovation. The display uncovers the making process of each piece, allowing visitors to understand each step from the raw material to the final object.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a Smithsonian Institute fellowship, I spent nearly a year assisting the Textile Department at Cooper Hewitt on the production of this exhibition. I developed\u00a0an\u00a0online accompanying platform called\u00a0Scraps Stories<\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>with the support of the curators and in collaboration with\u00a0the\u00a0Publishing and Communication teams. For the whole duration of the show, you will find there a series of articles about sustainable fashion and textiles, including a green glossary, insightful facts and figures, and a world tour of mending and repair traditions.<\/p>\n

Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse
\n<\/a><\/strong>Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
\n2 E 91st St, New York
\nNY 10128
\nwww.cooperhewitt.org<\/a><\/p>\n

(\u00a9 Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum<\/a>, Smithsonian Institute, Riedizioni, dosa inc, NUNO)<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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