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IKIGAI

iki - leven, levend - en kai - een effect, resultaat, waarde. Met andere woorden: wat maakt jouw leven de moeite waard?

Het gaat dus niet per se om grote, wereldveranderende en meeslepende dingen.

Het woord ikigai vindt zijn oorsprong in Okinawa, een Japanse eilandengroep zo’n duizend kilometer ten zuiden van Tokyo. In deze blue zone worden mensen niet alleen heel oud, ze blijven ook gezond. Daar ligt een aantal leefregels aan ten grondslag. Zo bewegen Okinawanen relatief veel. 

Voor mij zijn mijn vriendschappen ontzettend belangrijk. Daarnaast wil ik graag iets goed bijdragen aan de wereld. Daarom gebruik ik flawed denim en oude jeans van mensen die mij dierbaar zijn om voor hen een nieuw product te creëren. Dit product moet comfortabel zijn zodat er veel in bewogen kan worden.

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Sashiko technique 

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Triarchy Atelier is a fashion line owned by two brothers and a sister who create new denim designs made from vintage stock sourced from their base in Los Angeles. Since the launch of the brand, over 1,000,000 gallons of water have been saved by their upcycled denim productions. 

I like their website since its very transparant and shows who they work with and what kind of materials they use. 

https://triarchy.com/pages/about

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The brand reformation does something similar as I want to do. 

All their garments are made from super sustainable materials, rescued deadstock fabrics and repurposed vintage clothing. 

What I really like is that they show on their website how much water/waste/ energy has been saved because you bought this product. ( instead of a ‘ normal’ produced product)

https://www.thereformation.com/pages/oh-hi

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Inspiration from the Boro technique. Maybe use this to create a coat out of the flawed denim I will receive + clothing I will get from others. 

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https://www.modemuze.nl/blog/boro-repareren-op-z%E2%80%99n-japansBoro: 

The term is derived from Japanese boroboro, meaning something tattered or repaired. Before the 20th  century, hemp was much more available than cotton and woven together for warmth.  Boro was the means of repair, creating, and using up waste. Clothes would be stitched back together throughout generations, slowly evolving the garments over time. It’s believed the practise extends from a Japanese worldview called Wabi-Sabi,  which is centred on the acceptance of imperfection –because a fixed thing really is a beautiful thing.

Is je jas stuk, dan kun je overwegen hem te laten repareren. Het liefst op zo’n manier dat je niet meer kunt zien dat er ooit een gat in heeft gezeten. Zo doen we dat in het Westen. In Japan gaat men van oudsher anders om met reparaties: daar mogen reparaties gezien worden. Een zichtbare reparatie illustreert de tijd en energie die de gebruiker heeft geïnvesteerd in het object. Het maakt een object uniek en waardevol.

Making a feature of garment repairs is an alternative to the art of invisible mending. Taking the time to create something really unique is a beautiful way of connecting with a garment or textile, 

-Zichtbare vergankelijkheid

-imperfectie, tijdelijkheid en incompleetheid.

https://sugru.com/blog/fashion-is-broken-but-clothes-are-meant-to-be-fixed-the-art-of-repair.html

https://www.modemuze.nl/blog/boro-repareren-op-z%E2%80%99n-japans

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inspiration for the design of my coat. 

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Made a coat and added a background

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Working method

1. Photograph the leftover/waste material I’m going to use + do the fabric tests and insert it into Clo

2. Choose which garments I’m going to repair ( Who and why?)

3. Photograph the garments + persons + measure them

4. Add measurements on avatar 

5. Recreate the garments in Clo ( measure them and make the patterns)

6. Show different options on how to repair/ change the garment and let the person choose

7. Deconstruct the garment in real life and repair it.

8. Photograph the person in the new garment 

IMPORTANT: DECIDE ON THE MAIN THEME. WHY DID I CHOOSE THOSE PERSONS/ WHAT MAKES IT PERSONAL. 

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Im gonna use flawed denim to repair clothing. The concept of the master student of whom I get the denim from is inspired by the Japanese Kintsugi. Therefore I looked up some Japanese streetwear. 

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CHANGE OF PLANS

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Attempts to make the pants more realistic + making a knot. Finally succeeded in wrapping the pants around the body in the same way as you would do in real life. 

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Ornella: 

“As the world is turning into one big pile of waste, we humans, the creators of that waste continue to produce more and more. People constantly create new materials to design, only from an aesthetic perspective.  

We create new products every season and sometimes we don’t even know why create them.You can create impressive or simple designs, either way by creating them you are a contributor of a monster created by the human kind.

With our concept we present our feelings of the fashion world. Our concept shows our feeling towards the fashion industry. We can design simple designs but it feels like we are feeding the monster even more. Even with a simple design, we create this ugly monster who could possible destroy us one day.

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I do not want to make the’ perfect pants’ or yet another pretty design. There is already more than enough. I’d rather make others aware of the current problems we are having in the fashion industry. But how. I thought of making a monster out of the wrapping pants I made in the beginning. By adding more layers on it and give at a bigger shape. This would than maybe ‘shock’ people. The monster would be made out of leftover/ waste materials. My end product could than be the zero waste wrapping pants to show that there are ways to work with left over material and creating something useful with it instead of letting it become a monster. 

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“Who cares if the pants are ugly? The message is one of beauty.” They’ve both jumped headfirst into a culture because they’ve found something within it to respect and admire. What they’ve done, recasting themselves as something they may not inherently be, is as much about finding a place of acceptance for themselves as it is about spreading their transformative message. By elevating those messages they’re showing us the beauty we’ve missed.

“It’s not that they’re attempting to convince us that construction is clean and smooth and pristine, traditionally beautiful. Instead they’re showing us that it’s the work and dirt and danger that makes it beautiful. It is through those struggles that construction workers build our worlds. And it is in that work that they change the taste of water.“

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