Slowly I’m watching D.I.Y transforming it’s position in fashion, in a slightly similar way as good home cooking isn’t considered much less than a restaurant meal. Fashion Reloaded and other D.I.Y design events aren’t unlike private run bistros or dinner-at-home clubs. So maybe Jamie Oliver never showed up at your house, now icon of icons Karl Lagerfeld has designed an outfit for burda style magazine, meaning – patterns to make it yourself. The patterns can also be downloaded from Burda Style for 5 dollars each. Maison Martin Margiela once released an unfinished dress as an open, downloadable pattern and a call to designers to finish the work. But now seeing Karl in the Burda mag, I realize the marriage between D.I.Y and high end is going mainstream.

Variation on the unfinished Margiela dress by Claudia Rosa Lukas

This one dates back to last summer – together with Andrea Goetzke of s.p.a.r.k FM, and Otto von Busch in interview, we did a radio show discussing fashion, brand and identity. Listen to it on Soundcloud here.

Last June, Pamoyo was one of the 8 designers who gathered in Ljubljana to create the first Openwear collection.

http://openwear.org

Bonjour!

My name is Roos and I am the new intern here at Pamoyo! I will be working with Cecilia until the end of January. I am a textile engineering student from Enschede, Holland.

These coming months I will be assisting Cecilia with a lot of things while trying to learn as much as possible. Also I am going to enjoy this fabulous city Berlin together with my girlfriend and my baby cat Herr Karl Heinz

Last year I made a small collection for my study. This is what it looks like (left):

Do you have old clothes that they are nice, but you don’t use anymore? I bet you have!

If you don’t feel like just giving them away or throwing them (I hope you don’t do that),  rescue them from meaningless waste and suffocation by taking them out of the closet and bringing them to the Fashion Reloaded session on 4th of July 2009.

Fashion Reloaded is all about swapping your old, nice clothes with the old, nice clothes of other people, who also have an overloaded closet. Put in a dress, take out a skirt. Put in the old, take out a new. It’s simple like that.

But Fashion Reloaded is also about restyling. You love this skirt, because it fits so nicely on you, but its style is boring. What a sustainably thinking person would do? Restyle of course! And if you don’t know how to do it, there will be professional fashion designers there for you to help you in refreshing the style of the clothes you no longer use and fashion workshops, for example screen printing, that will teach you how to make and play with clothes.

Swap and Restyle my friends. And in an evening your garderobe gets a new colour and sense.  A new dimension, a new shape. Let the Fashion Reloaded breeze to bring oxygen and a cool aura in your style. If you are not convinced yet to join us in this creative, stylish and amusing swapping and restyling party…yes it’s a party with music and joy…let us share some words with you about Fashion Reloaded philosophy.

By swapping and restyling you reduce waste and you give a second chance to clothes to get a life. This simply means that there is less need for purchasing new clothes and consequently you contribute in the ecological balance, since clothing industry is a great polluter. I hope you know that already. In parallele, you save money! So, you can deal better with the economical crisis and its consequences. But also, beyond the environmental and economical aspect, by restyling you get an extra, highly important for your personal dimension tip. The creation, which amuses your soul and smoothes your spirit. Being sustainable, by having a low cost and creative, stylish life isn’t convincing enough?

I guess it is. So, this Saturday, 4th of July, from 12 to 19 pm, in Karl-Marx Strasse 97-99 Berlin Neukölln, Fashion Reloaded will be on, as part of the “TheKey.To ” international trade fair for sustainable fashion (see post below). See you and your clothes there!