Next week Thursday the Grass Routes Foundation presents it's projects and vision in the SelfHub in Berlin. Pamoyo will be there with a short performance. Be there, and change the world with style!

 Please note that the event has been moved to the 15th of May!

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Today I had contact with the Creative Commons office and as far as they know we are the first fashion label under a Creative Commons license. The coming days we will publish patterns and designs online and in the future make it possible to share your own creations and patterns as well. Visitors of the Pamoyo website can use these patterns for making their own styles.

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

Creative Commons offers an alternative to strict, often ineffective copyright rules. Instead of keeping your rights to yourfself, the use of open source for creative production makes that people can share and build on each other. As with the music on this website, shared with us by Court Lajoie

On tuesday 29th of April 13.30 GMT+1 Pamoyo will be on the European cultural TV station ARTE during an item on Eco Fashion in Berlin on the Lifestyle Magazine Program Chic . The other labels in the item are Slowmo and Magdalena Schaffrin. The program will be online until one week after broadcasting. Check it out!

Cecilia Palmer is a young, Swedish woman living in Berlin. She studied courses in sustainable engineering and arts in Sweden and France, gathered environmental practice through organic gardening and worked for a few NGO's as creative director.

Cecilia, why did you start Pamoyo?

“Some say design is only about surface. I say design is about everything you express. Pamoyo is designed with depth, with an urgency. It’s not just clothes, it’s about styling a better world. I wanted to create an experimental, creative label that combines social values, fair production, and respect for the environment with an artistic drive. For me Pamoyo is a way to find out ways to be both creative and sustainable, and for small designers that’s not all that easy. It’s a lot of pioneering, a creative research.”

What inspires you?

“I’m inspired by things going out of line, by irregularities, sticking out, imperfection. I like playing with culture, mixing and remixing styles cross borders of subcultures and styles. With Pamoyo we sample as with music. Style elements from vintage clothing are put in a complete other context. A men’s suit can end up in a cool summer dress you wear on the beach. In the future we want to implement that concept on a larger scale, in a way that it’s economically sustainable.”

What’s your vision with Pamoyo?

”I want to involve a lot of people to give their creative input, Pamoyo is going to be a laboratory for innovative ideas and sustainable production method. On a rather small scale we try out new design and production concepts.”

Can you give examples?

”We make the designs and patterns of our clothing Open Source. We don’t make designs to protect them, but to spread. The designs and patterns can be found on our website, and anyone can share it and use it. In this way, someone can take an idea or design and build on it. We want to make it possible to build upon each other’s work in such a thing as fashion design, and we’re planning to make a community platform out of that.”

Fashion 2.0?

Yeah, we do this because creativity is something enriching. When you collaborate with others, the chance to develop great things is higher.”

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