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!

While you are browsing around Berlin, one of the most common things that you can see is walls with graffitis. Professional or amateur, beautiful or ugly, artistic or just splashes on the wall, meaningful or not. They are there, standing in front of your eyes, provoking your thoughts, showing to you that they exist and you can’t ignore them.

You shouldn’t ignore them, anyway. They are part of this city’s popular culture . They are formed by Berlin’s culture and the same time they form it.

And yes, I will agree with the british guys who took that image at left in Berlin (http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/aharfield/gallery/berlin/) that Berliners love graffiti. And how could be possible not to, after experiencing the fascistic, cold, grey Wall that cut this wonderful place in two pieces? 

Check…if you like…the video about graffiti world in Kreuzberg, Berlin in the link http://www.mindfood.com/at-graffiti-art-berlin-germany-walls-streets-culture.seo 

A "Brick Wall", a "Wired Wall",

a "Graffiti Wall" is better. 

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