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BySympany x Kuyichi Jeans with Upcycled Textiles

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BySympany Upcycling by Sympany

Sympany is a textile recycling social enterprise from The Netherlands, it collects and re-purposes used clothing in order to fund charitable projects. The gathered second-hand clothes are being sold a.o. in African countries. (specifically to Zambia, Malawi, DR Congo and Angola) The used clothes are also being recycled into cleaning cloths and insulation material and they are upcycled into ‘new fabrics’ as well.

The launch at Magazijn in Amsterdam, behind the sewing machine: Vita Stasiukynaite, student at the fashion dept at the Rietveld Academy.
Embroidery-artist Victoria Villasana’s embelishment of the black and white photography by JW Kaldenbach. imagecredits: mimi berlin blogger team
Invite for the launch. imagecredits: bysympany.nl
The Jeans

BySympany

BySympany is a new initiative in which funds are generated by collaborating with (sustainable) fashion brands. The collab with Dutch jeanslabel Kyuchi is the first in line: ‘By Sympany By Kuyichi created jeans with upcycled rags. (20% of the jeans consist of recovered fibres)
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TRINHBECX Show at the Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week

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TRINHBECX

Dutch fashion designduo TRINHBECX showed the ‘Talking Trash Show’ last friday. It’s the newest collection for the TB19 season. The location was apropriate; Afvalpunt Oost (That’s the name of the place were you can dump your garbage in Amsterdam)

In collaboration with Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week, TRINHBECX had the opportunity to work with companies that offer a sustainable alternatives to existing materials such as leather and cotton. Materials like viscose developed from coffee grounds, leather created from plant cells, buttons that are made from fruit waste, in combination with textile surpluses.

Trinhbecx Talking Trash Show TB19
Trinhbecx Talking Trash Show TB19
Trinhbecx Talking Trash Show TB19
Trinhbecx TB19 Group portrait

(imagecredits: Mimi Berlin Blogger Team)

As always, TRINHBECX showed well proportioned garments, including their signature bold detailing, we especially fancied the strong silhouettes. This collection can be seen as “a playful patch-work-story in a miss-match of materials with graphic lines and quirky (de)constructions.” Continue reading →

SoGoodToWear Cashmere

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SoGoodToWear Cashmere

SoGoodToWear (SGTW) is a new Dutch cashmere brand. Not your average brand, no! SGTW is a sustainable fashion label which owns a goat herd in the higher regions of Nepal The goats provide for the high quality cashmere used by SGTW. The knitted collections are designed in the Netherlands by Mark van Vorstenbos, and are made by cashmere knitters in a fair-trade knitting factory in Nepal. Maybe needless to mention (but we will anyway) SoGoodToWear is a fair-trade brand which uses innovative and ethical ways to breed and herd their goats without causing any environmental damage.

So Good To Wear Scarf with ‘Cappucino’ the goat illustration. Photography by Barrie Hullegie
So Good To Wear Webshop. Styling by Mimi Berlin. Photography by JW Kaldenbach
So Good To Wear Webshop. Styling by Mimi Berlin. Photography by JW Kaldenbach

The imported goats get their own scarf, with a portrait illustrated by Machteld Schouten. Above the first one; it’s ‘Cappucino’ the goat. The second goat, ‘Mr Gaga’, also has been portrayed but that’s still a secret…… We, at Mimi Berlin, took care of the styling for the webshop, photography was done by JW Kaldenbach. Ofcourse it’s ‘styling light‘ but we just want to show all the work we do at MB-Modebüro.
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Daniel Lismore: Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken @SCAD FASH

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Daniel Lismore: Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken @SCAD FASH

Daniel Lismore: Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken @SCAD FASH
Photo by Dan Ellyot

“ATLANTA —SCAD FASH, the Savannah College of Art and Design’s museum celebrating fashion and film, presents “Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken” — the first U.S. exhibition featuring the work of artist, stylist and designer Daniel Lismore . Continue reading →

Mail from Ulrike: The Poor Man’s Bias Cut & Sew

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Mail from Ulrike. To be more precise: snail mail from Ulrike Träge. Since Mimi Berlin has no money/no cent/no dime/nada/noppes, our dear Ulrike showed us the crisis sewing pattern technique for making new clothes during hard times. A couple of years ago she invented a re-cycling technique called; The Poor Man’s Bias Cut & Sew. Only applicable when all your clothes are totally worn out, or if you gained or lost tons of weight! Otherwise the best advice is of course to not cut up your clothes so you can save up energy for other useful things: Like to make money by selling homegrown young plants or your old magazines.

for Mimi Berlin
Von Ulrike, in an enveloppe, made of paper
Ulrike’s The Poor Man’s Bias Cut & Sew is based on crisis pattern making examples from the 1930s
Ulrike’s The Poor Man’s Bias Cut & Sew is based on crisis pattern making examples from the 1930s
Ulrike’s The Poor Man’s Bias Cut & Sew is based on crisis pattern making examples from the 1930s
Ulrike’s The Poor Man’s Bias Cut & Sew is based on crisis pattern making examples from the 1930s
Ulrike’s The Poor Man’s Bias Cut & Sew is based on crisis pattern making examples from the 1930s

Anyway, for us the time has come. We are going to have to use The Poor Man’s Bias Cut & Sew technique on all of our Dries van Noten clothes. NO, not The van Noten’s! we hear you scream. Yes, we have to, they are made from the most durable quality of fabric we own, we answer, whispering with a trembling voice, to your question. Keep you posted! xoxo Mimi