Fashion Futuring: O.W.L. & Social Design
Dutch Design Week 2024 is here!
As a cultural entrepreneur and with over twenty years of experience as an educator, through Viviana M. Calderón de la B. practice we commission young artists and designers to develop stories written, directed and produced for development.
Ocean Wearable Leg-wing (O. W. L.) is Viviana M. Calderón de la Barca newest Fashion Futuring short production that proposes a scenario where custom manufacturing apparel accessories are only made with natural beads, and in smaller batches when customers need them. The combination of short production cycles and high demand ensures that every wearable created will find a buyer.
Since the global apparel industry is a significant yet overlooked source of (nano) plastic leakage, O. W. L. proposes fashion forecasting to offer a values-driven and sustainability-oriented alternative to fashion futures practices and eliminate the use of plastic. Plastic pollution is a global environmental threat with potentially irreversible impacts on aquatic life, ecosystems, and human health. Natural materials (including alginate biopolymer) is one solution that can compete with synthetic conventional apparel materials. Natural materials can be employed by manufacturers to put it into prototype and produce fashion accessories responsibly.
Come and see what we have created together.
Where: at Demo Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week on: Saturday, 19 October to Sunday, 27 October 11:00 - 18:00
??18 Septemberplein 17, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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