an interview with Natasja Dymphina, owner of Fabula Vestimenta and this blog-site Why Fabula Vestimenta? This is a very broad question. With Fabula Vestimenta I am making a restart. In 2004 I started my own brand: Faerytale Fashion. This brand grew from a hobby and became a small company, but it never really lifted off. In 2008 I put Faerytale Fashion on pause, because I started a study in philosophy at Erasmus Rotterdam University, which I continued in a master at Antwerp University. Now I found that the identity from Faerytale Fashion did no longer suit me, so I changed my brand around, with a fresh name, identity and ideology. What is the main difference between Faerytale Fashion and Fabula Vestimenta? You could say: the name, but that is not true at all!Both names have the same meaning. Still I decided to rename my brand. I have matured, and so…
Month: October 2017
Endurable Designing in Energy-Saving Designing
What does energy-saving designing mean? Family-resemblance in collections My former post was about using and re-using endurable materials, but energy-saving is not only a process that helps the environment or the local economy. It is also an aspect that the couturier has to perform on his or her own designs. I think most couturiers made the same mistakes when they started-out: having the freedom to design whatever they liked, throwing all of their creativity into their new brand. All of this is very well understandable, but is costs an incredible amount of energy on the past of the designer itself. Every single design has to be figured out into patterns, finding the wright fabrics and finding ways to finishing the product off. I certainly made this starters-mistake too, being too enthusiastic about all the ideas in my head that wanted to come out. This starters-mistake had the consequence that I…
Sustainability and Sustainable Fashion
A lot of blogs give attention to the looks of fashion, how to wear fashion and how to combine fashion items with other (fashion)items. When these items fall out of fashion, there are many websites that can tell or show you how to refashion or upcycle these discarded items. When you are not a creative person however, you can make sure these products get re-used elsewhere (through a thrift-shop or donating them to the salvation army) or get recycled in a more industrial way. Off-course we do not want the mountain of garbage to pile up unnecessarily… There is no question on earth that I discourage these creative outbursts of re-fashioning and upcycling! As long as the materials are still good, usable and sturdy, there is no point whatsoever in wasting them. Every step to industrially process these materials (as garbage or as recyclable materials) it will ALWAYS have an…