It seems to be the latest trend in fashion, and on many more fields: re-fashioning and upcycling. The concept of making new items from old, worn-down materials (whether or not in combination with new materials). A whole identity is even build on these concepts: the hipsters, and on a granter scale: gentrification. This re-introduces not only old materials, but also classic craftsmanship into the estranged and overly modernized society, where most things are commercialized into the most cost-efficient course, which also means cheap off-shore labor to manufacture our everyday products. I also follow this “new” trend with my own company – Fabula Vestimenta- , but how “modern” are these ideas actually? In 2013 I visited a exhibition of Jean-Paul Goutier in the Kunsthal, Rotterdam (the Netherlands). There I watched this documentary where J.P. Goutier mentions that at the very start of his carrier (in 1977) he didn’t have the money…