Ridu Marco Favaretto and Chiara Rigoni, two students of Fashion Design University of Venice IUAV, have presented an interesting collection: using couture strings and other strange fabric materials they have created real couture garments.

Marble forms harmonize the body and the whiteness of the shells take out the natural colors of the human nature. Volume and structure live togheter to create an original tribal style couture.

To find out more have a look at Chiara Rigoni & Ridu Marco Favaretto blogs.

And now start to use window rapes-strings and create your own style. Then send photos and video at refashinoso@shicon.com

Be unique in recycling fashion. Thanks guys, july.

Old television sets may not seem an obvious source of material for dressmaking and millinery, but Alison Bailey Smith, who has lived in Australia, Canada, San Francisco and England uses colorful recycled wire from electrical appliances as the basis for much of her work, which includes boxes, jewelry, lampshades, and clothing.

Alison loves to organize workshops to show everyone how to turn old waste wire – mostly from old televisions – into FashionArt and this is amazing!

Now enjoy to do the same joning the “Art for a digital world” contest on Shicon.com
Good luck every one.

Fashion Handibags are a joy, but you want something different from everyone else – without it costing the earth. At Handibags we give you just that, all our Handbags are unique, one-off creations and we make everything from recycled fabrics so it doesn’t cost the Earth!

“The nature of the recycled fabrics that come my way means that every ‘Handibag’ is a one-off, it might be possible to get two bags from a piece of fabric but they are never the same because of the trimmings, linings, handles and so on. I spend a lot of time sourcing unusual fabrics to recycle and reuse, I enjoy the challenge of making the most of the fabrics I find” says the Handibags staff.

To find out more details have a look at Fashion Handibags photos and enjoy to create your own recycle bag! We always wait for your photos, videos and ideas.
Have a creative life,
july.

There’s nothing better than lots of colour splashes on your dress to put you in a good mood!

Fernando Brizio is a talented product designer from Portugal, responsible for some of the most creative recycled art and fashion.
Like this Felt-tip Pens Dress: by meticulously inserting coloured felt-tip pens, nib down, into a white dress fitted with little pockets, the ink is bleeds into the fabric in a sequence of splodges. The idea behind the dress is that the owner slips the pens into the pockets herself just before entering the party or whatever she’s attending and bursting into messy bloom. As you can see the felt tip pens are inserted in the small pockets of the dress. Within an hour – to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. The owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it.
Watch this video by Fernando explaining how it’s done:

Thanks by Erika Cogoni.

Have a look at all the fashion tutorials and then upload your home-made video on Refashinoso tube channel http://www.youtube.com/group/refashinoso

Just open your wardrobe and start to do the same with your friends too. For any questions or if you get some old clothes but you have no idea about how to modify them please email to refashinoso@shicon.com

Then wait for Refashinoso Episode 5 Fashion Tutorial.
See you around

Sorry, this is not mosaic: this is strikingly clever, extremely well done and just plain delightful. This is a clever re-use idea like making sheep using old phones. And have a look at the legs…

They are Jean-Luc Cornec’s telephone sheep from the Museum of Telecommunication in Frankfurt .

This is more than amazing.

Be unique. Create your style with old cloths, needle and thread. Soon the fashion tutorial video.

Looking at this pictures you could now start to create your own style: just open your wardrobe and take from it what you don’t like or you don’t use anymore. Then think at what you need – new dress? new trousers? … – and start to make it by modifying your old clothes. Soon the video Episode 13 where you could see how is simple and cheap to be creative and original in fashion.

See you around!

“Amazing all what you can do with old toys” this is the concept of Studio Lab, Italy. They talk about “Message to wear” that we can re-interpreter in “Wear the recycling message” and here you can see just a few examples of what they do in their lab:

Clich here to find out more about Studio Lab website.

Now just use yours to create your own neckless! Email your pictures, videos and ideas to refashinoso@shicon.com

See you around.

Designersblock is more than a design show, it’s a culture that has grown over 12 years. It has students and graduates together with long established design companies and everyone in between. This year, Designersblock has been an exhibition inside an exhibition. It took place in Earl’s Court, in a pavilion apart, during 100% Design. Among its stands, there was a very strange installation, that looks like a room: the place in which two artistic projects met each other. The two projects are “Invading memories” by Chu YinHua and “Strange•R” by LimWeiLing. Now, they converged in a unique project, then in a unique website too.

It’s not simple to explain the two projects. It’s better to use the words of their founders. “The term Strange•R comes from the word stranger. A Strange•R is an everyday object which once was familiar but now seems strange, having random words deriving from the dreams and experiences of the people in the city applied on them. R is Re-live, Re-born, Re-use, Re-visit, Re-learn, Re-think, Re-create, Rejoice, Relationship… These diverse interpretations will see the transformations of everyday objects into something that can be reapplied into our daily life in a renewed way. At the same time they assume characters that tell of the stories of our city”. We can say the essence of a Strange•R is an “Invading memory”.

People had an active role in the project: they could be “Object Translators”. Their task was to give life to an abandon object. Re-think it. Re-invent it. In a way that allow to see the strangely familiar and the familiarly strange. Results are surprising. And if we do catch hold of the surprising and wonderful in the everyday, let’s think about the limits of what is possible and peraphs you may come face to face with a moment of revelation.

We met Sarah Baulch in Sunday, in a fascinating instant suck in Brick Lane under the Old Truman Brewery. Who is Sarah? She is the stylist and the creative mind of ReVampt.

ReVampt is a small company intent on designing and producing fabulous products which are well made, quirky and unique. The unused off cuts of the fashion and textile industry inspire Sarah to create gorgeous retro pieces for home and people.

She takes vintage & modern materials, samples, extras, inspirational purchases and other unused accessories directly from the fabrics and makes it into something new: handbags, cushions, home wares, quilts with several techniques, patchwork very often.

ReVampt receive vintage fabric and accessories from retired dress-makers and former makers who no longer have the time or inclination to produce work themselves. Everything is handmade in the UK by individuals or small businesses. ReVampt combines a 21st century eco friendly approach with traditional skills and crafts. The surprising result is beautiful well crafted pieces from a sustainable and eco friendly source.

ReVampt is based in London, 52 Grafton road. In 2008 the company was finalist in Start-up Stars, a competition sponsored by HBC .