Giovanni Scafuro is an italian artist who began to work in artisans shops where he learned and applied the art of these amazing manual trades to create complementary furnishings.

Daily use objects change image! He says “this is a change of route in object’s life, thanks to recycle and reuse concept”. His true love goes to forks and so he’ve created jewels and house furnishing reusing them.

Objects and materials are for Giovanni an inexhautible source of inspiration and life interpretation: his manufactoring is in continuous metamorphosis, indeed… in progress!

And now Have a look at Giovanni Scafuro’s website

What is that? A beach ball? Or a lamp? We met Toby Sanders at his show at Tent London and The Dock, during Londons Design Fare. Toby  is Design Director of TOBYhouse, a creative interiors studio founded by himself and based in London. It develops its own range of Home Accessories, as well as offering interiors consultancies in retail, domestic, exhibitions and environmental design. We was very surprised. ‘Cause that was both a ball and a lamp. BEACH BALL LAMPSHADE is a 40cm diameter ball lamp created by Toby. It’s a real PVC Beach Ball that has been transformed, by hand, using a process he has pioneered.

The outside has the surface of an actual inflated beach ball, even the ‘blowhole’ is visible. Yet It has a ‘rock hard’ inner shell that holds it inflated, and allows us to turn it into a really playful lampshade. Each piece is hand made to order with a dispatch time of 3-4 weeks.

The outer skin is made of a real PVC beach ball. Toby had developed a process to spread a thin polyurethane shell on the inner surface of beach balls. The inner surface has a ‘blackout’ white spray finish so it is totally opaque. He applies the edge trim, and applies a made to measure lamp shade holder.

This lamp shade is made with the guidance of the British Lighting Association and adheres to their best practice guidelines. It’s easy to fit, you will not require an electrician, or particular expertise. It is fitted in the same way as any normal paper lamp shade.

Before founding TOBYhouse, Toby has directed major international retail interiors projects for global brands such as Giorgio Armani, Habitat and Mandarina Duck as well as private domestic commissions and environmental design projects. He loves the way creativity can connect different areas of design, and provide serious responses to real problems.

Discover all the fantastic design ideas of Toby in his website. You can also buy his products online!

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.

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.

Have a look at this simple and great idea by Queenly Things to recycle your old clothes. You just need pieces of fabric materials, bottoms and thread to create your own garden:

Clich here to find out more about queenlythings website.

Now just open your wardrobe and start to do the same with your friends too. Email your pictures, videos and ideas to refashinoso@shicon.com

See you around

Thomas Steffens from Germany showed us his amazing handmade studio from 100% recycled materials and innovate product design ideas.

This is exactly what we trust and invest in. If you have realized your own studio, house, office, garage … too email us, send the pictures and videos and we’ll share it all over.
For more information about Thomas goes to Thomas Steffens Atelier.