Six a magazine

Myths and Symbols -reclaimed fabric skirts
designed to tell a story,
made in USA by djb
photo from "Species on the Verge & Other Works w/POV

& from across the sea - courtesy of SIX magazine, comes this great video on ethical fashion and London Fashion Week. Hear and see what new design means to several emerging (ethical) designers.

Revival Friday

This in from the Ethical Fashion Forum. Sanyukta Shrestha has a fresh website and a culturally diverse design aesthetique.

This could be your recipe if your taste has been jaded by overtly marketable reruns that look like they are trying way too hard thus losing their spontaneity and spice.

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The "too much becomes boring" onslaught of the fast fashion, designer rotation machine with all its hyper redux, lacks heart, & soul. Sustainable designers are bringing back real style for the discriminating palate. This is a good thing. Go tell aunt martha..

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On that note please also consider the energy of thought, the power of being in the moment and the power of not wearing anothers grief. Sweatshop made, fast fashion is saturated with the energy of pain and that is not good for anyones health, environment or character.

FashionRip Project

I have added a link -see it on the right side of the page. This is where the updates will be as the FashionRip Installation Project builds. I am really happy to be able to showcase some of the incredible local talent that is or will be involved as momentum grows. Please drop by and leave a comment, ask a question or get involved. Thank you, deborah

the amazing DISconnect

I have been busy getting another degree determined to figure out what created the state of the state aka how can so many good, intelligent and well meaning people function and maintain a set of arbitrary rules and relationships based on traditions that have been so full of dogma and dung that they should have collapsed ages ago?

We all know the king has no clothes and appears to be protected only by the national myths. This is the same rhetoric underlying the business as usual, turn a lemon into lemonade sit com of promo voice and the Home Shopping Network suggesting lightweight ponchos for the global warming trend. Really! this from an an article in the Seattle Times (12/2/07) by M.Barbaro as "weird weather has big effect on business." Does this not suggest a change in the why and what of business, a wake up to consumer madness? .....Pshaw darlin' it's now to win as the maddest hatter of all! Ta ra ta ra.....for:

true to the business mantra, several fashion industry leaders are hiring climatologists in order to make fast fashion suitable for the new era. How long before we point to the king and say "hey dude you're up for a bad case of melanoma!" and understand the cancer in us is the cancer we have become in the push for market dominations reliant on resource abuses. Well I see the duh in the TA DA! and won't be keeping quiet.