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At Berlin Fashion Week, H6 Collective’s On the Cover of… turned fashion into a live, interactive process. Visitors contributed to a transforming coat and witnessed a final performance – the resulting image became The Lissome’s cover of the night.
Reeme Idris in conversation with Natalia Corre on ‘Growing Independent Fashion Brands,’ a book by beloved podcast series and brand consultancy, Advance Copy.
OYUNA embarks on a mission of cultural and environmental stewardship, weaving together the threads of tradition and modernity to safeguard Mongolian nomadic heritage through sustainable cashmere practices.
For our Love Ethic edition, we visited the medicinal herb garden of Dr. Hauschka at the foot of the Swabian Jura and captured our impressions from this magical encounter.
Fashion researcher Ania Zoltkowski explores how embracing an ethic of love in the realm of fashion and textiles can serve as a powerful force of societal and cultural change, manifesting in craftsmanship, community bonds and connections to place.
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At Berlin Fashion Week, H6 Collective’s On the Cover of… turned fashion into a live, interactive process. Visitors contributed to a transforming coat and witnessed a final performance – the resulting image became The Lissome’s cover of the night.
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Reeme Idris in conversation with Natalia Corre on ‘Growing Independent Fashion Brands,’ a book by beloved podcast series and brand consultancy, Advance Copy.
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Vuscichè charts a course of avant-garde sustainability, breathing new life into ancient Abruzzese textiles through innovative dyeing methods and couturesque designs, crafting a narrative of heritage preservation and refined elegance.
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As Yangkehan’s poetic patterns and contemporary silhouettes revive tales from Chinese history and mythology, the brand’s commitment to social sustainability shows respect for her team of craftsmen, embodying the ethos that it takes a village to build a brand, the slow way.
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OYUNA embarks on a mission of cultural and environmental stewardship, weaving together the threads of tradition and modernity to safeguard Mongolian nomadic heritage through sustainable cashmere practices.
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For our Love Ethic edition, we visited the medicinal herb garden of Dr. Hauschka at the foot of the Swabian Jura and captured our impressions from this magical encounter.
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Ceremonies – watch our latest issue come to life in this short film by Jack Johnstone.
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Fashion researcher Ania Zoltkowski explores how embracing an ethic of love in the realm of fashion and textiles can serve as a powerful force of societal and cultural change, manifesting in craftsmanship, community bonds and connections to place.
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In times of polarization, division and disorientation: What would a world look like in which an ethic of love is lived?
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The prize grants one successful applicant to take part in the 6-day travel experience and learn from Indigenous textile artists and master artisans in Vietnam.
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Meet Sydney-based poet Stacey Cotter Manière whose story is a testament to the beauty of embracing the present moment and finding solace in the art of poetry.
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Whether eroded or renewed, material or immaterial, reversed or inversed, Marseille-based visual artist Flore Saunois provokes a shift of gaze and a change of perspective in terms of time and matter.
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TextileSeekers curates craft experiences that focus on Indigenous textile practices while highlighting the value of provenance.
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The Lissome’s editor-in-chief, Dörte de Jesus, addresses the importance of responsible storytelling in fashion media, and the shifts in our culture that it can create.
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Mélissa Wago-Lala and Chantal Dubreuil Beaur meet in their family home in Beaugency to create together. From gathering plants to dyeing fabrics, theirs is a story of the transmission of know-how and life skills.
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As a consequence of accelerated climate change, species have been forced to create new forms of survival methods to adapt to extreme habitats. Alliances with other life forms have emerged, and new interspecific relationships are appearing, such as those of Leafy Seadragon.
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Everyone is welcome to join The Gardening Drawing Club, it is free for all. The only tools participants are required to bring are their hands and hearts.
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Change is Constant (Be Like Water) explores the fluidity of gender and the use of fashion design as a tool to express the plural and always evolving approaches to gender that exist outside of the restricting binary.
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Today’s global youths are at the forefront of activism, changing and shaping the political landscapes of their respective countries. As the pressure to initiate real change rapidly mounts, they share raw and unfiltered truths, vigorously paving a new path for humanity’s future.
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The flower arrangements of this story were made with seasonal and local flowers and mushrooms – to emphasize and bring attention to the beauty of our local environments.
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With her international non-profit organization Local Futures, Helena Norberg-Hodge is dedicated to renewing ecological and social wellbeing by strengthening communities and local economies worldwide.
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A tender exchange of thoughts on the sustainability of scents between sensually gifted changemakers. As one approaches scent through acoustical empathy, another uncovers a language of smell. A regenerative perfume, in essence, seems to be a way to reconnect directly with our instincts and a wild encouragement of natural healing powers by way of the nose.
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Solidago tells the tale of Edith, a young woman, who was sent to an all-female rural community in late 1960s Britain to secretly give birth to her premarital child. We talk with the film’s costume designer, Sophie Daniel, about how she consciously created the film’s wardrobe and the future for sustainably-minded costume productions.
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“With the seeds of this knowledge, the designers of tomorrow have the potential to create the paradigm shift we need for a creative, meaningful fashion culture on a thriving planet.” – Deborah Barker, Fibreshed
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“Are you here to stay” emphasizes the human impact on ecosystems and individual living things in a contemporary culture of consumption.
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By moving into action within a community of kindred spirits, we experience that we can create change when we work together.
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We are delighted to present you our first product collaboration that we designed together with the Swiss traceable leather brand MARAI.
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Leather is a material that is both ancient and beloved but in today’s world, it is also stricken with controversy and linked to environmental hazards and animal welfare violations. We look at what a responsible leather production entails.
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Simone Weil (1909 Paris – 1943 Ashford) was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. This story of visual poetry is loosely inspired by her compilation of aphorisms, “La pesanteur et la grâce”, a collection of her handwritten notes, published by a close friend shortly after her sudden death in 1943.
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