contessanally: New York: Cooper Hewitt –Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse

New York: Cooper Hewitt –Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse. Offering creative, alternative approaches to confronting textile waste, Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse exhibition on at Cooper Hewitt until April 16, presents the work of three designers who put sustainability at the heart of the design process: Luisa Cevese, founder of Riedzioni in Milan; Christina Kim, founder of dosa, inc., in Los Angeles; and Reiko Sudo, managing director at Nuno in Tokyo. Each designer’s practice involves innovative and sophisticated reuse of textile materials and resources, while engaging in preservation of local craft traditions. And, they find it both aesthetically and financially worthwhile to recycle while striving to sustain traditional textile practices and skills in a modern world. The exhibition explores key facets of sustainability, such as the efficient use of materials and resources, the preservation of local craft traditions and the integration of new technologies in the recycling process.

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Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse

Christina Kim

Christina Kim, founder of the Los Angeles-based fashion brand dosa inc. has deep respect for India’s hand weavers, which inspired her to develop a design process for using up scraps over several fashion seasons.

Choga and slip - dosa inc. – 2003

hand-spun, hand-woven brocaded cotton - jamdani saris, cut and sewn

1st generation garment: rabary jacket - dosa inc.– 2003

hand-spun, hand-woven brocaded cotton jamdani scraps, cut and sewn

Christina Kim

2nd generation garment: Eungie skirt – dosa inc. – 2007

hand-spun, hand-woven brocaded cotton jamdani scraps, pieced, reverse-appliqued, embroidered, cut and sewn

Christina Kim

2nd generation garment: Eungie skirt – dosa inc. – 2007

hand-spun, hand-woven brocaded cotton jamdani scraps, pieced, reverse-appliqued, embroidered, cut and sewn

photograph courtesy Cooper Hewitt

Christina Kim

Infographic Panel, Reinvesting in Handwork: Jamdani - 2015

Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse

Luisa Cevese

Luisa Cevese, founder of Riedzioni in Milan is attracted to the beautiful silk selvedges that are castoffs from industrial silk manufacturing and turns them into coveted fashion accessories.

Bag Small Shaving - Luisa Cevese Riedizioni - 2012

gilded washi paper, silk, polyurethane.

Bag, Little Box - Luisa Cevese Riedizioni - 2014, textile since 1997 polyurethane embedded with polyester and polyamide metallic threads

Metallic Thread Waste – The Lurex Company Limited

Metallic brocaded silks Selvedges - manufactured by Hosoo Co. Ltd.

Luisa Cevese

Gilded Washi Wefts - Hosoo Company Ltd - 2015

gilded washi paper

Placemat - Luisa Cevese Riedizioni - textile since 2012

gilded washi paper, polyurethane

Luisa Cevese

Textile Panel - Luisa Cevese Riedizioni - since 2009

Multicolor Taj - scraps of second-hand saris (mixed fibers), polyurethane

photograph courtesy Cooper Hewitt

Luisa Cevese

Infographic Panel, Reimagining Industrial Waste: Scraps + Polyurethane

Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse

Reiko Sudo

Reiko Sudo’s, managing director at Nuno in Tokyo, deep exploration of traditional silk production in Japan led to transforming silk waste into textiles with greater creative relevance.

Bundle of ogarami choshi – Nuno Corportation – 2016

Silk

Ogarami choshi sheets - Nuno Corportation – 2016

Silk

Reiko Sudo

Assorted yarns and fabrics

Kibiso Yarns

Kibiso Stripe – 2008 - Futsu Crisscross -2008 Suzushi Stripe - 2009

Nuno Corportation and Tsuruoka Fabric Industry Cooperative

Kibiso is the coarse layer of silk cocoon, which is normally removed to expose the fine silk filament below. Sudo has been working with the Japanese silk industry to upcycle this undervalued material into a fiber suitable for luxury goods.