Vérabuccia ® was born from the idea of the designer and entrepreneur Francesca Nori, an intuition had in 2017, following the observation of some waste vegetable peels including that of pineapple, a by-product that originates from consumption and generates disposal problems for industries and the environment.
The annual production of pineapple for the food industry…
Founded in 2015 in Amsterdam, BYBORRE is a textile innovation studio that has recently launched its own collection of fabrics, Textiles™. The studio, together with a group of knitters, designers, developers and yarn speciliasts is building an integrated ecosystem that offers transparency, reliability and freedom in textile creation. We have already talked about BYBORRE last year…
This article was written for Salone del Mobile.Milano and previously published on salonemilano.it digital platform
In 2018, after two master's degree in the field of fashion, to be more specific, in knitwear design, and international and non-international experiences, in Como, Shanghai and Antwerp, Gilles Werbrouck founded the homonymous studio in Brussels. The goal of his production is to keep the focus on…
Italtex was founded in 1946 as a manufacturer of silk fabrics for women's clothing. Since 2003, the third new generation has joined the company and production is carried out entirely in Italy in the ten thousand square meters plant, in the province of Como. Today Italtex produces about three million meters of fabric a year…
Graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2018, South Korean fashion designer Sun Woo Chang has unveiled her In Between collection, which explores clothes as "portable homes" that can offer the wearer a refuge from reality. Across the 13 looks of the collection, ring-shaped details extend from otherwise minimal silhouettes encircling shirt sleeves, trouser legs…
KÖN underwear doesn’t exclude anyone. This is a gender neutral brand for everybody - whoever you define yourself as. The fashion industry can be seen as very excluding in different kinds of aspects, like the world itself. Wouldn't you like to be accepted for being yourself? KÖN is a brand with a 0% prejudiced policy. The…
This biodegradable and compostable hoodie is one of the latest project by Vollebak, previously featured on WeVux. The aim of this jumper is simple: "5,000 years ago our ancestors made their clothes from nature, using grass, tree bark, animal skins and plants. We need to get back to the point where you could throw your…
Ying Gao questions our assumptions about clothing by combining fashion design, product design and media design. WeVux already talked about her projects, Possible Tomorrows and Can't and Won't.
Ying Gao 's Flowing water, Standing time project was inspired by neurologist Oliver Sacks’ novel, The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, in which he…
Now that censorship seems to be back in fashion, this augmented-reality t-shirt collection by the Swedish retailer Carlings proves to be a good method for protesting and expressing yourself freely, without risking prison or even worse. Launched in 1980 and with stores across Scandinavia, Carlings prides itself on taking an innovative and sustainable approach to high-street fashion.…
Benjamin Benmoyal is a French-Israeli designer and the creator of “It Was Better Tomorrow”. In an interview, he explained that he was feeling pessimistic about the world after his compulsory service as an 18 year old in the Israeli army.
In enrolling at the renowned art school Central Saint Martins, Benmoyal…