rethink-fashion: Open Source Design - Based on a Collaborative approach, something that I feel is so
rethink-fashion: Open Source Design - Based on a Collaborative approach, something that I feel is so of this generation and growing in this time. I’ll post a video that Miriam showed us of TED talk promoting this collaborative approach. - It is based on sharing knowledge and dispersing ideas in an open way Images - The Yohji Yamamoto open source pattern In this class we learnt about open source design, a concept that I had heard of but never applied to fashion. It really excited me because I see the value in it. Essentially the idea is that designers make their patterns available on the internet so that people can download them and make the garment themselves or with the help of a local seamstress. Unlike mass produced garments that are made in large quantities, with orders put in for an estimated amount of sales but no guarantee people will buy it - open source clothing design is a sustainable practice because when someone wants the garment, they make it. There is no wasted garments! And the person who downloads the pattern and makes the garment to fit will feel a much deeper connection to it because they have played a part in the construction. They might’ve chosen the material or sewn the pieces or even had it fitted to them. Psychologically they would be less like to readily expose what they have made and put hours into. Open source design also paves way for improvements on the design, which could involve making the original pattern more sustainable in fabric usage (something that I find the Yohji pattern to not be). So the Yohji Yamamoto design above uses a few metres of calico, something that I would want to change. We’re yet to sew the garment; Yamamoto said about the pattern that “it is hard to see what it is just looking at it.” There was also a McQueen jacket and a SANS pattern to choose from but I liked the Yohji one better. Perhaps it’s my love of Japanese designers, the inherent simplicity to the pattern and the unusual shape of the pattern looks challenging but exciting. It is not constructed in a traditional way and this will open my way of thinking. -- source link