Saturday 10 November 2018

concrete, skater boys and kombucha fabric

So, I was just chucking out my latest copy of i-D magazine (I read it on the train, usually) and found yet more inspiration for my difficult back bed. Angled chunk of concrete, actor to perch on it, boom, done. The actor might be difficult to source long-term but I do have a cat that can sit on a surface of almost any angle, so that shouldn't be a problem.


In the same issue, there's some class advertainment from Palace Skate in the form of a photoshoot set in the Parco dei Mostri. There were only two photos in the magazine but I tracked down the rest on Palace's instagram (FOLLOW) which give a nice idea of its heady charms:




Their online shop leaves no doubt that Palace a good brand for the gardener:


Finally there was a piece on experimental low-waste sustainable green fashion that featured some big trees and a dress by AurĂ©lie Fontan who has been making zero waste fabric out of recycled cork, cable ties and biogrown fabric derived from kombucha. Through a process of Design for Disassembly, Design for Slower Consumption and Design for Waste Minimization, she has been carefully laser-cutting, tesselating and trimming and getting fabric grown in labs to create zero-waste clothes that look as much grown as designed. They may not be as practical for the gardening, but they'll work brilliantly for the garden party:


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