fashionRIP Project

the fashionRIP Project utilizes recycouture clothing as an element within the context of the larger story...or how fashion influences, crops, trade, transportation, chemical industries, waste making , recycling, politics, technology etc.

Fashion off the catwalk has a major impact on how we humans translate the world for ourselves and our wants.  This narrow way of thinking has put us on a collision course with the natural eco balance of this planet.  The very balance that helped our species grow and now because of this growth, is jeopardized in its ability to maintain the very cycles that supported the complex biodiversity of life it takes to maintain itself and us. Nature is not the enemy, our way of seeing it is.

As creatures of a natural world we need to see ourselves within the context of the whole,  Our material, exploitive systems to conomic gain has been a delusion of wealth.  It is time to turn our attention away from the fear and open our hearts and wallets to the world we used to believe was possible.  Guess what -it is! As we focus our energy on our ability to heal in body, mind and spirit we will evolve into our better natures.

the fashionRIP Project is a collaborative, local, communication art/fashion/sustainability installation based on a need to use our voices beyond the regular media because we all know we can and must do better than what we are doing now! It is an experiment in possibilities.

The business model that will replicate the experience of this project will support the artists at grassroots levels where the creative blooms best and can be a platform for less hierarchal constructs and whole human  considerations. Our old class systems of owners and workers or leaders and the masses were narrow, artificial, exploitive and arrogantly silly. It is time for another format. It is time for new formats to prove their economic stability based on our new understanding of life..