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Timo Rissanen: Fashion Creation Without Fabric Waste Creation
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This blog documents the progress (and occasionally not) of my PhD, commenced in late 2004. I'm investigating fashion creation without fabric waste creation through design practice. Copyright Timo Rissanen 2006-2009
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New home - please update your bookmarks

I am now at timorissanen.com This place isnt going anywhere, but nor will it be updated. I am expanding :)

17 oct 11

Yield catalogue now available

The catalogue for the Yield exhibition is now available. Proceeds from the sales of the catalogue support programming at the Textile Arts Center, the New York home of Yield. The exhibition opens to t...

08 sep 11

Zero-Waste: Fashion Re-Patterned - photos

Zero-Waste: Fashion Re-Patterned, curated by Arti Sandhu, is open until April 16 - thats Saturday next week, so be sure to visit A + D Gallery at Columbia College Chicago. Thank you to Jennifer Murra...

05 apr 11

Just in case...

...I get some new visitors due to some unloved comments on a blog I adore, let me point you to the first image on a post I wrote on a problematic birthday three years ago. (I dont know if my brother ...

20 mar 11

Zero-Waste: Fashion Repatterned at Columbia College Chicago

This morning Im in Chicago to do a workshop and a lecture to coincide with Zero-Waste: Fashion Repatterned, curated by Arti Sandhu at Columbia College Chicago, on show at A + D Gallery at Columbia Co...

09 mar 11

Shaping Sustainable Fashion

Yesterday I got my copy of Shaping Sustainable Fashion, the book I edited with Alison Gwilt. So proud! Thank you to everyone at Earthscan for the endless patience with my heinous schedule, thank you ...

25 feb 11

thank you

Coming to the end of an amazing year, it is time to acknowledge and thank the people who Ive had the privilege to work with. Back in July, this neglected blog had 40 or so followers. There are now 10...

18 dec 10

Kudos to IVANAHelsinki (and shame on Ivana Trump)

Two weeks ago I managed to squeeze in an hour at NY fashion week to catch IVANAHelsinkis show. My shoddy video of the finale above, made even shoddier by Blogger. IVANAHelsinki is a Finnish brand led...

03 oct 10

Hupparin kaava ja linkkejä kuviin

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02 oct 10

Waste management hierarchy

Image from the Wikipedia article on waste management hierarchy. In the wake of the NYTimes article and it going viral, its perhaps timely to reiterate a few things. A number of people have left comme...

22 aug 10

New York Times on Parsons and Loomstate

Thank you to Stephanie Rosenbloom at the New York Times. Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning the article on the Parsons and Loomstate collaboration went live, and life has been somewha...

19 aug 10

Updated: zero-waste and less waste designers

Last August I attempted something of a list of zero-waste designers that I was aware of; since then a few more have come to my attention so heres an update on that list. I also omitted some researche...

20 jul 10

Resurrectine

Terry Fox, Resurrectine, 2007The Junky Styling Wardrobe Surgery is an extension of Resurrectine, a fantastic exhibition at the Ronald Feldman Gallery. I spent a good hour again yesterday checking it ...

17 jun 10

Rogan and Loomstate sample sale

Sorry to miss this; Finland beckons in three days!

17 jun 10

Junky Styling - Wardrobe Surgery

Annika and Kerry from Junky Styling are here! From today until Saturday they have a pop-up shoppy thing at the Ronald Feldman Gallery as part of Resurrectine, an exhibition Id highly recommend. You c...

15 jun 10

Julian Roberts & J.R. Campbell NYC workshops 11-12 June 2010

Firstly, to those 1265 of you waiting on me to respond to emails etc. I am so very sorry. I am currently doing about three full-time jobs worth of work (in fact, about to head to the office on a Sund...

13 jun 10

Parsons 2010 Show - some of the sustainability tiles

Here are some of the tiles I created for the sustainability section in the School of Fashion exhibit in the Parsons 2010 Show.The School of Fashion Sustainability Manifesto:A Sydney friends laundry a...

20 may 10

Done...

20 may 10

Parsons 2010 Show

At work weve referred to this as the Five Schools Show - the Schools of Fashion, Art, Media & Technology, Design Strategies, Art & Design History & Theory and Constructed Environments are...

19 may 10

CutPrint = JR + JR: Details

As I mentioned some time ago, Julian Roberts is coming to NYC; less than a month to go now! The details for the NYC event are below but Julians tour will also cover Toronto, St. Helena CA and Vancouv...

15 may 10

Thank you WGSN, with thanks to Lynda Grose and Kate Fletcher

Thank you to Libby Banks and Andrew Jobling at WGSN; I feel humbled. I must say, my sustainability heroes are Kate Fletcher and Lynda Grose. Two amazing people whove been at it longer than most, and ...

15 may 10

thank you

Thank you once again Zoe! Once again, these beautiful birds come at a particularly welcome time; two of my closest are quite unwell, though with potentially positive eventual outcomes. Being far away...

13 may 10

Eco Chic - Towards Sustainable Swedish Fashion (part 2)

The press photos provided by the organizers are simply too beautiful not to use so here they are - thank you organizers! The copyright owner of all the photographs is the Swedish Institute, www.image...

05 may 10

Eco Chic - Towards Sustainable Swedish Fashion (part 1)

This wonderful exhibition, having already toured extensively, opened last night at Scandinavia House here in NY with a symposium on which Ive written at the Parsons School of Fashion blog. The exhibi...

05 may 10

RIP Malcolm McLaren

Waltz Darling - one of my favourite albums. Enjoy:Not from Waltz Darling, I know:

09 apr 10

Je ne Regretsy rien

My Regretsy book arrived! Exciting, as it means one less stolen piece of mail (I really should post a photo of the mail boxes in my building - it's a postal buffet) and a recap of some of the best la...

08 apr 10

Lifecycles at UTS

Sydneysiders, today (I think - I'm lost in time zones) UTS is hosting Lifecycles, a seminar on sustainable fashion organized by Professor of Advanced Textiles, Marie O'Mahony. And what a line-up!Jon ...

07 apr 10

Junky Styling: Salvage, Sustainability and Fashion

I've reported on last night's fantastic discussion with Annika and Kerry from Junky Styling elsewhere. It was truly inspiring; I left wanting to set up my sewing machine straight away and get my hand...

07 apr 10

Secret Shop Demolition and Sample Sale

Sydneysiders, this is a must visit for you over the next three days. Over the past eighteen months the building has been a true hub of creativity, with Marsu Homme, George Plionis jewellery (both for...

07 apr 10

CutPrint = JR + JR

New Yorkers, save the dates June 11th and 12th: Julian Roberts will be teaming up with JR Campbell from Kent State University for the NY leg of Julian's Subtraction Cutting Tour. Sandra Ericson from ...

06 apr 10

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