WARDROBE REVOLUTION WEEKEND: LUISA CEVESE
Image courtesy of Luisa Cevese of the Riedizioni Project
Luisa Cevese is an artist and textile designer born in Milano, where she currently lives and works. Her main principle is simple: ‘I love waste, working with waste’. After studying Classics, she started to work as an apprentice in Paola Besana weaving Studio in Milan. She also studied on and off-loom weaving techniques, spinning, and dying both in Italy and abroad. She began creating textiles for fashion and interiors in 1984.
In 1996 she started the Riedizioni Project, where she re-appropriates post- production and post-consuming materials, combining them with pure polyurethane to create an original and innovative fabric, suitable to be cut into one-of-a-kind bags, accessories, and home products. Luisa Cevese Riedizioni collection is sold in selected fashion and design stores and contemporary art museum stores. Her work has been exhibited in several museums and galleries around the world.
Luisa Cevese will join us for our Wardrobe Revolution Weekend, online talk on Saturday 8 October 2022. After a brief introduction about her work as a designer and about the Riedizioni concept, Luisa will focus on the Carré Project, a format she launched recently to create unique items re-using and re-purposing objects people already have in their wardrobe. The Carré Project started with a call: “Would you like to transform your favourite carré into a bag?”
Image: Luisa Cevese of the Riedizioni Project
We asked Luisa Cevese for her advice on creating a sustainable wardrobe? Here is what she said...
"A more sustainable wardrobe is built, first of all, by buying according to your personality and taste, buying what you deeply like which will not easily change, and not according to fashion diktats. A (good) consequence of this will be less consumption as your wardrobe will last forever.
Second, try to make use of and give value to what you already have. You will see a good example of this during our talk. Of course, then, if you have some extra pieces, give them to someone who will enjoy them!"
Image courtesy of Luisa Cevese of the Riedizioni Project
Hear more about Luisa's work as a designer, re-using and re-purposing garments on Saturday 8 October 2022 at our Wardrobe Revolution Weekend. The event will be held on Zoom and will comprise a fast-moving Japanese-style seminar with 20 speakers, including a documentary filmmaker, activists, designers and artists, each of whom approaches the environmental crisis happening in our wardrobes from a different perspective. Book your ticket on our website here: www.selvedge.org.
If you want to learn practical skills to making your clothes last longer, we have organise a series of online workshops exploring techniques and skills to upcycle, reuse and reinvent garments. Find out more about the workshops here: www.selvedge.org.
Luisa Cevese is an artist and textile designer born in Milano, where she currently lives and works. Her main principle is simple: ‘I love waste, working with waste’. After studying Classics, she started to work as an apprentice in Paola Besana weaving Studio in Milan. She also studied on and off-loom weaving techniques, spinning, and dying both in Italy and abroad. She began creating textiles for fashion and interiors in 1984.
In 1996 she started the Riedizioni Project, where she re-appropriates post- production and post-consuming materials, combining them with pure polyurethane to create an original and innovative fabric, suitable to be cut into one-of-a-kind bags, accessories, and home products. Luisa Cevese Riedizioni collection is sold in selected fashion and design stores and contemporary art museum stores. Her work has been exhibited in several museums and galleries around the world.
Luisa Cevese will join us for our Wardrobe Revolution Weekend, online talk on Saturday 8 October 2022. After a brief introduction about her work as a designer and about the Riedizioni concept, Luisa will focus on the Carré Project, a format she launched recently to create unique items re-using and re-purposing objects people already have in their wardrobe. The Carré Project started with a call: “Would you like to transform your favourite carré into a bag?”
Image: Luisa Cevese of the Riedizioni Project
We asked Luisa Cevese for her advice on creating a sustainable wardrobe? Here is what she said...
"A more sustainable wardrobe is built, first of all, by buying according to your personality and taste, buying what you deeply like which will not easily change, and not according to fashion diktats. A (good) consequence of this will be less consumption as your wardrobe will last forever.
Second, try to make use of and give value to what you already have. You will see a good example of this during our talk. Of course, then, if you have some extra pieces, give them to someone who will enjoy them!"
Image courtesy of Luisa Cevese of the Riedizioni Project
Hear more about Luisa's work as a designer, re-using and re-purposing garments on Saturday 8 October 2022 at our Wardrobe Revolution Weekend. The event will be held on Zoom and will comprise a fast-moving Japanese-style seminar with 20 speakers, including a documentary filmmaker, activists, designers and artists, each of whom approaches the environmental crisis happening in our wardrobes from a different perspective. Book your ticket on our website here: www.selvedge.org.
If you want to learn practical skills to making your clothes last longer, we have organise a series of online workshops exploring techniques and skills to upcycle, reuse and reinvent garments. Find out more about the workshops here: www.selvedge.org.