Vetements- Vetememes---

Saw a French programme on French TV while visiting mum... and discovered this...In plain French VETEMENTS means clothes... On the back of the expensive DHL Tees sold out quickly, a business thinking young man created Vetememes---memes = same... and also started doing well....
So if you are a designer and looking for an interesting company name... it makes you wonder... call me backward... but even though working in the industry and working in Asia the past 7 months, it took travelling to a tiny remote French place to discover this brand... thanks mum...

First to call a clothing company clothes... just because it is French... Vetements... is it how the creative process is rewarded?  DHL Tees out of stock going for hundreds of dollars -  are now on Amazon as DTF by Outsider for £9.99 .

Vetememes copied the exact same plain black raincoat...as super plain Vetements... ??? Can anyone explain the value in these garments?

Marilyn Dress

http://bit.ly/2R8Q6MtMarilynWhiteDress

 went  for over 5 millions, and students ask who designed it: 

anyone knows?

Use it or Lose it!

Sometimes we learn how important it is to use our creativity and share it... Luckily I met Sueme who taught me this very lesson... sharing ideas with Jools who started the company, enabled me to develop my own creativity and slowly share it... Luckily Jools' sense of business kicks in to move the artwork to commercial print and products like the Iconic Buff, the super comfy trunks, and now the seamless third generation viscose wood pulp Tees, which all make the perfect next-to-skin high performance cleanest apparel on the market for outdoor "junkies" who take risks every day on the slopes, the bikes, the waves...... Use it or  = Lose it ===  Share it  @wearesueme

Thanks for the new Tee-- a real delight to wear...

On top of making artwork commercial Jools has also participated in the circular economy loop by moving the essentials of CS4 into the creative warehouse he shares with other like-minded creative entrepreneurs... 

By the way the trunks are great in Asia, in the hot humid weather... as well as in cooler climate such as UK or continental Europe... Just try globe trotting with it... 

Power of nature

A leaf can inspire in so many different ways

HA THI THONG

Dear Ha Thi Thong,

Thank you so much for sending the beautiful pictures of your most amazing collection...

 I can see each technical pack in motion and it is great:

 you have worked so hard making each design up, including really difficult experimental techniques to finish elasticated part of coat hem and piping inserts...

Your tailoring expertise and sense of design are worth praising: well done, and most particularly, congratulations for freeing yourself: 

I hope your creativity continues to bring you towards freer and freer places... 

Love from London...

Les Fashionelles'2009

Sketching at the William Morris Museum

Designing at CS4

Free draping session with factory lengths picked up in TJ's Factory, near Commercial road 

A fruitful sunny healthy day....

Planting Healthy Creative Seeds since 2009 ... 

Soon to celebrate our 10th anniversary in January 2019--

Seeds that grow beyond continents: 

Fabrics and textiles such as cotton, viscose, bamboo, come from the earth,

and help us every day plant more creative seeds ... those we planted in 2009 are growing further ... 

Here is the unknown story of locally planted seeds for creative growth...

Meeting Cherise: her inspirational story...

Cherise is planning her Fashion business while fully employed as HR officer: 

growing seeds planted while on a grassroot local Fashion Circular  Enterprise in 2009 at the Youth Centre, 10 Bruce Grove: the programme was about mapping out unused resources, which led to discover Textiles due to landfill, an empty space, and young women wishing to learn in a way which was not accessible within the established curriculum.

Walking by the Lea River Valley helps bring creative ideas together...

Cherise and and co-students helped rescue Textile company  Elite 15 year supply library, due to landfill when globalisation pushed companies into closure.

Opening creative hub Creative Studio 4 was another seed Cherise contributed to plant for others to grow too while on the course in May 2009: 

a step that help grow local creative talents, house the surplus textiles, which after 8 years were still in surplus and donated to local projects and institutions: Cafe Connect: Living Under One Sun (TottenhamHale), People's World Carnival Band (Tottenham), LCCA (London),  Big Creative Education (Walthamstow), or internationally LCDF (Hanoi)

Cherise and her friends contributed to inspire many more projects into growth and action in Tottenham, reviving the creative skills, like a movement of grass root fashion development based on a new holistic concept that the full process can be accessible in the least expected places:

The complete experience of the fashion design process include complex skills such as pattern cutting which were made available as part of a vision to empower anyone to create from concept to final product, process made visible from a front window, and delivered within local community centres such as the Lordship Hub, the Tottenham Hale Engine Room, and a programme called SEW (Sew for Education and Work) delivered from Children's centres to enable young mothers to break the bond with newly born safely.

Actually Cherise and her group did more than learning and steering into action: they also brought to birth the healing process involved within the creative process: their roots are in Tottenham, and their interaction has helped heal and bring hope within the community, nesting their creative work within a stigmatised social environment which currently is rated as the most vibrant and exciting regenerated area in London.

 Well done to 2009 Creative Crops...