Ten wheel loop for a piece of cloth...and many more lives to touch...

So like the cat and it’s many lives, the textile loop goes like this

1- fabric made (long process from fibre to fabric...)

2- designs produced and sold (one more long process from designer to market)

3- surplus fabric rolls not being used will go to Craig, whose father was in Berwick streets, so knows contacts, and grandfather tailor, a three generation loop in London

4- Online technology pushed trade away from shops, and fabrics now to find a new home in warehouse

5- Brexit created changes for Buff London entrepreneur Jools who rented warehouse space to Craig

6- Street violence and youth needing new skills linked to industry shrinking implied surplus resources going to waste: fabrics and sewing factorie... leading to social creative enterprise in 2008 as CS4, Creative Studio 4 on Broadwater Farm frontline till 2017...led by creative youths and a tutor, Cat

7- SueMe sustainable sportswear started jacket development from CS4 in support of local sewing programmes helping those furthest from social engagement as well as young mums sewing project SEW, leading to break bond with baby and learn new skills, make friends, adjust to a new life

8- Engagement in passing on surplus fabric supplies from CS4 to educational systems, local London community groups, and individuals building new social sustainable creative enterprises...

9- You the reader and future creator... present in this story and inspired we hope...

10- Here is what was folded up for Rosie to pick up on 24-10-19: thank you for being part of the loop and giving birth to new original designs... show the world what creativity can achieve...
Previous community pick-ups included Creative Communion and TheThanet sewing Hub

Refresh. With Peppermint...

So here is away to refresh your skills in pattern cutting and sewing experimentation, Coutesy of Peppermint Online magazine platform which offers a collection of patterns with construction guidelines.
Here is an extract with details to explore further:

Quote extract from Peppermint Magazine:
“We’d love to see what you made!
Find us on Instagram @peppermintmagazine and @inthefolds and tag your new dress with #peppermintsewingschool
Love the pattern?
Plenty more patterns can be found at www.peppermintmag.com/other/sewing-school/ +
www.inthefolds.com
Pattern is for individual use only
You can make the garment for yourself or as a gift. It does not enti- tle you to print, copy or distribute the pattern to others, whether you profit from it or not, nor to sell garments that you have made from this sewing pattern.
Thank you for respecting the rights of the designer.”

Enjoy the process... At Iconic Plisse, AKA IP, we place Intellectual Property at the core of the design process, and think innovation should be world wide protected, without costs or legal input, to give the creator the freedom of expression and the power to feel protected in order to continue creating and delivering, worry free.
This is where the fashion industry sustainable process must start, give the creator authenticity and recognition first.
 Creativity heals, and if creativity is not respected, it damages individuals and destroys our amazingly creative societies...

Mind Boggling...

Thank you Rachael for a superb show time, the Mind Body Soul and Yoga shows at Alexandra Palace were an amazing experience... and so inspiring to start on a new holistic path...

Circular energy... a loop of many...

This is a big loop, going up from picking up end of collection swatch cards from Excel, then went on to feed 8 years of Creative Studio 4 sharing within the Tottenham communities and colleges 15 years of fabric swatches donated by closing down suppliers Elite,

kindly relocated by Jools from SueMe where now sewing machines shelves and cutting table from CS4 turn SueMe Creative Design Studio...

which now is now fuelled by Craig’s offcuts, which have already been donated to The Thanet community sewing project, Ciara’s Creative Communion project based at Somerset House, linking artists and textiles, and tomorrow Rosie who is experimenting with new designs she hopes to incorporate in her youth project aiming at sharing skills and employment.

So Marilyn...

Not only do we not know who inherited your iconic Plisse dress for over 5 million dollars, but we also do not know who designed it... IP anyone ?

And today saw this from the design studio window...

So you still inspire us... thank you...

Soul path... inspired creAtivity

Triumph over the impossible

Bumble bee jasper according to Judy Hall stimulates new projects...

Love and good fortune rush towards you

Someone new lights up your life

Trust

Sueme Creative Studio

Where creativity and sustainability core values expand....with bespoke luxury gilets designed and made one by one with best eco-friendly components coupled with lasting craftsmanship

And Craig’s fabrics donations from his stock housed near the studio, going to good causes to continue feeding into the “less waste” more innovative approaches to growing new industries... 

The perfect loop to keep local industries flourishing and to offer customers a taste of bespoke luxury and unique style at affordable prices

www.sueme.com 

Own your Own...

Through the course of a much enjoyed gathering and sharing of ideas with friends last night , I was very inspired to share my story... on how to Own our Own emotions by becoming an innovator, reflector, creator...

A journey which I started myself in 1991, when researching for my Master's thesis in French Literature at Boston University, discovering the painting of women in 3D shapes such as precious natural stones in Beaudelaire "Les Fleurs du Mal" , a journey I translated into fashion and textile design shared with the wider public since 2008, and enjoying it today, as we have reached the 20th of July, exactly 50 years after the first man walked on the moon... sharing the Face of the Moon with us to inspire our lives beyond imagination...

Here it is the sunset at the Wetlands near Tottenham Hale... looking very white and shiny like the Silver Lady under the reflector's beams...

More Designer's Stories...

Through the course of sharing the design process over the pas 11 years... I created a small moodboard with a simple contrast to display the process quickly and inspire others to design their own visual map to keep organised while releasing the design process...

It starts with the eye of the desigenr in the left top corner and finish with the eyes or lips of other people in pink on the right.
There are 6 steps to discover along the way...

Meeting Grayson Perry and Kansai Yamamoto

THANK YOU,,,

Name dropping is not usually cool, but on a hot summer enchanting evening at the British Museum, stars mingled with the rest of us and made it feel so cool and refreshingly human...
The Manga Fashion show was delightfully amazing bringing together students of the arts from around the world to share with us their 3D amazing visions of what it is to be part of Manga culture opening a fresh perspective on the cultural theme for those less familiar with up and coming youth cultural mediatic developments.

Against this modern futuristic display of phenomenal talent came views which also brought us back to comforting values: Grayson Perry shared his four most cherished rules of success with us:
1- be on time
2- be nice
3- work relentlessly
4- trust your intuition

He said the last one takes years of therapy and that if any of these go missing, success will elude...
Many thanks for reminding us of these essential daily ingredients, and so good to have a chat with you and friends after the show.

I guess one main ingredient present throughout the whole evening was positivity, without which none of this would have ever happen, the power of a positive sharing creative spirit might be so obvious like air and water for artists such as Grayson Perry and Kansai Yamamoto that they never mentioned it directly, yet it was lifting the whole event.

Grayson Perry mentioned the British Museum was an enormous source of cultural exchanges to visit and enjoy on a daily basis and Kansai Yamamoto kindly invited all students and models onto the stage, showing great spirit for cultural exchanges, which to me is the secret positive ingredient for all positive developments, passing on the baton to the younger generation is the best gesture and message to share.

So a big thank you to these very larger than life yet so sharing activists of the creative put to good: Kansai's suit was amazing, portraying a white polar bear trying to climb over an ice patch...
THANK YOU BOTH! and Thank you C. for inviting us... Your creation was out of this world...

Mon Nouveau StudioSuemeSolstice

Pour mon cousin Alain en Francais... voila le nouveau studio SueMe Solstice, des plantes des bamboos comme a Hanoi en Asie mon cousin, la bonne ambiance, le travail ...ca boome, nouveau design Veste polaire funky coupee sur mesure pour JimRod en taille XXL - j'aime ca la coupe, la mise en place --- c est la magie des mains... toi tu connais ca avec ta musique... ici beau soleil chaud a Londres... bizzzz

Dans ce grand Hangar Jools fait la distribution du Buff, un tour de cou coupe vent qui vient d une compagnie pres de Barcelone... on a un peu pousse le piano... et les motos/ velos... pour faire la place a la machine a coudre, qui vient de mon ancien Studio at Tottenham, et placee chez SueMe avant l'Asie...

Le Float (grand chariot comme au carnaval) contre le Brexit est entrepose par ceux qui essaient de dire que c'est une erreur... moi je pense que chaque europeen aurait du voter pour dire si on commencait la division de l'Europe ou pas, et comment faire pour demarrer cette page historique...
Voila ce qu'on peut lire en France dans les gares publiques, bon message a cherir et partager...

Ici Collioure, Architecture Maure a la frontiere entre France et Espagne partagee "paisiblement" par les Catalans... l'histoire a demande des sacrifices, savourons l'entente, la paix et les droits internationaux humains, quelques fois compromis voire eradiques par les systemes postfeodaux regis par les monarchies archaiques qui voudraient s'appeler democracies....