I have only met Borre Akkersdijk on Zoom so far. Aart van Bezooijen, professor at the Faculty of Design and Arts at UniBz and co-organizer of our new platform "Fashion For Future", invited him to a masterclass as part of the workshop program. Borre studied textile design, in 2012 he was awarded Young Designer of the Year at the Dutch Design Awards for his research on the future of fashion. For Fashion For Future, the Dutch textile designer and co-founder of the textile innovation studio BYBORRE will offer a masterclass on "CREATE Online Design" on Thursday, May 4 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

    Who would have thought that an old man's shirt can be transformed into a cool design piece with some thoughtful interventions? My sister Ulli showed me the project of her friend Rebecca Chamberlain "Regenerated" and I was hooked...

      Do you remember? It's been almost three years since I had a conversation with Daria Andronescu for this blog about her project Wonder Wardrobe. A few months later we met in Berlin and again a few months later in Düsseldorf, where she was living at the time. A year ago Daria moved to Lisbon with her husband Mircea. From there she now looks after her worldwide community. I was in Portugal this summer for family and vacation reasons and curious to see how Wonder Wardrobe has evolved...