The PLEASURE of Handmade Fashion | Are.na Editorial
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The PLEASURE of Handmade Fashion | Are.na Editorial
Raeburn, a label based in London that focuses on responsible and innovative design, hosts a variety of workshops where attendees are invited to design and customise their own items, using off-cuts from the atelier.
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Loro Piana, the crown jewel of “quiet luxury” is now under court administration after one of its workshops was found exploiting workers under brutal conditions: 90-hour weeks, €4-an-hour wages, and illegal factory housing.
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instagram.comCraft is contemporary because it is progressive, because creating things by hand yourself proposes an alternative microeconomic of local making, a system of exchange more akin to bartering with its emphasis on trade and tactile connections to supply-and-demand. It is environmentally conscious and respectful of the earth's diminishing resources. Cra
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