Some of the most interesting shows of Paris fashion week have come from millennials and Generation Z creators rejecting the over-consumption they were brought up with.
Some of the most interesting shows of Paris fashion week - once notorious for its decadence and waste - have come from millennials and Generation Z creators rejecting the over-consumption they were brought up with.
"But the apocalypse can be positive if we use it to stimulate creation, using shells" or things that are already there"and cost nothing", she said.They recut existing clothes or surplus stock for their glamorous futurist evening and streetwear. "To do something new we would take a garment apart and recut it, or put it back together in our way," she Bosch, who met Gadient in fashion school in Switzerland.Image:"We have been doing this since we were kids. You maybe have a favourite T-shirt or jacket and it is not working anymore, so you take it apart and you try to make something new.""You might discover amazing things, the lining and stitching that can give you ideas - you can do so many things," she said.
Stylish and eco-friendly: models for Andreas Kronthaler/Vivienne Westwood Paris fashion show were among those on the catwalk.Her Austrian-born husband Andreas Krontaller, who now designs their Paris shows, thinks fashion needs a reality check."I like making enormous collections but I don't think it fits our times. We don't need all this stuff.
'I only make a piece if I really like it,' said Andreas Kronthaler, who now designs the Vivienne Westwood Paris shows.Kronthaler said he mostly works from surplus high-quality fabrics gathering dust in the vast warehouses that supply the industry.Putting the planet first is a given for this new generation of designers showing in Paris.
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