ABOUT FASHION OPEN STUDIO

Fashion Open Studio, Fashion Revolution’s showcasing initiative, launched in 2017, is a week of presentations, talks, and workshops with emerging designers, established trailblazers and major players, to celebrate the people and processes behind the process of making our clothes. When designers open up their studios to the public it creates a space for honest conversation, transparency and accountability. It also gives designers an opportunity to share their innovative and creative solutions to some of the urgent social and environmental challenges facing the industry today.

ABOUT FASHION REVOLUTION

Starting life in 2013 after the Rana Plaza Factory Collapse, Fashion Revolution is a global non-profit organisation that campaigns for a clean, safe, fair, transparent and accountable fashion industry. This is done through research, education, collaboration, mobilisation and advocacy. Fashion Revolution believes in a global fashion industry that conserves and restores the environment and values people over growth and profit.

ABOUT THE CELC

The European Confederation of Flax and Hemp (CELC) is the only European agro-industrial organization federating all the stages of production and transformation for linen & hemp. Created in 1951, the CELC incites reflection, market analyses, industry concertation and strategic orientations. The confederation creates an ideal competitive environment for industry companies. Its actions, inscribed in an international context, stimulate innovation and rely on the value of these natural fibers with their proven environmental qualities.

THE WORKSHOP

For Fashion Open Studio 2021, ABOUT A WORKER was invited to organise a workshop in collaboration with the CELC + Fashion Revolution France . ABOUT A WORKER organised a creative pencilcase printing workshop with linen given by the CELC. The workshop was an experiment to test the many qualities linen can have as an expressive fabric. Before the workshop ABOUT A WORKER researched what linen looked like from a microscope in order to create stencils for the participants.

STEP 1 : CHOOSE A STENCIL, A COLOR & A TOOL

We made out stencils inspired by linen fibers from the inside, and its different shapes during its evolution.

STEP 2 : EXPRESS YOUR CREATIVITY

The participants experimented with the many stencils and colours placed on the table and showed us their inner talent by creating expressive patterns!