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Hi, I'm seeking like minds.
I grew up designing and making my own clothes since a little girl, and apprenticed with Mirage in Melbourne, Australia’s largest CMT house for major Oz designers; before studying fine art at Heatherleys in London. I was also sponsored by Mirage and a runner-up in the Australian Fashion Awards. Then I traveled and lived in a few different countries and got into planet activism and events, then running an online arts community, then helping manage festivals. Now current fashion has caught up with the designs in my head and the ideals in my heart and I recently returned to designing wearable art.
The stuff I’m now designing and reconstructing are Eco Couture, individual one-off’s made from recycled and vintage fabrics. My design skills are coming back and improving with each collection batch. Sketches and photos of recent experiments are up at www.recycledfordancing.com plus I already have clothes in 2 boutiques, addresses are on the site under Retail Stores.
I also do custom stage gear, before working on festivals full time I actually did costumes for Music TV dancers, musicians, and theatre. I had a few designs on national TV way back when, on long running music TV show called Countdown. And I designed costumes for a whole Bertolt Brecht play at the Chelsea Playhouse in London, plus whole wardrobes for nightclub dancers and contemporary cabaret.
My current designs are inspired by San Francisco and Japanese street fashion, as well as European Couture and Burning Man. For me it is sculpture using textiles with a wearable framework and chaos, I take something that I see and mix it with something else that I see, each piece inspiring the next piece. Anyway take a peek at www.recycledfordancing.com for art’s sake, and keep me in mind when you are thinking of new additions to your wardrobe or recycling your wardrobe.
Thank you for being here.
Deborah Paulino
Eco Couture
www.recycledfordancing.com
I grew up designing and making my own clothes since a little girl, and apprenticed with Mirage in Melbourne, Australia’s largest CMT house for major Oz designers; before studying fine art at Heatherleys in London. I was also sponsored by Mirage and a runner-up in the Australian Fashion Awards. Then I traveled and lived in a few different countries and got into planet activism and events, then running an online arts community, then helping manage festivals. Now current fashion has caught up with the designs in my head and the ideals in my heart and I recently returned to designing wearable art.
The stuff I’m now designing and reconstructing are Eco Couture, individual one-off’s made from recycled and vintage fabrics. My design skills are coming back and improving with each collection batch. Sketches and photos of recent experiments are up at www.recycledfordancing.com plus I already have clothes in 2 boutiques, addresses are on the site under Retail Stores.
I also do custom stage gear, before working on festivals full time I actually did costumes for Music TV dancers, musicians, and theatre. I had a few designs on national TV way back when, on long running music TV show called Countdown. And I designed costumes for a whole Bertolt Brecht play at the Chelsea Playhouse in London, plus whole wardrobes for nightclub dancers and contemporary cabaret.
My current designs are inspired by San Francisco and Japanese street fashion, as well as European Couture and Burning Man. For me it is sculpture using textiles with a wearable framework and chaos, I take something that I see and mix it with something else that I see, each piece inspiring the next piece. Anyway take a peek at www.recycledfordancing.com for art’s sake, and keep me in mind when you are thinking of new additions to your wardrobe or recycling your wardrobe.
Thank you for being here.
Deborah Paulino
Eco Couture
www.recycledfordancing.com
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Re: Eco Couture
Wed, August 20, 2008 - 6:42 AMYou really need to stop spamming these tribes. It is very irritating. -
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Re: Eco Couture
Wed, August 20, 2008 - 10:55 AMMaybe you anti spammers are too hard on people and judge to quickly.
Maybe some people don’t get out much and the web is the only way to share themselves or the awareness about a serious issue that is important to the planet and community. Written communications to the masses is awkward for a lot of people.
I see event listings all over the place, which are commercial posts and technically spam.
Yet a person tries to reach out with info about what she does to meet new people and raise awareness about a serious issue using her art in a medium that all folks can relate too (clothing) and you bash her for it.
That’s an ouch
I know a way to save the world and am trying to get the word out. Is that so politically incorrect?
Out of curiosity, wanna know what I’ve done already to save the world…. Check out www.iq.org.au It’s an 8 acre piece of land that 1 and 7 others liaison with the federal government for, I also did the founding paperwork and administration, to save it as community trust and community gardens, before the town turned into a tourist trap. The 8 of us others got down and dirty pulling old tires from the lake and acres of weeds and thorns and crap from the land as well Permaculture education and regeneration and producing fundraising events for several years to do it. That land is permanently saved and given back to the community and is now also used by local Aboriginal tribes for gatherings and ceremonies and international film festivals for outdoor screenings. (Celebrity Trivia: The Gray Balinese gate posts were donated by Rhett Hutchens, brother of the late Michael Hutchens of the original INXS; Rhett was one of our 8.)
Each of us only needs to save 1 acre and we all really could save the world.
Now my mission is fashion and textiles because it was my first career and art and it is the elephant standing in all our rooms. Check out the About page on www.recycledfordancing.com for some eye opening research I found.
As for my contribution to the USA and SF arts community in general check out www.gigslist.org (Original folks from SF Spin Jam will remember it as Round Up)
Spreading positive information is positive.
Group hug?
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Re: Eco Couture
Wed, August 20, 2008 - 10:55 AMMaybe you anti spammers are too hard on people and judge to quickly.
Maybe some people don’t get out much and the web is the only way to share themselves or the awareness about a serious issue that is important to the planet and community. Written communications to the masses is awkward for a lot of people.
I see event listings all over the place, which are commercial posts and technically spam.
Yet a person tries to reach out with info about what she does to meet new people and raise awareness about a serious issue using her art in a medium that all folks can relate too (clothing) and you bash her for it.
That’s an ouch
I know a way to save the world and am trying to get the word out. Is that so politically incorrect?
Out of curiosity, wanna know what I’ve done already to save the world…. Check out www.iq.org.au It’s an 8 acre piece of land that 1 and 7 others liaison with the federal government for, I also did the founding paperwork and administration, to save it as community trust and community gardens, before the town turned into a tourist trap. The 8 of us others got down and dirty pulling old tires from the lake and acres of weeds and thorns and crap from the land as well Permaculture education and regeneration and producing fundraising events for several years to do it. That land is permanently saved and given back to the community and is now also used by local Aboriginal tribes for gatherings and ceremonies and international film festivals for outdoor screenings. (Celebrity Trivia: The Gray Balinese gate posts were donated by Rhett Hutchens, brother of the late Michael Hutchens of the original INXS; Rhett was one of our 8.)
Each of us only needs to save 1 acre and we all really could save the world.
Now my mission is fashion and textiles because it was my first career and art and it is the elephant standing in all our rooms. Check out the About page on www.recycledfordancing.com for some eye opening research I found.
As for my contribution to the USA and SF arts community in general check out www.gigslist.org (Original folks from SF Spin Jam will remember it as Round Up)
Spreading positive information is positive.
Group hug?
