After 11 years in London, where this project started, we now have moved to Paris and we are based in a new fabulous co-working space: LA RUCHE.
La Ruche is a collective working and creative space to start a business differently in Paris. Open to any entrepreneur responding to a social or environmental challenge in an innovative way.
Watch here the video of a panel discussion held in New York about the future of sustainable fashion.
For every panelist questioned, a different definition of what sustainability engendered came out, as well as myriad ideas about how to push the movement forward.
Click here to watch the video…
C4CC is much more than a bright and friendly co-working space.
It is a space where real collaboration takes place, where different and innovative ways of working together are priviliged and experimented.
Here are a few images of our 4 months residency…
So this is where we are right now…
We are overjoyed to reveal the direction this adventure is travelling in. Developments and endeavours have driven us to bring together exquisite Indian expertise; silk magic and shine; hand embroidery ancestral craftsmanship; social impact and sustainable sourcing; resulting in unique and beautiful scarves.
Can fashion be a form of social activism? Can designers engages participants to reform fashion from a phenomenon of dictations and anxiety to a collective experience of empowerment, in other words, to make them become fashion-able?
Extracts of utterly brilliant and fascinating thesis Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design by Otto von Busch
It’s time to develop, collaborate and create.
Where better to do it than in our home C4CC, The Centre for Creative Collaboration.
It’s International Women’s Day and through our collaborative powers (and partly by chance) we have a room full of women ready to knock heads and share the power of thinking.
Luxurious, cultured, authentic…
Providing fashion, beauty, art and history silk holds an array of elegance in its existence.
So what exactly is silk? From the worm to the soft and precious fabric, can it be a world-friendly product?
Want to know where does our organic cotton product come from? Follow here our full manufacturing process from the organic cotton field to the final piece, divided into 4 posts/chapters:
Process 1: from organic cotton field to factory
Process 2: from raw cotton to fabric yarn
Process 3: fabric is dyed with natural herbal dyes
Process 4: fabric is finally embroidered
We are looking for an intern to join and help to launch the brand into the world and to form a collaborative team of creative people, including dancer/model, photographer, film maker/video artist, musician, stylist, lighting designer… to produce an outstanding fashion performance-showcasing our beautiful scarves-to be artistically filmed and photographed as well.
More details in post!
CACC is a neutral place where people from many different backgrounds – universities, large corporates, SMEs, freelancers – can work together on new things in the belief that real innovation happens at the edge and in the gaps between disciplines.
You can NOW find us on the first floor of the Centre 4 Creative Collaboration, on Acton Street, near King Cross, in London, come and see us!
