the fashionRIP Experiment

deborah barnes
concept originator, producer, director, editor, recycouture designer and sewer, illustrator, marketing head
writer, facilitator and nurturer of the fashionRIP Project....etc.

Phoenix

The RIP Project now needs its own support blogs, wow! i didn't see that one coming!

New ideas have no facts and figures therefore funding is difficult because so many financial folk deal with the numbers. So one either speculates (makes up) based on something similar or one is attached to wealth and can self finance or one has an idea, faith in the universe and higher physics and the nerve to believe that the over consciousness (J.Campbell) is evolution prone and will prevail despite the denial of the majority as that majority is shrinking fast....

When i started my interest in sustainable fashion during the 90's, it was just a glimmer, a spark noticed when viewing warehouses from the bus window. I thought about all that stuff in those warehouses and wondered what would happen if no one produced or bought anything except the necessities for a year. Would we even miss it?

i knew then that i did not want to be part of that system and vowed to do only custom and one of a kind garments. However, that was against a riptide and no amount of appreciative clients and work hours could keep me afloat without an influx of funds to provide a better location and presentation aka "price according to expectations!" I surfaced and went back to school.

What is a plus for the global ecosystem is a minus in our old economic agenda. It is time to let go of that plan as the rules of business need to align with the best side of our human natures. It isn't a game, nor a jungle....so grow up! and that has not a thing to do with the number of years since birth.

Today we are finding out more and realizing that change is eminent either by proactive involvement or by choosing denial and some really ugly consequences as "We can and we must do better than this" Dr Suess.