Sustainable Fashion Designed
by Marina Toeters (some quotes)
by Helen Gras, Amsterdam, Trend Resaercher

After seeing the symposium ‘Beyond Green’ in Amsterdam last November, it is interesting to see what kind of initiatives exist in our world today. The conclusion of the symposium was:
‘Fashion designers have to look carefully at technical development and collaborate with technicians by getting their designs produced, for a more sustainable future. We can't use the words 'green', 'eco' and 'organic' too much because they will become meaningless.’

I approached Marina Toeters at the Modafabriek, Amsterdam. She graduated cum laude from her Masters degree in Fashion Design in Utrecht last year. For her graduation project, which took an entire year to complete, she worked together with various technical companies and universities. She created a collaboration platform for technicians and fashion designers to motivate them to liquidly fuse together and start interdisciplinary projects with added benefits to society. Her vision is that fashion will become innovative again and can take responsibility for environmental issues, by the implementing fashion technology on the commercial market.
Here’s a look at her inspiring work:
The Triangled Coat [...] The Tecatud Raincoat [...] The Fire Fighter Suit [...]

Marina Toeters now works as freelance intermediare and develops concepts, presentations and brainstorm sessions. She works for (technical) company’s that want to work with new materials or for designers that are looking new process innovation. For more information, see by-wire.net