Fashion Hackers

my book should be arriving today - I can't wait to get cracking on designing some clothes - oooh but I need to get my sewing machine now! lol

yay! i love original fashion, and i especially like reusing stuff that most people see as trash. i didn't know there was a book out there for remaking old t-shirts into new styles... maybe i'll check it out.

I wish i could do things like that! I love the heart top! I might try and make one!

I dig that it promotes a "recycled and reused" concept...
Creativity can be liberating, and it's great to share...
A great project for teens, and kids, but in the grand scheme of things, most of the samples looked fairly nonsensical and vacuous.

This pod did a good job with taking something that is so common and often done and sharing it with others. I never knew there was a whole workshop that went on about t-shirt making. I just grew up with girls on the block who always aspired to be fashion designer, and started out cutting on their tees because they didnt know how to sew just yet. This pod really taught me something new about old information. Also, I thought it worked because it showed step-by-step ways to make some of the shirts and thats cool for the dozens of people that are out there and know nothing of this fashion creation!

i originally said that i didn't like this pod, but i've changed my mind. anything that can be done to reuse something that would normally just be thrown into a trash bag is a good thing, imo.

Know something I find quite odd actually is that I was So very close to moving to SF and launching my line there...as I was deply inspired by everything the city has to offer...from the diverse saturated cultures and style that walk the city leaving it painted on a daily.
I went to SF fashion week, and looked into the designers who have come out fo the city and I realized that with ALL of the talent that comes out of there....nothing is ever done with any of it. Perplexed.
Thank you for the suggestion(i.e Stitch Lounge) I will make my way there most definitely..
I'll be in the city again this coming week for some stylist jobs and....Im looking forward to finding those secrets that make all my thoughts of the citys artistry come to life again! I thank you;)

nice. for local inspiration (if you are in SF) stitch lounge in the hayes is a pretty rad place.

If you buy stuff at the store your chances of running into someone with that same shirt on is endless. But if you hack it up and make it your own, then you won't have that problem! I have shirts that have shrunk into midriff shirts that I prefer not to wear, so this would be good for the T's I love, but for one reason or another don't fit quite the way I want them to anymore.

Great pod!

Exactly the possibilities are endless. And i don't think it's ridiculing a t shirt. You could look at it as a blank piece of paper and your bringing something YOU created to it. Not someone else's creation but YOURS! I do agree though that life is an attitude be it the clothes you wear or the music you listen to. But no one should halt the creativity process, even if it is as elementary as changing something simple like a t shirt.

Oh well like you said it's just a t shirt and there are other things that are more important than clothes. :-)

Awesome!

Great to see people taking their clothes and putting different spins on standards such as shirts to make some killer original items. I bet it's awesome to see how many ideas people will come up with based off a simple t-shirt.

Sure...anythin that stems your creativity is a good thing. I am glad to ear that you felt something from this and it is urging you to go and play with your old shirts. That is not a bad outcome whatsoever. What I was trying to make come off as my entire point is just this:
From the moment you wake in the morning your mind goes to the feeling that comes from within. Call it 'What side of the bed you woke up on' or call it your attitude. It is instilled within you an coming to find that you can cut something with scissors or bedazzle something from an entire event having to be thrown just seems a bit elementary to me. Could be just my personal opinion, but you have a much larger capacity that you put to work that you give no notice to at all.
I though it silly to have someone take something so simple and almost ridicule it.
Hence the title 'Fahion Hackers'. A bit ironic, don't you think?

I find this to be a great way to express yourself and to make something with creativity and originality that does help you express the "inner you" You are absolutely right fashion is an attitude but it should also be about originality and not some "trend." Even if you say t-shirts are "SO" 5 years ago who cares she is giving you a way to be able to express yourself creatively. At least now I can take a t-shirt and make it my own instead of going into a store and buying a $40 shirt that will turn out to be "SO" last week. At least with this book as a tool i can take something i was going to throw away anyway and reinvent it into something that helps express who i am as a person.

T shirts are SO five years ago. Is there REALLY an entire workshop event being held to see "Just How many ways a t-shirt can be Re-done' Are they serious?! Its a good thing they have it ALL the way in Istanbul where they are probably in the height of this "trend" still. Poor innocent Istanbulians, they are kept away from what REAL fashion is all about. Its about an attitude...a full actual thought process(that comes about the minute you roll out of your bed in the morning) that you use to express your inner you. No t-shirt and a pair of scissors is gong to accomplish any of this kids...

I just bought her book after watching this pod and it's very cool and user friendly. Can't wait to start making some new clothes!!!

I kind of wanted to see some of the shirtacular designs on real models. Oh well.