Meet Raena Lim and Chris Halim, the Singaporean couple who are changing the fashion rental game Alexandra Wagner August 13, 2021 Designers, Features, Lifestyle, MESSFashion, News, Sustainability, Sustainablefashion As many major fashion brands move into (or try to, anyway) a more sustainable stage of their lifespans, fashion rental brands are slowly but steadily catching up. One particular start-up called Style Theory is...
Ethically Conscious Fashion Brands That Are Hitting the Style Mark Eve Rowena August 10, 2021 Designers, Designers, Lifestyle, MESSFashion, Style, Sustainability, Sustainablefashion, Trends, Women Conscious fashion has come a long long way. A few years ago, ethical fashion- particularly vegan- instantly meant ugly. I’m including both brands that refer to themselves as vegan and ones that label themselve...
Julia Haart: From Fundamentalist Housewife to CEO of Elite World Group & Changing the Face of Fashion From the Inside Eve Rowena July 30, 2021 Designers, Designers, Fashion Weeks, MESSFashion, News, Style This month, Netflix released their new reality series ‘My Unorthodox Life’, following the life and story of Julia Haart and her family. Julia’s story is incredible. As someone who only left the world of fundam...
Serotoninn – Lena Stepanenko Eve Rowena July 10, 2021 Designers, Designers, Features, MESSFashion, News, Style, Trends, Women Serotoninn is a young womenswear brand based in Ukraine. The brand was launched in 2018 by young designer Lena Stepanenko. She was born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine. After studying medicine she moved to Germ...
The Art of The Virtual Human Bethany Chandler July 7, 2021 Artists, Creativity, Designers, Features, MESSFashion Often the thought of digitalised, heavily filtered, reality-altered figures can lend way to a discussion on self-imaging issues and body dysmorphic tendencies. After all, we live in a world dictated by the likes of Instagram where Photoshop and beauty filters are rife. Surely encouraging another, heightened, level of digital humanisation will only further this issue? Perhaps, this argument is too simplistic.
Triple Threat: an interview with Dutch film director, fashion designer and nail artist Chloë van der Klaauw Alexandra Wagner July 2, 2021 Artists, Be Featured, cinema, Designers, Designers, film, Interview, London, MESSFashion, Photographers, Stories, Style, Sustainability, Sustainablefashion, Trends, Women We recently sat down with Chloë van der Klaauw, founder and designer of Studio Henriette Christine, an ethical, slow fashion brand that has caught many influencers' attention since its online launch in 2020. O...
Digital fashion and NFTs – here to stay? Alexandra Wagner June 20, 2021 Designers, Designers, History, MESSFashion, News, Shows, Sustainability, Sustainablefashion, Trends Digital fashion has taken high fashion brands by storm, and inevitably so, the rest of the world as well. Being a highly advanced technological power tool that leaves literally zero carbon footprint, its versa...
Chatting With XFEMINADESIGNS: The Small Business Starting Its Own Sustainable Fashion Revolution Bethany Chandler June 8, 2021 Artists, Community, Creativity, Designers, Designers, Features, Fresh Mess, Interview, MESSFashion, MESSFeature, MESSsubmissions, News, Stories, Style, Sustainability, Sustainablefashion, Trends, Women "Positive representation and love for colour is my inspiration. Growing up a plus sized, mixed race girl in Britain, I felt out of place. I never wore bright colours or patterns in fear of being called out, and assumed that fashion like that wasn't meant for me. I mean, where do you see chubby brown girls in cool clothes in the 90's fashion scene?"
EP 4 WHAT A MESS with Creative Director of Material Experience Center, Eva de Laat Lily Bell May 24, 2021 Community, Designers, Interview, MESSFashion https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SxM7yGj9KJusJ05c240dZ?si=vEzODHr1SQGKcfAG_j8Etg Eva de Laat is the co founder and creative director of Material Experience Centre (MEC) in Shanghai powered by Santoni, Fo...
