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This is our second edition, and it’s about making. More and more people around us are sewing, repairing and building things again, and we wanted to understand why. So this time we tell the stories of people who never stopped: makers who still do things by hand, slowly and with care.
In our title story, Mirjam Smend sets out to answer that question. The more screens and AI shape our days, the more we seem to long for a result we can actually hold. And once you have sat at a potter’s wheel yourself, you look differently at the people who really know how. She introduces four of them, in Munich, Malaga, Münsterland and Porto.
You’ll meet Aistė and Tadas, who have felted shoes in Lithuania since 2014 with wool, hot water and olive-oil soap. You’ll visit an atelier in the Netherlands where people the job market had passed over sew bags and laptop sleeves from apple leather and wool felt. We look at what upcycling can do and what it can’t. Mirjam explains why, after sixteen years in fashion journalism, she no longer wants more, only the right things. And there are styling ideas for the weeks between summer and autumn.
And at the end, you’ll spend an afternoon with us in front of the camera of an old friend of Zachi’s family.
We hope you enjoy it.
The renaissance of making
On the people who don't simply launch products, but make things. And on why, right now, we find ourselves longing for their work again – so much that we have started making things ourselves.
Small on purpose: what upcycling can and can't do
Upcycling will never fix the waste problem. Too slow, too small, too dependent on whatever happens to be thrown away. We think that is exactly what makes it worth looking at, and we went looking for the people doing it well.
The In-Between Edit
Styling ideas for the weeks between summer and autumn.
My idea of (sustainable) fashion
Why, after sixteen years in fashion journalism, I no longer want more. I want the right things. On favourite pieces, numbers that won't be argued away, and a word I spent years looking for.
Read by people who care how things are made.
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