Design
MAKESHIFT: Shifting Thoughts on Fashion, Craft, and DIY
During New York Design Week, Alabama Chanin organized a series of talks, workshops, and gatherings with leaders in the fashion, design,and craft/DIY communities. The goal was to explore, discuss, and celebrate the role of local production, handmade, and craft/DIY in fashion and design.
- an introduction from Natalie Chanin, founder of Alabama Chanin:
Talk. Meet. Unite. " " Alabama Chanin Alabama ChaninOur conversation for MAKESHIFT is about finding the point where the professional worlds of craft, fashion, design, and DIY intersect. It ...- “Craft” might seem like it’s for the amateurs, and “fashion” for the auteurs. Yet we live in an age where creativity and innovation are increasingly found in collaborations between makers and users, crafters and designers, designers and manufacturers, and in the loosening of the boundaries between them. Open sourcing and the emergence of DIY everything (from apps to dresses to education) are THE design stories of the 21st century. If the philosophers and economists are right, such stories reflect renewed possibilities for building communities, for growing businesses, and for practicing everyday forms of enchantment, ethics, and sustainability. It is time to expand our way of thinking about the relationship between craft and fashion, between the self-made and the ready-to-wear, between fashion as intellectual property and fashion as an open source. What can we learn from the fields of music, product design, and education? Does a backward glance help us see how fashion was at the forefront of these innovations from the start? What is a Vogue pattern if not an open source? What are les petits mains other than artists?
- the schedule:
Past Fashion FutureMakeShift2012-a series of conversations, workshops, and events around hand-craftsmanship for the fashion design industries during ICFF-st...- the first event
- MAKESHIFT: SHIFTING THOUGHTS ON DESIGN, FASHION, COMMUNITY, CRAFT, & DIY
Talk by Roseanne Cash, Natalie Chanin, Catherine Bailey, Maria Cornejo, Jessamyn Hatcher & Andrew Wagner
The Standard, East Village 
Good morning NYC! Tonight @standardny East Village 7pm talk w/ Cathy @heathceramics @rosannecash @zeromcornejo @WagsisSticks + Jessamyn xo
...#makeshift2012 begins tonight! We'll be livetweeting this great event w/ @alabamachanin @heathceramics @rosannecash @zeromcornejo + more!
Following from the sidelines! RT @STC_Craft ...#makeshift2012 begins tonight! We'll be livetweeting this great event...
Another #StandardTalk @StandardEV. It's about DIY with @AlabamaChanin, who else? #MakeShift2012 http://pic.twitter.com/MQG5vpUS- #Makeshift2012 FINALLY sweetly starting w/ @WagsisSticks @zeromcornejo @rosannecash @Jessamyn @heathceramics
- the moderator: andrew wagner [DIY design editor, columnist, director - krrb]
- #makeshift2012 the eloquent @WagsisSticks opens the event with a beautiful quote from Ettore Sottass's essay "When I was a Very Small Boy'
- speaker: rosanne cash [singer/songwriter]
- .@rosannecash is up 1st. Enlisting audience to rewrite "Fair & Tender Ladies" 1st stanza #makeshift2012 instagr.am/p/Kqlkxrzdqk/
- speaker: cathy bailey [heath ceramics]
- "Designing was not enough; it was the *making*, I needed to make something"--Cathy of Heath Ceramics #truth #makeshift2012
