How much is your shirt?

I watched a swedish documentary today, it was fairly briefly about the textile industry. It's astonishing how cotton is one of the most popular fabrics and yet it is the least sustainable crop. For every 1 kg clothing we buy there is 1 kg of chemicals from pesticides, dyeing and varying treatments! Surely there must be loads of chemicals left in the clothes when we buy them, affecting us as well, but on a much smaller scale.

The chemicals and pesticides trickles down and pollute the groundwater supplies making it directly poisonous for drinking. However the people living in these areas have no choice but to drink it even though it leave them with cancer and congenital disorders.

This isn't directly big news but it made me think about my collection and how I, as far as I can, want to avoid cotton, and if I do use it I'll make sure it's sourced either secondhand or organically (even though there is pesticides involved there too).

Tanked up fishies

There was a day when I went all the way to the other end of London; Peckham where Horniman museum is. They have a free aquarium so I don't have to throw up those painful 16 squids as they charge at London Aquarium.. I was surprised of how much they managed to cram into that small space. It was good though, got some inspiration, and some 'on the spot drawings'. However I should have anticipated the fact it was a friday afternoon and all parents living in the area took their little kiddies for an outing.

Gosh, here we go!

Hmm what have I gotten myself into? Keeping a sketchbook online for everyone to see, all in the name of internet revolution..

Briefly what I'm doing then; this is my last term in uni, fashion and textiles, we're doing our final collections. Now I'm the kind of person who's conventional sketchbook will look really boring, empty,thin and very childlike. Those massive A3 white pages scares the shit out of me (and the black ones was apparently worst), So I tried an A4 plastic sleeve variation, it worked all the better, but still, I'm not quite happy. So here we go a sketchbook in the format of a blog! I mean most of my information comes from the internet anyways so then I can save my pennies on printing (and some trees too) in the process!

So, for the last collection we may choose whatever theme we like, which seems great. If you didn't choose a theme which covers more than 70% of our earth; the ocean.. To let you know, Apart from fashion and all things pretty (also pink(!) ), I have a great passion for the sea and everything consumed by it. I'm also very concerned of the fact that if we're carrying on fishing like we are, there won't be much of a living ocean for us to enjoy.





This is the theme board I made to show my theme, the feel and somewhat the colours I'll use. I'm absolutely convinced that all of this will change during the course of time, but hey! It's a start!