Killing Trends in Fast Product

For her.

For him.

For baby.


“…perhaps we may see this as a kind of adventure, a heroic test: to take the artificialization of living beings as far as possible in order to see, finally, what part of human nature survives the greatest ordeal.

If we discover that not everything can be cloned, simulated, programmed, genetically and neurologically managed, then whatever survives could be truly called ‘human’: some inalienable and indestructible human quality could finally be identified.

Of course, there is always the risk, in this experimental adventure, that nothing will pass the test – that the human will be permanently eradicated.”


Jean Baudrillard. The Vital Illusion, Columbia University Press, 2000:15-16.

Pre-torn Garments Shred Again for Indian Shoddy Market

The large, upright blade rips the garments at the start of the shoddy-making process.

The garment comes from Europe and on entry into the Indian market is ripped as secondhand garments must not be in a sellable state as they enter the country.

This image and documentation of this garment journey, cycle and process is part of Lucy Norris’s exemplary research that culminates in Recycling Indian Clothing (published by Indiana University Press, 2010).

Slow Textiles at the V&A

We are delighted to announce that Slow Textiles Group members, Melanie Bowles and Emma Neuberg are running an exciting and pioneering course at the Sackler Centre, V&A, for 8 weeks in Autumn 2010.

This blends old and new techniques for transforming textiles for apparel and interiors’ applications being mindful of slow and fast processes and methodologies.

The course is inspired by Les Ballets Russes textile designs of the 1910s and 1920s on show concurrently in the galleries.

Check our BLOG for listings.