On the event of the centennial celebrations of Wageningen College and Analysis (WUR) we have been commissioned to design a chunk for the round ensemble of WUR’s chairman Louise O. Fresco.
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| Louise O. Fresco throughout her speech |
Yesterday was the opening of the tutorial 12 months. Louise Fresco gave the openings speech the place she seemed again on the 100 years of Wageningen College however with emphasis on the longer term. As an alternative of shopping for a brand new outfit for this special day, Louise needed to put on an outfit she may put on with out guilt. That’s why we and different Dutch designers have been invited to create a chunk of sustainable clothes for her.
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| Our silk scarf dyed with micro organism |
THE SCARF
The headscarf actually complimented the outfit. Louise described sporting the headscarf as “the headscarf provides you wings”. Which can be a pleasant reference to the wings the silkworms develop finally.
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| Louise O. Fresco and Mark Rutte with us within the background |
POCKET SQUARE
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| Prime Minister Mark Rutte with our pocket sq. |
THE DRESS
The gown for Louise is designed by Elsien Gringhuis. She is thought for her timeless designs, that are produced in The Netherlands. The gown is product of deadstock silk and designed with stitching patterns the place a minimal quantity of cloth is wasted. The gown additionally didn’t have buttons or zippers.
Aliki van der Kruijs created the print for the material, by portray the silk with residual ink from the digital textile printing trade. Aliki noticed these ink residues on the aspect of the textile printer; a lovely darkish color purple. This leftover ink is generally processed as chemical waste, however Aliki discovered a option to reuse this residual stream and scale back the footprint of the trade.
THE SHOES
Designer Luc Aarts made gold-coloured pineapple leather-based sneakers. Piñatex, as the brand new materials is named, is made from the leaves of pineapples. This by-product of pineapple cultivation is a pure and 100% biodegradable various to leather-based. The gold coating nevertheless isn’t sustainable but. On the last becoming the sneakers turned out to be too free. “We had sadly measured her ft on a sizzling summer season day”, says Luc. That and due to the ungiving traits of the fabric the sneakers ended up too huge ultimately.” Instead, they determined to ornate a pair of Fresco’s personal sneakers with a gold detailed heel of Piñatex.
THE WATCH
The final sturdy element is the watch strap from a vegan leather-based various designed by Iris Houthoff, lecturer in Bio Course of Engineering at WUR and founding father of start-up Mylium. The strap is created from mushroom mycelium, a fungus derived from the Ganoderma lucidum mushroom. In Asia, that mushroom is used to extract a bitter medicinal tea. Houthoff: ‘Mycelium grows on residual flows, hardly consumes water and is handled with innocent chemical substances.’
THE MAKING OF
Watch the video of the behind the scenes making of the round outfit for Louise Fresco.
The outfit was commissioned by: