Have you ever wondered what is the opposite of fast fashion and how the concept of "design for longevity," focused on creating enduring fashion pieces with lasting interactions, embodies this alternative approach?
Noorin Khamisani is a designer, educator, and researcher with a focus on sustainability and circularity in fashion practice. She has designed and produced her label Outsider since 2009 and offers bespoke consultancy services, lectures, and workshops in fashion design for sustainability.
"The opposite of fast fashion is fashion for longevity. The idea of design for longevity is to create something that can last a long time and have a longterm interaction with someone."
- Noorin Khamisani
Noorin Khamisani is currently coordinating the Fashion Design concentration at DIDI, working on curriculum design, developing project briefs, delivering studio, workshop, and lecture classes. Last year she exhibited a collaborative wearable technology project at Dubai Design Week, Di-Res Responsive Wearables. Currently facilitating an exciting collaboration with Expo 2020, where a group of students takes part in designing costumes for the Al Wasl Opera.
"I really like the idea of creating garments that can be shared by different community groups of people, not limited to biological families. I find it very interesting for decentralizing the experience and consumption of fashion in this way. I'm actively searching for a more collaborative fashion design project that promotes collaborative authorship in fashion design. I believe that collectively consuming fashion might also encourage the idea of co-creating fashion as teams, rather than relying solely on a single grand designer figure."
- Beata Wilczek
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Host: Beata Wilczek
Guest: Noorin Khamisani
Music: SKY H1
Production: Julia Kąkolewska
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