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This is the best, that's the one. I am Kathleen Tesnakis and I am recycling designer. I am part of the slow fashion movement and the fashion revolution. What that means is we are manufacturing, and designing clothing and accessories in a sustainable way. I fell in love with transforming old garments into new objects.
So right here, this is the process that I call is my painting. Where I take my bits of fabrics and collage them together into these new pieces. You can see this is the beginning of my concept. I'm gonna try to make three sizes of a similar color. But then each one will have different elements. So that's what you see here. There's two blues, two greens, and I have the accent, the top, this part.
She is hand cutting the pieces. There is no other way to do this. It's just like hand cutting. And each piece has to be inspected and marked accordingly. And this actually allows us to really inspect the level of quality of everything that we're putting together. Right now it's being laid on the trays for sewing.
Being able to be a product with a message that enriches people's lives, gets passed down in families, gives me so much joy. When I walk into my studio that's what I feel. And that's how the clothing is made. And that's the intention we're putting into the world.