- Posted by: Elizabeth Redmond
- Category: Design, Events, Fashion Design, Furniture, education, petting zoo
Ecolect + MoSS
This past weekend was the first year edition of MoSS- Museum of Sustainable Style in Chicago. MoSS is an exhibition of sustainable fashion and furniture that highlights the reality that one does not have to sacrifice style for the environment. Curated by Pivot boutique owner, Jessa Brinkmeyer, the exhibit was created to run in parallel with Fashion Forward Chicago, Chicago’s fashion week.
It was the first Ecolect + MoSS collaboration. Ecolect was invited to curate a sustainable materials Petting Zoo focusing primarily on the fashion and furniture design industries. We highlighted materials such as hemp linen, faux biodegradable leather, Geami packaging, LoVo paint, and a sorghum surfacing material. The MoSS exhibit was designed as a self-guided tour. First, buyers and fashionistas walked through to learn about the garments, the designers, and the story behind each designers decisions. Then they ended up at the Petting Zoo with hands on experience to the materials themselves and corresponding material information.
Saturday afternoon MoSS hosted a panel discussion moderated by Jonathan Shaun of Connect and 3.Zero, and on it sat Natural Living Expert and TV show host Sara Snow; fashion designer Lara Miller, Brentano founder Iris Wang, and Green Exchange founder Barry Brusak. The panel conversation highlighted the importance of our decisions as consumers to make responsible purchasing decisions.
In all, we taught viewers the importance not only of the end result but of the importance of sourcing decisions, transportation and packaging decisions, and all the associated design decisions that make sustainability a vital Pivot point.
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on October 7th, 2008 at 9:29 am
india contact interested
on October 7th, 2008 at 9:43 am
sorry, kids– you WILL have to sacrifice for the environment
the best way to help mother earth is to STOP CONSUMING: reuse, recycle, reduce
thanks for the forum, Ecolect
on October 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Good work, Ecolect and MoSS. One more voice for reason in a land of over-consumption and out-of-the-park debt. Our attempts to reuse, recycle and reduce not only help to sustain the physical environment but also help the “soul” environment of the our country and this world as we Americans try to get back to being givers instead of borrowers and takers.
on October 7th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
We use Moss fabric to install walls for CES 2008. They were amazing! We are reusing them for 2009 CES show! Recycle!