RE:SKIN II 👁 25 | | 2026-01

Summary: Fashion is in a massive sustainbility crisis. One possible path is to rethink how we perceive already exisiting textile as a resourcce, how we shift the creation of fashion, the repair and modification of our exisiting clothing – in perspective with elegance, style and beauty. As artists and designers, we need to transform our perception of beauty first and create new, desireable goods, that differ from fast fashion and toxic multinational shareholders.

Means:
stacking of local textile ressources / shared ressources / mindset, that values textiles as redesignable ressource, not as disposable item
local redesign, local sewing and fashion making skills + infrastructure

workflow

collection of used textiles in good condition. local storage. local harvest.

local materials available

outfit generation based on available ressources

generative outfit based on the material collection


speculative sewing pattern – This step can be done with AI generative models in a sketch like approach: as there is almost no precise training data, that connects photo information with cutting patterns, this is almost speculative. With proper trained models, this can reach a pretty precise level of detail.

speculative sewing pattern

NEEDED In THE EQUATION:

machines needed > variation of outfit based on local machine availability
skills needed > variation of outfit based on local availability in skills

SKETCHES

RE:SKIN II