BEAUTY: Interior Design--Lolita Eipprova Café & Patisserie

Andrej Mercina, director of the Slovenian architectural firm TRIIIJE has created an arresting, immersive project in the town of Ljubljana. In collaboration with visual artist Jaša Mrevlje-Pollak, Lolita Eipprova Café & Patisserie is a hymn to age, texture, recycled materials, and a sense of the hand-drawn and handmade. The team left exposed the masonry walls full of cracks, stains, peeling plastering and chipped corners and added original tiles that were found in the basement of the building along with extra parquet flooring on the walls and mirrors sourced from other construction sites. The team even shopped at flea markets and thrift stores to find vintage plates and tea cups. Dead stock textiles were used for drapery panels and upholstery on minimal banquettes. And vintage bentwood Thonet chairs were sourced in a variety of stains. I really love the heavily plastered and striated walls in the hallway to the cave-like restrooms. But the most beautiful element in the entire project is the wall treatment, looking as if an artist sketched all over with pastels and charcoal, doodling florals, plants, and meaningful phrases in a beautiful natural color palette. The result is like sitting inside a life-sized version of an artist's sketchbook. Just lovely.

https://www.kaval-group.si/lolita-eipprova
https://www.triiije.com/
http://www.jasha.org/

"Fibreshed: Reconnecting Fashion to Farming"

This video is not from a specific designer or about a collection, but it is about a very special, important topic: sustainable clothing. Presented as part of Digital London Fashion Week, this mini-documentary raises awareness of where clothing can come from, a connection to the earth, and a sustainable way forward in terms of the industry.

South West England Fibreshed is part of a global movement of local initiatives reimagining the way that we make and wear our clothing.

By reconnecting ‘fashion’ with farming, we are building bioregional systems for clothing production that can nourish, rather than exhaust, our communities and biosphere.

Between January and March 2021 Fibreshed director Emma Hague and filmmaker Hatty Bell went on the road to meet some of our local fibre farmers and processors in the South West of England, and better understand the natural fibre industry that lies on our own doorstep.

“Your clothes are an agricultural act – by purchasing and wearing you are voting for the agriculture you do or don’t want to see in the world, and depending on how your clothes break down, you’re either feeding microbes, or you’re leaving a world of plastic pollution.

Rebecca Burgess - Fibershed Founder