MIND: THE REGENERATIVE FASHION STORE
SAT 14 – SAT 28 FEBRUARY
SHOPPING
MIND: The Regenerative Fashion Store (MIND) is a curated shop featuring emerging Australian brands creating artisanal pieces using circular and regenerative design practices. Brimming with innovation, each designer creates through methods of circularity: reconstruction, shredding, dyeing, overprint, knit and crochet, using remnant, dead-stock and second-hand materials and garments. Some designers use traceable and considered materials such as Econyl or Tarndie 100% Polwarth wool. Each curated brand pushes the boundaries of circularity and utilises their unique methods into your new favourite pieces.
Regenerative fashion supports circularity in fashion design through up-cycling materials that would otherwise be discarded (Made Trade 2023). Australia currently contributes over 200,000 tonnes of clothing to landfills every year (Seamless 2024). MIND encourages considered engagement with and reflection on our relationship with clothing and textiles.
Visit MIND and discover garments, bags, jewellery, accessories and art pieces created by designers and brands shaping the future of Australian fashion.
Launch night on Saturday 14 February. Store open daily from Sunday 15 February. Details below.
Lygon Court, Shop 13-14, 380 Lygon Street, Carlton
Free to attend. No booking required.
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Launch Night: Saturday 14th 6pm-10pm
Store Open Daily: Sunday 15th Feb – Saturday 28th 10am-6pm
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Accessible for wheelchair users
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Poppy Somers is a designer and artist who uses discarded garments and textiles, and natural materials to create pieces that reflect on human-environment interactions. Her practice explores ways to embed political activism into design, investigating the representational qualities of garments and materials.
Poppy is a graduate of RMIT Bachelor of Fashion Design (Honours) 2023, with her graduate collection being featured in Melbourne Fashion Week Student Collections Runway 2023. She has exhibited works in Brunswick Street Gallery, Burrinja Climate Change Biennale and Melbourne Design Week. Poppy is the founder and organiser of MIND: The Regenerative Fashion Store, a not-for-profit event which supports Australian emerging designers working in the circular fashion industry.
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For more information, please contact the event organiser:
MIND: The Regenerative Fashion Store
poppysomers02@gmail.com