Why DIY skate fashion is having a moment. London photographers Lola + Pani shoot streetcast models in Loutre, Pure Terror, Slacker City, YouthQuake and more as we delve into the trend:
, and the industry at large, in the “traditional” way. It also echoes that timeless narrative of cool kids doing it for themselves, making the things they want to exist, and infiltrating the mainstream from the margins. They are coming in “through the backdoor”, in the words of Lukas Kacevičius who designs under the name of Pure Terror. Lukas takes old, unwanted and discarded clothes from the street and turns them into his own designs. He doesn’t buy fabrics but reuses what people chuck away.
There’s also Mariah Turner, and her project, Ms. Maskie, through which she reuses old fabrics to create unique balaclavas for people. “Upcycling is a kind of metamorphosis of the garment. A phoenix from the ashes of an ugly sweater,” she says. “My process is intimate and very time consuming. I think the creation of my work is closer to a conversation than that of a business transaction, and that’s quite special.
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