STORIES ABOUT GREEN COTTON
Katharine Hamnett is a famous british fashion designer also very engaged in sustainability issues in the fashion industry - see the video below where she talks about why she does what she does.
KH was also the designer who made the first GREEN COTTON ORGANIC COTTON t-shirt which you can see below here.
The first ORGANIC COTTON TSHIRT - at least as far as I know....design Katharine Hamnett
See this video where charismatic Vivienne Westwood talks about why the transition to a more suatainable fashion world is needed.
The O2 NEW WAYS expo was in The SEIBU YARAKCHO departmentstore once placed in this very prominent building in the Ginza district in Tokyo. The store closed in 2010.
Photo: Per Morten Abrahamsen
O2 was orginally founded by me and a group of friends most of us at that time living in Milan. O2 was a kind of reaction towards all the superfluous design stuff that we were part of making at all the various design studioes we were working for.
O2 got rather famous due to various events and exhibitions and after some years of activity I was approached by at that time the biggest and most fashionable and prestigious departmentstore chain SEIBU. The company wanted to present the latest trends from Europe - and that was us as O2 showing new eco-concepts - concrete projects and wild dreams about how we could live more "green".
The expo was called O2 NEW WAYS and of course was a BIG success - we got lots of press nationally as well as internationally as being probably the first real eco or green design exhibition in the world. And of course we needed merchandise for this project and what was more obvious than asking NOVOTEX to make thirts for us from some of the first organic cotton ever mass produced. We had a series of numbered tshirts made sold at a horrible price and for some reason only made in XL - which ment that the poor japaneese basically could use them as tents...so not that many were sold, but they created a lot of attention on fashion, organic cotton etc.
A view of part of the O2 NEW WAYS exhibition - placed everywhere in the Seibu store in the midst of global luxury brand out-lets.
The O2 NEW WAYS organic cotton tshirt made for the exhibition in Seibu in Tokyo, Japan
