Timo Rissanen: Fashion Creation Without Fabric Waste Creation

This blog documents the progress (and occasionally not) of my PhD, commenced in late 2004. I'm investigating fashion creation without fabric waste creation through design practice. The views expressed here are my personal opinions, and do not represent those of any organization I may work for or be otherwise involved with. Copyright Timo Rissanen 2006-2011

Sunday, June 29, 2008

bad dogs: exhibition invite

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Thursday, June 05, 2008

exhibition!

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The date of my exhibition opening will be Thursday July 31. Put it in your diary. I have. I won't get into how that makes me feel (exce...
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Sunday, June 01, 2008

turtle run

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The project is keeping me from posting, and this is even more off-topic than usual, but definitely worth a post. August 10 will see my fourt...
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Saturday, May 24, 2008

on plastic bottles and water

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Operation Migration's blog is part of my daily routine. A May 24 entry is a reprint of an article by Dr David Suzuki and Dr Faisal Mool...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

it's here!

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I met Janet Hethorn nearly three years ago in Denmark, where she asked me if I'd be interested in contributing a chapter to a book she w...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

feel my pain

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This is how I'm feeling about the literature on practice-led research in design at the moment: And to describe how my methodology chapte...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Katherine Hamnett sample sale

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From today through the weekend. The email directed to her website and HerSpace for more details but I couldn't find any, so here they ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

polyester recycling and plastic bottles

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Before I got a permanent bottle for water, I was averaging buying one or two bottles of water a month. It wasn't too bad considering I d...
Monday, May 12, 2008

misc.

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Another "eco-fashion" blog and I can't not link, nor shut up about it: "Evergreen Effect" . I get immediately suspic...
Sunday, May 11, 2008

future of fashion?

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A Google alert (a glert?) took me to Andrea , upset her design was not a finalist in Seventeen's Design Contest . While I sympathise, I ...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

terrorisms

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Browsing through the Environment section at the Sydney Morning Herald, I came across Miranda Devine's terrifying account of the horror...
Monday, May 05, 2008

clarifying the terminology: research involving (design) practice

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After a meeting on Friday, my focus at the moment is the methodology chapter and in particular the issue of rigour in practice-led research....
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

reviewing the reviews

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[Amended later, with big thanks to Helen from Sassybella : Patty Huntington is blogging over here . Thank goodness.] Well, not really [this ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

a few good distractions

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Then it gets sillier . No comment - I won't pick on this any further. The Sydney Morning Herald's coverage of RAFW is indexed here ...
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

lazy?

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This sums up the past four days as far as the thesis goes: What was I doing? Like that saint whosiwhatsit, I was summoning the birds, of cou...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

things that made me laugh while in melbourne

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Yeah, I know, I was there almost two months ago, but I was tidying up my albums now so here they are. Seen on the street when I caught up wi...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Earth Pledge FutureFashion revisited

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Just linking to an excellent post by Jill Danyelle (she of fiftyRX3 fame and of danyelle.org ) about the show, quite passionately pointing...

while reading a manual for aspiring fashion designers...

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...I feel compelled to point out that a garment will rarely contain one of these: It might include a yoke, however: (If you do know of a dec...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

long leg panty girdle

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When I first heard of Mara Havinoviski's 'Patterns for Fabric Economy' (1969) , I got very excited. A trawl through the websites...
Monday, April 21, 2008

still on copying

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Still on the issue of copying/interpreting/adapting other people's ideas, I had a chat with a friend yesterday. She started a new job so...
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Timo Rissanen
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Fashion designer, PhD candidate (UTS). After 14 great years in Sydney Australia, now in NYC.
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