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pinja antikainen

LAB university of Applied Sciences

wearable design

Glothes, Sustainable Design, Atelier - Pattern Cutting

Pinja Antikainen is a Helsinki based fashion designer whose work deals with responsible themes. With new innovative textiles, consumer consumption patterns and material production are changing. Equally important is the disposal of textile waste, highlighting each step of the value chain. I believe we can find new ways to use old material. I also think, that a product stained and faded by nature can still be usable, interesting and valuable. I wants to raise awareness of the life cycle of clothing and how we can influence the longevity of a product through our own consumption. In my work I often use zerowaste techniques, against the waste culture. And I want to be involved in designing sustainable products and trying out new ways to change the waste culture. There is still no final solution to the waste culture in clothing and to end the waste culture we can redefine the meaning of "sustainable design".

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the devil's new skin_ Pinja Antikainen

Category: Apparel

Competitions: Nordic Region

I designed a jacket that offers a new idea for the future. Because leather naturally decomposes before it is processed. We could focus on creating treatment agents for leather that would not inhibit the decomposition process. Composting always requires the right conditions to work. So there is no risk of composting occurring in use. This could also find a new target group of users by changing the value chain in a more natural direction. Wouldn’t it feel better to use a jacket knowing that the chemicals would not further contaminate the soil. We are looking for new innovative materials, but alternatively we could upgrade the production of old materials. In this way we can clothe ourselves in a new skin, which gave rise to the idea: the devil’s new skin. From which I drew inspiration for the jacket’s shape and silhouette. The jacket makes use of the pre-cut leather edge shapes, and the trimming waste could easily be put to rot, instead of being burned, if the industry does not make use of trimming waste. If your question would be where the leather goes after cutting, the option already exists. Where the wasted leather is going at the moment. So if the leather were compostable, it would already have a planned path back into nature.

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