Wearing nothing new

wearing nothing new

Practise and indepth research- field research

Jessi Arrington is a founder and owner of WORKSHOP, a designer firm in Brooklyn. Her favorite color is rainbow and her default answer is YES. She’s taught Design Fundamentals at Touro College and given guest lectures at NYU; she's a board member of AIGA/NY. Before co-founding WORKSHOP, she carried out branding for Brooklyn Brewery, Tomato Records and Lion Brand Yarn under the direction of Milton Glaser. She makes a hobby of wearing nothing new (except undies).


This talk is interesting to my research because it confirms that it is possible to re use items that otherwise will go in the rubbish and will make more rubbish. This talk is about sharing and community. I specially like the fact that she mentions she will donate her clothes after she leaves the place because this way she is not only being a responsible consumer but also she is  being an example for those consumerist who get very attached to their purchases. 

I will relate this to is to My recycling habits and lifestyle. I am not very much into fashion but I always make the most out of my items. The first is a follow up of the reuse of a paint bucket and the second one is an experiment that I have been doing for a few weeks and it is about recycling plastic containers such as plastic bottles.

The experiment installation seems to have been a success because most people has been disposing their rubbish on the bucket and so this bucket that once was rubbish is now a useful item for the community of students of MIT. 

The second experiment is to reuse a coke bottle as much as I can. I already have had this bottle for over 3 weeks and it still looks like new.