Mini Etiquette
Growing Slow Fashion
Winner
Tosca Wyss (1985), Nitya Unju Park (1985)
Tosca Wyss: 60% Mini Etiquette, 20% teacher (patternmaking)
Nitya Unju Park: 60% Mini Etiquette, 20% textile designer (freelance)
Tosca Wyss:
Master Fashion Design, Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin (DE), 2014
Bachelor Fashion Design, FHNW, 2012
Nitya Unju Park:
Bachelor Textile Design, HSLU, 2014
Growing Slow Fashion
2022–2023
Zurich, Berlin (DE)
Collaboration with Rrrevolve and Nudie Jeans
Rrrevolve, Zurich and Sebastian Lanz, Zurich
Clothes
Jacket: 50 × 20 × 80 cm; trousers 1: 72 × 20 × 40 cm; trousers 2: 72 × 20 × 50 cm
Denim fabric
For Nitya Unju Park and Tosca Wyss, upcycling is a necessity, not just an image. They are inspired by what already exists and has become worthless to others. This is how they came to collaborate with Rrrevolve and Nudie Jeans.
Nudie Jeans offers a lifetime repair guarantee on its jeans, but some of the trousers really cannot be salvaged or have never been sold due to a production error. These became the raw material for the collaboration with the Swiss fair fashion retailer Rrrevolve. The designers carefully sorted, cleaned and rearranged 650 pairs of jeans and gave them a new lease of life as unisex patchwork children’s dresses in various shades.
Their production always takes place in close cooperation with a Berlin sewing studio, which ensures short, CO2-saving delivery routes and is therefore time and cost efficient. Together, they want to secure the tailoring trade and local jobs and show that upcycling as an innovative method has the potential to change the textile industry.