with a production exploring how the answers to waste colonialism can be found through biomimicry and reverence for the Funghi kingdom.
Held at RE/Space, the fourth floor installation space of innovative architectural project BETA by Sth Bnk, created entirely from found and waste materials, audiences will be immersed into a world that bears reverence to nature’s first recyclers – mushrooms, through the continuation of a series designed to ignite all senses through recycled fashion, recycled installation, decolonised beauty, and circular design, created from inhouse and community sourced textile scraps and both food waste, low impact and plant-based dyes. This production is the continuation of a series co-founded by our label and projection artist Simbiotic.Vision.
The show will consist of a durational music performance curated and performed by producer and vocalist Komang in conversation with movement artists and muses- iconic independent artists across Naarm’s dynamic creative artists community alongside agency models represented by our official agency partner Jira Models. The runway hair direction will feature decolonial hairstyles of mycelial inspired textured, afro, and coily styles under direction of Elvies Studios with hair product sponsor Organic Suku, a company that fuses ancient traditions with trichology to create products that support multi-textured hair. The runway will also feature plant based cactus leather accessories by cruelty free artisan label Texcoco Collective.
Vegan and vegetarian catering for all guests included in the ticket purchase will be provided by café and social enterprise Ageyo Coffee. Ushering in the inaugural fungi season, this show will both entertain and educate through the collective exploration of the themes of connectivity, and the cycle of life, death and renewal.
Secure tickets via Humanitix here. We hope you can join us for what will be an incredible collaborative event.
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This holiday season, you can either enjoy 30% off storewide using the code ECAGIFT or you can get a free AQUÃ tote for all orders over $200 using the code ECAGIFTBAG. Don't forget to add the tote bag to the checkout if you are choosing that option!
Find out more via https://ethicalclothingaustralia.org.au/holiday-gift-guide-2023/
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Muses |@melissayvonpham @yves_saint_milad
HMUA | @foxxxystudio
BTS Content & Styling Asst | @anhxhoang
]]>Honoured to have taken part in the insane production team of this powerful performance @melbfringe 'becoming ghosts' as costume and set designer.
Immense gratitude to one of the most talented, visionary and ICONIC movement artists @ate_cheska_ for giving me the opportunity to re enter costume and set design again.
This season we are exploring energy bodies and while i tend to create from the light we are delving into the darkness for this.
Powerhouse team:
Producer @maki.m0use
Composer @nikodim0s
Lighting Designer @nahuiludekens
Stage Manager and Operator @naavikaranm
Stunning promo photography@neszuela
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The child in each of us
Knows paradise.
Paradise is home.
Home as it was
Or home as it should have been...
Yet every child
Is cast from paradise-
Into growth and new community,
Into vast, ongoing
Change." ~ Octavia Butler, Earth Seed: Parable of the Sower.
Ever so often in our moments of reading we pass upon a passage of resonance. The philosophy behind REMUSE has been the idea to reclaim inner musedom, to relish in the journey of continual evolution, to remake oneself irrespective of where one has been.
That has been our guiding force from the very beginning and continues to be our ethos to this day.
This new collection is a continuation and fleshing out of the chapter of MIKÕKO: The Seed, featuring luxurious Tencel lined trench coats, koko dyed corsetry, intentional menswear, and brass hardware detailing.
Drop 1 will be online on remuse.shop on 7.07.2023, which is the Aphelion (the date on which planet Earth orbits the farthest away from the Sun).
In the interim, we look forward to sharing this new chapter with you.
Created with a phenomenal team:
Photographer | Bonnie Jarrett @bonncreativ
Muses | Henrietta Deller- Blue @henriettad_ + Bosun Thomas
HMUA | Gabrielle Bahn @foxiegabe
Styling | Us
Photography @auroradesign @pics_that_pop @_lianahardy @mica_chutrau
Stylist @jessica_jadehunter
Production @seekeragency
Choreography @nadiatornese
MUA @kylieotoole direction with @morphebrushes
Hair @hartandco @curlysiouxsie
direction with @kevin.murphy.australia
Footwear @boohoo
Accessories @culturesse
@melbfashionweek
Model @bella_kasimba @chadwickmodels
Model: @lenna_h_holt
Model: @cinamon_doll
Model: @jennnnyguo @people.agency
Model: @maya.is.my.store @bellamanagement
Model: @atongluala @people.agency
Model: @savannah_kruger @pridemodels
Model: @domanique_hutchins
Model: @chynaraimayo @pridemodels
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This featured series was created in collaboration with Lenapehoking based creatives, photographer Cassandra Williams and models Azza Alshaer and Jay Cruz, photographed in East Williamsburg photo studio, Nula Studios, and we are so honoured to share these images with you.
Additional Collaborations from our Travels (follow us @remusedesigns on instagram + facebook for full credits and sneak peaks):
]]>An Immersive Durational Runway Performance featuring Sustainable Fashion Label REMUSE in partnership with The Social Studio and Simbiotic.Vision taking place at Next Wave Brunswick Mechanics Institute
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land upon which our production will respectfully take place, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
Held at Next Wave Brunswick Mechanic Institute in collaboration with retail partner The Social Studio and projection artist Simbiotic.Vision, we present to you the fourth instalment of PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival Independent Arts production, MICO.22, an immersive presentation paying homage to the funghi kingdom as its role as nature’s recyclers. Taking place on Friday March 4th, 2022 at 7:00pm within the theatre space of Next Wave Brunswick Mechanics Institute, MICO.22 returns as a durational, multisensory performance exploring circularity in kinetic ways.
As a continuation of this series, this year’s production will focus on zero-waste fabric techniques including quilted scrap meterage and recycled fibre textiles with design lines, cuts and shapes informed by the mushroom kingdom. These fabric pieces were created in part during Moreland City Council supported residency Making Space at SiteWorks.
Performances will include a durational soundscape show created and performed by local band BUMPY, improvisational movement by independent dance artists, a central installation created with musician and biodiversity prop creator, Abbey Howlett, and immersive runway movement from models moving throughout the band and installation, featuring REMUSE’s Autumnal Equinox collection and immersive visuals and production curated by Simbiotic.Vision. The complete collection will then be available for purchase via our retail partner The Social Studio at their Collingwood Yards boutique.
Through textile, sonic, and projection biomimicry of the mushroom kingdom, we aim to submerge a select live audience into the world of funghi, reuse, endings and new life.
Complimentary vegan and gluten free mushroom catering will be provided by local caterer, sogobri.
Limited live seating and livestream ticketing will be available via Eventbrite. All guests attending the live presentation must be fully vaccinated, wear a face mask indoors, and be able to provide a certificate of vaccination, according to Victorian health regulations.
For more information, please contact:
Tamara Leacock
]]>Featured alongside phenomenal slow fashion design talents: Arnsdorf, búl, ELK, Gorman, Grace Lillian Lee, SISTER STUDIOS and SZN.
We also have some very special accessory designers who will be featured alongside our collection! To be announced very soon! X
Tickets available here: Aquarium Runway - Melbourne Fashion Week 2021
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Clothing: Romance Was Born
Clothing: Verner
Campaign credits
@melbfashionweek
Photographer and Model: Atong Atem @atongatem
Stylist: Cecile Huynh @cecile2k
Hair: Kevin Murphy @kevin.murphy.australia
MUA: Sally Axford @sally_axford
Creative Agency: Studio Round @studio_round
Creative Consultant: Jonnine Standish @jonninestandish
Producer: Grace Dlabik @grace_dlabik @be.onecreative
]]>From 15-24 October, we will be offering 20% off our online store, as part of a nationwide shopping event celebrating resilience as we adapt to this current era of virtual curation.
Please use the code: VOGUE for 20% Off at checkout.
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]]>A Note about Turmeric
Turmeric, a root whose dyeing property derives from curcumin, is a fugitive dye requiring gentle hand washing with pH neutral soap, and drip dry / storage in shade.
As turmeric is traditionally redyed per year, we are now offering special redyeing services for your REMUSE piece. As a way of extending the life of your piece, and developing a more circular approach in keeping with the original practices around the rooe, get in touch for our redyeing rates, options and methodology.
Each Solstice, and Solar Return, offers us yet another opportunity to explore our methods in favour of a gentler impact on our healing Earth.
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Thanks for having us M/FW!
Full Credits:
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Hope you find that special Hand Made to Order piece for yourself or loved one.
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https://www.intitularcreative.com/remuse-designs-collaboration
For this past New Moon, we’ve set the intention of Responsiveness – creating custom pieces tailored to your evolving lifestyles, and adding elements from our range that speak to what is relevant and needed for your wardrobes.
In this, we’ve added a second mask design, the Muse Mask, a larger, more curved Olsen shape mask with metal nosebridge, three layers of Tencel-Linen and a pocket for a filter. Over the past month, this mask was only available via our stockist, Friends of the Earth, a wonderful boutique and ethical cooperative based here in Collingwood. Through popular ask, we’ve added this to our website.
We have also increased the size of our standard Shibori Mask by approximately 50mm and are currently working on a mask for beards.
Please join our mailing list for further updates and offers as we adapt to these changing times.
Much love to you all xx
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Here are some of our favorite portraits @ home. If you have a piece, tag us! We would love to feature you.
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If youre a designer and would love to donate, we are dispatching masks on Monday May 12th and can arrange pick up if more than 20 +.
Thank you for the generous support. Per the request of some of our clients, we have also added select designer masks that we have hand made in our studio on our website to keep you warm and comfortable this winter.
Stay safe everyone.
]]>Wishing everyone a restful Earth Day today. In a series of Natural Dye Tips, I'd love to share one recipe for how to create your own brew of indigo dye - with discarded fruit.
Plant based indigo is a wonderful dye colour that we have used and loved in our designs for a couple of years now. With Pantone declaring "Anti-Anxiety Blue" the colour of 2020, I think more blues in this current global climate is more important now more than ever. Let's integrate more calming, oceanic blue palettes into our interiors, eh? x
An Organic Indigo Vat requires a 1-2-3 ratio of
1 00gx Indigo base material, often ground up indigofera tinctoria plant
2 00gx Alkaline Base in the form of Pickeling Lime, often found in your local garden shop
3 00gx Antioxidant Component in the form of Fructose, which you can also create yourself from discarded fruit and vegetable scraps.
Indigo Dye powder becomes active once the oxygen is essentially activated and then stripped from the dye. This process allows the dye to bond to your fabric and thus create that beautiful colour.
The first step to approaching your organic dye vat is to gather together a large pot (we tend to use a 19 liter pot), gram scale, and a clean heating surface away from food. If using your kitchen, please thoroughly before / after use.
Please also be sure to wear a dust mask, which are generally handy these days all around.
Gather together you 100g indigo dye, 200g Pickeling Lime, and 300g Fructose Powder or home-made syrup in separate containers.
Add 20ml of warm water to your 100g indigo in a small container and massage the powder into a fine paste. This will activate / hydrate the indigo.
In a separate container or mason jar add 500 ml of hot water to 200g of Pickeling Lime.
Then combine the Indigo Powder with Pickeling Lime gently. The Pickeling Lime adds Alkalinity to the Indigo Powder - an essential step in this natural chemical process.
Now prepare yourself for the magic.
Add your final component, the Frucose element and fill the remainder of the mason jar with hot water and leave for about an hour.
The solution, if ready, should have a green-yellow colour, and soon form a "brown flower" or foam at the top of the liquid. At this stage, your solution is read for dyeing on your fabric.
This is a delicate process and may require a few takes to achieve that final reaction but once you do, it is so worth it.
Stay tuned for more tips + stay connected with us online as we share more via our Instagram @remusedesigns.
Stay safe everyone <3
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Many moons ago, we entered this industry as a ethical style blogger in a different city, a different country, and with a different voice.
We'd like to take this moment of global shifting to share more tips, tutorials and other helpful/inspiring news as we all explore this new world together.
As we approach the start of Fashion Revolution Week + Earth Day, we'd like to start sharing tips and tricks for anyone entering the beautiful world of hand dyed textiles.
Tip 001
To maintain the colourfastness of your newly dyed pieces, ensure you submerge them in a bath of:
Submerge overnight + postwash with a low impact, natural detergent.
Take good care everyone. Please stay creative, inspired, safe, and reach out for any support anytime.
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We arrive nonetheless at the end of March with many of the same challenges faced by so many of us today - with closed physical stores, cancelled shows, restrictions, and rationed resources.
We will have to pause our financial fundraising efforts to keep even our digital studio doors open. We nonetheless are formulating free and donation based offerings in the form of natural dyeing workshops online and can create temporary cloth masks free of charge upon request, with our best to accommodate shipping arrangements. Our goal is to be able to support and contribute in a monetary way to dedicated causes, but in a moment of honesty, truth and transparency in our one-womxn operation, we need to pause, restrategize and contribute all that we can at this time.
We do have a list of exceptional organisations who are still active that we would highly recommend a direct donation to.
Thank you for your listening ear, your caring support and your generous heart. We will continue to use our ethical, vegan, low impact, natural and in many ways organic or at least recycled textiles and Ethical Clothing Australia accredited manufacturing processes, and rethinking ways our remnant materials can be helpfully transformed in to items that are in great need at this time (masks, blankets, etc)
We stand with you as we embark on a journey as a planet that in all honestly unsure where it leads, but we are commited to creating and continuing alongside you as best we can.
We firmly acknowledge that our work operates on unceded Wurundjeri country, and that there is no greater time to listen to country than now.
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