Are self-sewn clothes more sustainable than the ones out of fast fashion stores? I love to design and sew my own clothes. When I am working at a new project, that's the one thing in my life where I forget time and space. It happens that I sit down at 5 pm and then stop... Continue Reading →
The True Materialist
We are a society of Materialists. A sentence most of us heard more often than once. Especially when you are living in the global north, there is a never ending pile of things one could need and want and buy and carry home in bags and receive in parcels. This lifestyle also shows in the... Continue Reading →
From Stuff to Things
When Christoph first brought forward the proposal to sell a great part of our furniture, I was taken aback and refused this unimaginable thought. What should happen to all our stuff? In my head I saw a flat where everything is lying around on the naked floor. Stacks of T-shirts, books, clutter, in front of empty walls. But I love that he gave this impulse of change, like a rush of cold water hitting you unprepared and waking you up to the bones. I guess I really needed it in my life right now. Break up those old thoughts and those rusty brain clusters...