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Here we post related notes & links about Lyric Couture & others working in the re-fashion mode. Currently you will find:
1. Sewing classes offered.
2. Lyric Couture featured in "Altered Couture" magazine, Nov. 2007 & Feb. 2008.
3. Re-Fashion Fests.
4. A cool place (link)
5. Wendy Skinner writes about "Re-imagine Style"
6. Wendy Tremayne's international, Swapo-rama-rama phenomenon
7. Awards for Lyric Couture
1. We're offering a series of SEWING workshops in the LC studio, to get your own creative juices (and skills) going: June 7, 08: Get to know your machine.
Aug. 9: Basic hand stitching. Sept. 6: How to use a
pattern. Oct. 4: How to choose & use fabrics. Nov. 1:
How to use old clothes to make new ones. Workshops are 9-11 AM
and cost $10. Call for details: 603-835-6783.
2. You'll find another Lyric Couture
piece in the upcoming (summer 08) issue of "Altered Couture" as well as
the two previous issues. Note: One shirt dress pictured in
the fall 07 issue has the wrong instructions for it. Contact me
if you want the right ones.
3. DO YOU WANT TO HOST A RE-FASHION FEST?
Look for info on an upcoming one at Main Street Arts, summer 08.
Sample flyer (for the recent one in Keene, NH for Earth Day):
REFASHION FEST--APRIL 21, 2008
An event at Keene State College, 1:00 - 5:00
Followed by a FASHION SHOW at 5:00!
It’s a fashion spree of a different color:
creative & ecological--and FUN!
TRANSFORM, reconstruct, OR RE-FASHION unwanted old clothes
RIGHT ON THE SPOT!
Learn how to re-imagine & REWORK what you have
to rejuvenate what's out of shape, out of style, stained or just blah. . . .
AND GO HOME WITH ARMLOADS OF "NEW" CLOTHES!
We'll provide instruction, inspiration, samples,
sewing machines & supplies
to alter, repair and embellish your old duds (& new finds).
No sewing ability required.
Cost for instruction & LOTS of newly created clothes to take home:
$5.00 + 1 - 2 BAGS OF OLD CLOTHES
CALL 603-835-6783 IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.
Note: If you know a good site to host a Re-Fashion Fest or a Swapo-Rama-Rama near you, let me know.
4. Check out http://www.eco-artware.com
for gifts & creative inspiration from people making NON-clothing
things out of recycled, reused & natural materials.
5. Excerpt from Wendy Skinner & Valerie Rockney's www.reimaginestyle.com:
Changing
the way we acquire clothing is one of the easiest ways to personally
contribute to a more sustainable planet. The problems plaguing the
conventional fashion, garment, and fabric industries include
sweatshops, toxic manufacturing, heavy pesticide use, and a worldwide
glut of discarded clothing that clogs landfills or, ironically, is
often shipped back to third-world countries only to disrupt local
economies. We believed that a sustainable wardrobe can go hand-in-hand
with personal style and looking one’s best and that re-fashioning can
result in stylish, better fitting, and more becoming clothes than most
off-the-rack purchases.
6.
Swapo-rama-rama: Learn all about Wendy Tremayne's movement to
reuse & renew the mountains of clothes that already exist and LOOK FOR UPCOMING SWAPO-RAMA-RAMA EVENTS NEAR YOU AT WWW.SWAPORAMARAMA.ORG
7. March 2008: Lyric Couture takes more prizes in the Green T contest, including Best Dress in Professional Category.
April 2007: Lyric Couture Designer
Alice B. Fogel wins prize in category of Professional Design for a line
of cotton dresses made of recycled men's shirts.
April 2006 PRESS RELEASE: Designer Alice B. Fogel Takes Multiple Prizes
Earth
Day, April 22, 2006: Valerie Rockney and Wendy Skinner of Ithaca, NY,
announce the winners of Re-Imagine Style’s Re-Fashion Contest, focusing
on making new wearables out of pre-worn clothing for ecological,
economical, and creative purposes. Lyric Couture designer, Alice
B. Fogel of Acworth, NH took FIRST PRIZE for Evening Wear as well as
BEST IN SHOW GRAND PRIZE for her cotton wedding gown made entirely of
recycled fabrics, including 21 tailored men’s shirts. The dress
incorporates all the shirts’ button plackets and shirt-tail hems in its
petal-like tiers, with a multi-tucked tuxedo shirt’s front panels as
the back opening.
Fogel also won several honorable
mentions in categories of Accessories (for a scarf made of sewing
scraps), Teen (for skirts made of recycled T-shirts) and Career/Chic
(for a cardigan made of collaged parts of three sweaters and a strip of
an unwanted skirt).
These pieces and more are available for purchase from Alice Fogel’s
company, Lyric Couture, at select stores in New England, the South
Acworth General Store, Alice Fogel’s studio, or www.lyriccouture.com
[which is where you are right now].
contact:
alice@lyriccouture.com
603.835.6783
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