First Collection
Welcome to our project!
We are Natacha, Natalya, Marine, Melissa, Ilham, Dario and Pauline, seven students in the Master Fashion and Textile at the Aix-Marseille University. We come from different countries and regions and are united with one objective: the will to create and to discover.
It is this desire for creation and entrepreneurship, as well as the inspiring workshop with Pascale Gatzen in our University, professor at the Parsons School in New York, who inspired us to create the brand “Together in Colors”.
Together in Colors’ objective is to create its first fashion collection. A colorful and sustainable collection, which represents the values we would like to wear:
• Ecological and Ethical: because we want to offer an alternative to fast-fashion by offering durable clothes that respond to the environmental and social issues that the fashion industry meets today.
• Innovative and Creative: because for the first time, students, specializing in fashion management, embark on the challenge of creating a collection based on recycling, exchange, sharing the total freedom of inspiration.
• Diverse: our team brings together 5 different nationalities (German, French, Moroccan, Portuguese and Peruvian) and is composed of entrepreneurial and creative profiles: it is this diversity that is our greatest strength.
We can now go into details and present step by step the progress of our project:
In January 2017, following a seminar on “making sustainable fashion” and our visit to the Who’s Next fair in Paris, we embarked on this beautiful project.
First we created our brand “Together in Colors” and chose our slogan: “Sustainable Fashion Movement”. We are therefore very pleased to present a colorful and energetic brand, which calls for the gathering of all our skills and inspiration.
Shortly afterwards, we started looking for trends. This stage enabled us to determine 2 main themes, from which we will draw our style inspiration:
The MEDITERRANEAN theme :
– Inspired by: seasides, mosaics, Morocco, sand, earth, minerals, rocks, beaches, seashells.
– Color range: blue, white, turquoise, mint, sand and green.
The LATINO theme :
– Inspired by: flowers, Frida Kahlo, tropics, volumes, superposes, embroideries, ruffles, joy, music, energetic colors.
– Color range: red, yellow, fuchsia, turquoise, violet, orange.
Our collection will consist of 6 pieces, which we are already looking forward to presenting to you. In the meantime here is a small preview of the sketches in progress:
Together in Colors is also 100% Made in Marseille (handmade by us) and local sourcing. We wish to design our collection by giving a second life to fabrics coming from different sources:
Our objective is therefore to limit to the maximum the purchase of new materials and textiles because being trendy and modern also means to be able to transform and reinvent.
We intend to seek the help of the fashion brands established around Marseille, proposing to them to design the “new” with the “old”. We also want to inspire ourselves from our own wardrobe and local thrift stores.
For the “Accessory” part we want to redesign wood, shells, etc. So many resources that surround us and that wait for one thing: to be used for inspiration!
Throughout the project we will be advised and supported by our very dear godmother Pascale Gatzen, founder of the “Friends of Light” working cooperative established in New York. Her academic approach, her experience and her analysis on fashion represent an immense asset to the structure of our project and design of our collection.
At the end of the collection we will realize a lookbook allowing us to present our collection and share it with many people!
Our work will then be presented at the beginning of June 2017 at the “ANTI-FASHION” event organized by Aix-Marseille University. An event that brings together international actors from the world of fashion to reflect together on the future of this sector and on future consumption patterns.
We therefore look forward to your support in completing this project. A project based on our ambition to propose a Sustainable Fashion Movement.
We believe that today’s fashion needs to be re-invented in depth: the Together in Colors collection is an initiative that proves that mass consumption is not a fatality and that it is possible to create without exhausting.
The funds raised will be essential to launch our collection and will be used to finance the following:
– 200 € will make it possible to supplement the raw materials recovered, by purchasing cloth and sewing accessories.
– 150 € will be used to finance the realization of our lookbook.
– 100 € will contribute to the financing of the collection photo shooting.
– 50 € will be for the payment of the Ulule commission.
And what if we collect more?
If we should achieve to collect more than the asked budget we hope that with this money we can pass on this project to the coming year of fashion students at Aix-Marseille University. We would like to pass on the brand “Together in Colors” to the next generation of Master students so that they can express and develop their creativity and know-how with this group.
About us :
Mail: togetherincolors@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Together-in-Colors-394019704300664/
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