The Power of Collaboration

PHOTO CREDIT ANNA MEETS X

2019 Finalist Anna Schuster took part in the opening event of the Fashion for Good x Redress Design Award 2019 Exhibition and 2020 Launch event, where she presented her modern looks for men, made with various techniques such as patchwork and crochet in discussion with Christina Dean and sustainable lifestyle expert Marieke Eyskoot. After co-founding JOA, an outerwear brand designing out of post-consumer waste, and participating in the design collective ARNT, a womenswear brand creating clothes made out of interior textile waste, Anna’s latest project is ANNA MEETS X. Featured at NEONYT Berlin in January 2020, this innovative concept aims to create unique sustainable design strategies from collaborations with artists and creatives from other disciplines. The work challenges the designer to think beyond conventional design processes and aesthetics and to create garments that bear real value and quality and that connect closely and fundamentally with people and place. Collaborations so far have included a community of knitters in a retirement home, a watchmaker, a graphic designer and a social media creative. Watch this space.

Find out more about Anna Schuster here.