Wasted by Desa Potato Head
In 2017, Bali declared a “trash emergency” as extreme quantities of plastic washed up on its seashores. The disaster led Desa Potato Head – Seminyak’s seaside membership and “cultural village” – to launch its island-wide Community Waste Project. It additionally sparked the beginning of Waste Lab, the place refuse is reimagined by means of the lens of round design. British craftsman and longtime Potato Head collaborator Max Lamb immersed himself within the island’s workshops to design the primary Wasted assortment: a sequence of homeware and furnishings created domestically and fully from discarded materials. Styrofoam, damaged ceramics and worn-out sheets are all repurposed, with the assistance of Balinese artisans, into coasters, loungers, candle holders, glassware and rugs. Even the marigold flowers from day by day temple choices are used, as pure dye. Lamb’s philosophy is to design with pragmatism: “It’s about products that hold value… that stimulate human interaction.”
Miu Miu Upcycled by Catherine Martin
“There are clashes of the pretty and the vulgar, brought together in a beautiful way,” says Oscar-winning costume and set designer Catherine Martin of her collaboration with Miu Miu Upcycled. Launched in 2020, the Upcycled sequence is the model’s gradual trend line of reworked classic clothes and materials sourced globally and reworked into restricted version items (out there at chosen boutiques worldwide). Martin, a artistic power behind The Great Gatsby and Moulin Rouge!, took inspiration from photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue. Images of the “nautical hedonistic beach culture” of the Nineteen Twenties influenced the capsule, which mixes “things that don’t necessarily belong together”, she says: lingerie and striped T-shirts, lace with exhausting tailoring or a foulard halterneck prime composed of classic scarves.