Treches to release summer 2011 collection

Von treches am 05. Jun. 2010

Up until now, we’ve been releasing the collections only half a year before they “hit the market”.  This has it’s advantages, but also some huge drawbacks, so we’ve decided to go with the flow and release the collections one year early.
The reasons is above all the production-time –it takes some time to find sources for fabrics, dyes, wait for them, and making it all into clothes - and we’ve been quite late with our deliveries lately…
and it’s a lot nicer to design summer clothing in the summer!

So at theKey.to this summer, 8.-10. July 2010, we’ll show our summer collection for 2011.

BUT to not make the gap to big… we’ll have some very few pieces ready for winter 2010/2011 as well!

do the right thing!

Von treches am 14. Jan. 2010

…und zu sehen und anfassen auf theKey.to nächste woche!

Diesmal NEU! mit Hanf/bio-baumwolle-jersey –ein sehr schönes material das ich unheimlich froh bin das ich entedeckt habe! ..Und ich habe auch der Flachs einen neuen chance gegeben..

Inspiriert von alles was wir an Mode aus den 90′ern ausgelacht habe..

mach mit bei Slow Fashion Award 2010

Von treches am 15. Dez. 2009

Es ist aber nicht nur für designer_innen aus Österreich! :))

text von die webseite:

UNSER DIESJÄHRIGER SCHWERPUNKT
Recycling. Accessoires.
Agadez. Wien.

Der Slow Fashion Award 2010 thematisiert neueste & nachhaltige textile Entwicklungen und macht heuer RECYCLING FASHION in der Öffentlichkeit salonfähig.

Afrikanische Textilien samt den Geschichten ihres kreisläufigen Gebrauchs und ihrer Einbettung in das kulturelle Umfeld werden zu neuen Produkten: ACCESSOIRES.

Eine namhafte Jury wählt die Siegerdesigns aus, die am 20. April 2010 prämiert werden.

Muu* Mode als Brücke und Slow Fashion, die Agentur für nachhaltiges Design eröffnen den dritten Bewerb für mehr Nachhaltigkeit in der Modebranche — heuer erstmals in Österreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz.

Einreichung ab 15. Dezember 2009 bis 10. Februar 2010.
Unterlagen bei award@slowfashion.at anfordern!

Der Slow Fashion Award ist der erste Modebewerb zur Bewusstmachung und Veröffentlichung ökologischer Strategien in österreichischem Modedesign.

Wir betrachten nachhaltige und innovative Textilien als kommunikatives Medium, in dem Öffentlichkeit und Intimität, soziale Verantwortung, ästhetisch-sinnliche Qualitäten und spezielle Materialeigenschaften eine tragende Rolle spielen.

Der Bewerb soll die Themen Nachhaltigkeit und kreisläufiges Wirtschaften emotional näherbringen und in Unternehmen und der Gesellschaft verankern.

creative recycling workshop

Von treches am 01. Dez. 2009

Kunst-Stoffe is a wonderful “recycling-hof” where companies bring their left-over stuff, and everybody can go find unique treasures like plexi-glass, buttons, wine corks or keramic tiles. But what to do with all the nice old stuff?
Here’s a chance to get inspired:

Kunst-Stoffe -Zentralstelle für wiederverwendbare Materialien- e.V. lädt ein:
OFFENE WERKSTÄTTEN IM ADVENT FÜR KLEINE UND GROßE SELBERMACHERiNNEN

am 4., 11. und 18. Dezember von 17 bis 21 Uhr
bei Kunst-Stoffe, Berliner Str.17, 13189 Berlin-Pankow,
S-/U-Bahnhof Pankow

Programm:
4.12.2009: Strahlendes
Wir basteln und bauen Laternen, Kerzenständer, Windlichter und Lampenschirme aus unterschiedlichen Materialien.
11.12.2009: Taschen aus Tüten
Bringt Eure schönsten und ausgefallensten Plastiktüten mit und verwandelt sie mit dem Bügeleisen in außergewöhnliche Taschen, Portemonnaies und andere aufregende Unikate.
18.12.2009: Schmückendes
Aus Materialresten stellen wir verschiedene Schmuckstücke, die Ihr an Hals und Armen tragen und zum Verschönern von Geschenken, Fahrrädern, Taschen oder auch Stofftieren verwenden könnt.

mehr info siehe: www.kunst-stoffe-berlin.de

we’re going to paris

Von treches am 29. Sep. 2009

During the Fashion Week in Paris, there’s a green/fair alternative; Ethical Fashion Show, kind of like theKey in Berlin I think, only bigger and older..

Treches will be shown at a collaboration stand organized by the people behind theKey, together with other german fairwear brands: Jovoo, po-zu, Pamoyo and Isabelle de Hillerin.

..I’m looking forward to the fashionshows, the workshops, and the onion soup!

Treches: new collection

Von treches am 03. Sep. 2009

Beton is the new collection from Treches, for winter 09/10.

The online-catalog is ready on www.treches.com

There’s extra photos and pricelists for everyone interested… I’ll be sending them out tomorrow (now it’s Fall of Efrafa in Köpi..)

soon…

Von treches am 02. Sep. 2009

there’ll be more in a couple of days!

on the market

Von treches am 25. Aug. 2009

…and Treches will be there!

you might even get a glimpse of the wintercollection -because it is actually about finished, we just have to do the photoshooting! (i’ll announce it here of course when it’s ready..)

so, its badeschiff/arena this weekend, from early morning till late night, both saturday and sunday. see you there!

dyeing fabrics with red onions

Von treches am 14. Aug. 2009

I were, really, close to giving up on the whole ‘dyeing with food-colours’- project, when I decided to make one last attempt after reading about dyeing with red onions in an old ‘tips and tricks’-book…
(Since my last post about dyeing I’ve been trying out the sodium carbonate and also “urea” which should make the colour stronger -but without ANY success! :( -so seriously: dyeing with beetroot is NOT possible! believe me! I’ve tried too many times now!..)

anyway: here’s a dyeing-experiment that actually worked out!!:::

I collected the skin/peelings from about three red onions.
(what’s good about this ’source of dye’ is that you could keep it for ages -and collect the skins every time you use red onions for cooking. Cause if you want to dye big pieces of fabric you’re going to need a lot! -my three onions was enough for about 200g of fabric (means 1/2 t-shirt..)

I don’t know if this is really making any difference: I soaked the fabrics in sodium carbonate (”soda”)-water-mix with a pH of 11. This is to prepare the fibers to take up the dye..

cooking the peelings for about twenty minutes -the colour changes from dark purple to dark brown -a quite disgusting one..
Then I filtered the skins out.

Here I’ve added the fabric and let it boil for another 15 minutes (So if you have a new t-shirt you want to dye, it’s probably going to shrink!)
Afterwards, I rinsed out the fabric with cold water.
..As usual (!!!) most of the dye goes out, but this time…

..the fabric keeps some of the colour!!! (jippie!)
What you see on this picture is (from right): dyeing with beetroot-pieces (didn’t work..), dyeing with beetroot-”juice” (also didn’t work) and, on the left: dyeing with red onions!!!
-yes, well, the colour is not really a strong one, but it’s at least something!
..And, I believe, with the skin of some twenty onions, it would be strong yellow/brownish!

(Unfortunately, I’m not really into yellow this season.. maybe next year… ;))

wie gehts Treches?

Von treches am 26. Jun. 2009

Seems I’ve been neglecting the blogging for a while — even though I so much wanted to tell you all about my new discovery when it comes to dyeing: organic ready-to-use-dyes from Öko-norm (available online on Lebensfluss), Jaaa— It’s not so DIY as my previous attempts with foodcolours –but it works!!!
AND they sell separate fixer for setting the dyes -maybe thats just what I missed for my dyeing experiments.
Anyway, now I can also dye stuff blue! (here with red spots..-not really a success..)

..And then it was suddenly definitely time for a holiday.. so I went for a week to norway and sweden -and to ease my bad conscience about flying I decided to drive my motorbike there and camp outside -which was all very nice until i came back to germany and got caught in the middle of nowwhere in the extremely shitty weather in north-east germany yesterday (guess everybody going early to fusion noticed that…) ah, it all ended good, but I learned now why people prefer waterproof motorbike-boots to veja-sneakers when they’re out driving…

Today was back to work, and I’m extremely excited about theKey next week! I got some new fabric-samples from Lichtschatz to make a couple of new prototypes for the coming winter-collection, even though we’re both still sowing the current collection, (”we” being me and Sandra Tiersch, a friend who’s a tailor and might be doing even more work with Treches in the future! I hope!)

Well, see you on wednesday!..