New Resources Available on the Refashionized Website: The Trainer's Corner is Live!

We are excited to announce the launch of the Trainer’s Corner on the Refashionized website! You can now download all project materials for free, including: the History of Fashion and Sustainable Fashion Booklets, the Sustainable Fashion Glossary, the Practical Toolkit.

These resources are designed to support professionals and enthusiasts in the fashion industry, providing valuable insights into sustainability and upcycling practices.

Additionally, from November 11-13, we hosted the final project meeting and Learning Activities at Lottozero, bringing together trainers, designers, professors, youth workers, and artists from the Refashionized consortium. During these three days in Prato, participants had the chance to learn upcycling techniques, dive deeper into using the Practical Toolkit, and gain practical skills to share with their communities and fellow trainers. It was truly an enriching and inspiring experience for all involved!

Read the full newsletter here and keep up to date on Refashionized social media: Facebook  , Instagram and TikTok .

We are looking forward to hear your feedback on the Trainer’s Corner materials!

Welcome designer Isabel Wolfs, who will be at Lottozero for a one month residency!

Isabel Wolfs is a designer who specializes in sportswear, streetwear, and footwear. Her driving force is a fascination with materials and techniques. Trained as both a maker and designer, her creative process begins with researching a product's technical details, while remaining highly conscious of its impact. Coupled with her love for nature and sports, her approach to design prioritizes quality and sustainability.

These personal interests are reflected in Studio Wolfs, which explores experimental research design that challenges our perceptions of products. The studio focuses on product design through material research and craftsmanship, with a particular dedication to upcycling and sustainability. Studio Wolfs aims to highlight the importance of reconsidering how we make and value products, promoting a long-term perspective over a short-term one, by presenting materials and elements in a different light.

Fresh updates from Refashionized project!

Our team is is currently finalizing the Trainer’s Corner which encompasses resources and training materials for youth workers and trainers to support them in conducting training session with young people on two themes: History of Fashion and Sustainable Fashion.

Last month we met the other partners in Valencia for the second Transnational Meeting hosted by UPV Politecnica de Valencia. Here we had the chance to discuss the project’s progress, with a special focus on the Trainer’s Corner.

Read the full newsletter here and keep up to date on Refashionized social media: Facebook  , Instagram and TikTok .

We are looking forward to share the first results of the project with you! 

credit: Anders Myklebust

Maureen Selina Laverty is a fashion designer and action researcher from Northern Ireland, based in Norway, specialised in inclusive sensory design. For the last three years she has been co-creating knowledge with people on the autism spectrum about their lived sensory experiences with clothing and how it shapes their experiences of the world. Through a PhD project she has prioritised the tactile, sonic and kinaesthetic senses to understand how we can design clothing for, and with, people who are neurodivergent and have amplified sensory needs. 

Her design residency at Lottozero is an extension of this work, inspired by research participants that report being overwhelmed by the sound, texture and movement of plastic rainwear. Through the development of a small collection of rainwear Maureen explores how the sound and weight of clothing affects how these sensations connect, or disconnect, us with our environment.

Her embodied way of working is informed by a bachelors in fashion design from NCAD, training as a tailor on Savile Row and Alexander McQueen, 5 years developing medical wearable technology, and a masters in product design engineering at NTNU with a particular focus on participatory and inclusive design.

We are happy to announce that we are part of a new Erasmus project called Refashionized - Fashion Revolution towards sustainability !

We are working together with five EU-Partners: Jugend- & Kulturprojekt e.V. , Kainotomia & SIA EE , Catwalk Project , Cellock LTD , Politecnica de Valencia ) to support a sustainable future of fashion. Through this project we want to encourage young people to a sustainable approach to fashion usage and consumption ,  by offering them several different educational activities and tools about fashion culture, and upcycling. 

Keep up to date and follow the project on Refashionized social media: Facebook    , Instagram and TikTok .

We are looking forward to SEEING YOU THERE!

Lottozero Open Club has come to an end and we are very happy with the outcome! Many of you participated, both old friends and new, many of whom came from far away.

We shared knowledge, experiences, research, ideas and opinions with you and with some of the protagonists of the textile district of Prato and beyond. We started a dialogue with professionals of different ages, backgrounds, areas of intervention, working methods and points of view.

This to us, is the true meaning of sharing, and our favorite way to cultivate this great passion that unites us, textiles, creating connections capable of generating innovation and continuous exchange.

Here you can find the recordings of the online events realized in collaboration with the Textile Museum of Prato and Associazione Ex-Allievi Istituto Buzzi.

While we wait to be able to plan new activities again, we would like to hear from you. Please take the time to complete this survey, and let us know what kind of events and workshops you would like to attend at Lottozero in the future.

We're excited to announce that for the second time we are participating in the Creative Flip, P2P exchange program between creative hubs.

This time, we are exchanging practices, knowledge and expertise with Romantso in Athens, and the main theme is weaving!  

Two members of our communities, one from each hub, textile designer and weaver Alexandra Bissa from Romantso and textile artist and weaver Cristina Mariani, will exchange pictures of both our cities, draw inspiration through them, create a 4-color palette and weave a 20x20cm piece.

Due to Covid-19 we will be doing it all online and we challenge you to participate!! Select one of the two color palettes and prepare a drawing or weave a 20 cm x 20 cm piece. Post it on your social media and tag us so we can share your project later in January!

Creative's Flip P2P is co-funded by the European Union, led by the Goethe Institute and partnered up by European Creative Hubs Network.

Are you curious to know how a fabric takes shape?

Do you want to understand how a loom works?

Do you want to try screen-printing and discover the sophisticated operation of a knitting machine?

We wait for you in our headquarter in via Arno 10, on September 26th, for an open-day entirely dedicated to the laboratory and the textile techniques it offers!

We will show you all the machinery and tools we have available and with the help of two special collaborators we will make small demos to explain how they work. You will be able to try needles, threads, colors and fabrics.

The OPEN DAY is the first event of LOTTOZERO OPEN CLUB, a series of events thought to involve the local community and share knowledge and experiences related to textile culture: workshops with artists and designers, talks, presentations and meetings with some associations of the territory. We will share soon the full program of ours OPEN NIGHTS, with all the guest and dates.

In the meantime, we hope to see you on Saturday 26th, from 11 to 18 o clock.

Access is free and upon reservation through eventbrite.

Project financed thanks to the Urban Regeneration Fund of the Tuscany Region and Giovani Sì.

We are happy to announce the 3rd edition of Fashion Revolution Fair.

Lottozero has been active for Fashion Revolution, the global movement calling for greater transparency, sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry, with a variety of projects for the last 3 years.

This year the fair is back with high quality dead-stock fabrics and sartorial craftsmanship for a double event which will take place at Manifattura Tabacchi in Florence and at Base in Milan.

The goal of the project is to reconnect the public with production, with the value of work, with handmade unique pieces and with quality in textile production and tailoring.

We want to open the selection to our community, so we are looking for tailors, dressmakers and independent fashion designers who work made to measure and share these values with us.

The selected creatives will have the opportunity to participate in the two day event, exhibit their designs and take orders to realize customized clothes for visitors. The participation cost is 80 euro for the whole weekend. Among the applicants we will select two winners who can join the fair for free.

To apply please send a selection of works, website or Instagram and a short bio to info@lottozero.org.

Deadline to apply: February 4th, 2020

This edition of the Fashion Revolution Fair is realized thanks to the support of Cambia moda!.