Profession / role:

Artist/Designer/Teacher

Company / organisation:

Bunka Gakuen University

My primary role in relation to fashion is:

Tutor

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Jobs

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About me / About business or organisation:

I use fabric scraps and factory waste yarns along with zero waste pattern techniques and wholegarment knitting machines as a way to reduce and repurpose waste materials in clothing production. While working, I'm continuing my research on sustainability, working with hemp fibre producer communities in Iwashima, Gunma prefecture and Tsukigase, Nara prefecture.
Hemp in Japan exemplifies many aspects related to sustainability such as identity, cultural heritage conservation, artisanal work and resilience, among others, with the use of wholegarments knitting machines, Hemp can have another view in Japan.

Career history / Company history:

I am currently working as a teacher assistant at the MA program Global Fashion Concentration at Bunka Gakuen University in Tokyo since 2018 after graduating from the MA on Fashion Design of Bunka Fashion Graduate University BFGU. I studied Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia and pursued a small fashion brand. Previously my arrival in Japan, I worked as a program coordinator for the Artistic Residence Program at the National University of Colombia until 2015.