AWAYTOMARS AW19 – Collection Zero

Foto Ugo Camera

AWAYTOMARS the world’s first 100% user-created fashion brand presented their AW19 collection at Lisbon fashion Week.

Sustainability has always been one of the central principles of AWAYTOMARS. From the creation process, which incorporates a diverse network of creative talents, to their use of technology to predict consumer demand and avoid over-production. The brand’s mission is to think of creativity as something renewed, rather than wasteful.

This season, the collection, named Collection Zero explores the Japanese concept of mottainai – a sense of regret over waste, and not wasting what is valuable. It was developed not through production but instead by re-thinking, re-designing and re-cycling pieces discarded by their former owners. It was co-created using clothes sent by customers and members of the AWAYTOMARS community. This way the designers were forced to find new ways to design and work with new techniques.

The AWAYTOMARS community is connecting between the pieces by drawing on influences such as the Brazilian outsider artist Bispo do Rosário and the Italian-Brazilian modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi, using paints and dyes as linking motifs.

Where items have arrived damaged, they used a mixture of traditional and cutting-edge technologies to reconstruct them, including recycled balls of wool and heat-applied tape from Framis Italia. The result was a relativity between the new and the used in a collection of re-imagined pieces, each one containing a plethora of hidden stories.

Sustainability as a central principle. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Exploring the Japanese concept of mottainai – a sense of regret over waste. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Avoid over-production. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Creativity as something renewed. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Not wasting what is valuable. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Work with new techniques. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Re-designing pieces discarded by their former owners. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Using a mixture of traditional and cutting-edge technologies to reconstruct pieces. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
A relativity between new and the used. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Clothes sent by customers. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
re-thinking discarded pieces. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Influenced by architect Lina Bo Bardi. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Connecting between pieces. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Using paints and dyes as linking motifs. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Influenced by Brazilian artist Bispo do Rosário. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
Acollection of re-imagined pieces, each one containing a plethora of hidden stories. AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera
AWAYTOMARS AW19. Photograph: Ugo Camera