seamstresses used to work in a textiles factory that closed down. they ve now found new ways to use their skills. in some project localness beautiful that meant the project as collaborative and participatory the basic aim is to apply the do it yourself spirit to traditional crafting and the maker movement closing the gap between artists and all creativity and technology that will hear. the. business side on all the cases they re making here this panel and the electrical sombrero hat it all works with rechargeable batteries but there are other godless. the solar panels are connected to. each other using conductive steel thread forming an electrical circuit the women combine the conductive thread with
you and then you can walk back to them and say could be thirteen which are not so seen and you can find some amazing pieces in there now venice is also a huge tourist magnet and also we see that your family is closely connected with why is that i love that me so much i used to live there indication when it was a child with my grandparents my parents and it was like being in a theater a little man you know they ve gone and the water and the cars are so amazing and inspiring for me i think the water it s a very creative element because he moves things and he gives and different perspective and i like the museum and i love the ancient park and i do love the contemporary art my house and then he says close to the guggenheim museum and every time i go and visit it i take some great inspiration back with me and want to turn our attention a little bit too. fabrics you know venice is well known for the art of silk and velvet weaving which dates back centuries but when you look at to date how h
a secret with you when i lost my mother in all seventeen the first thing i did was hire a new seamstresses because i believe they needed patents you know he s made a great t.v. he s made up numbers is made of marketing and managers but most of all is made of hands is made of every day s work is made of stitching so i found three amazing women in rome and i had them immediately and that made me feel stronger and gave me the chance to share beauty. now in terms of fabrics where do you normally go shopping for your fabrics for the clothes well you do buy mainly kind of fabrics but as you know my mother was the first time in this manner to do a fashion show in china in one thousand nine hundred eight it was very early but then you know now that everybody goes to time they have been programmed by the one thing i think it was early and she was invited by the close there so we do still buy a lot of kashmir from china the new york times named the queen of kashmir because
of policy making are not doing the necessarily the right types of things in order to rectify that that imbalance and alan poses just we have to take another figure similar to the one i just quoted eight men on the same wealth as the three point six billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity are we are complacent species no we re not look. you in your introductory movie clip you showed people in bangladesh seamstresses and so on i m wearing a suit of border prime art for fifty euros it was probably i didn t look made in in bangladesh and that s and so i m doing my bit actually to help development because bangladesh is a huge success story i don t understand why this should be portrayed as something terrible ninety percent of bangladesh is foreign income is earned by exporting t. shirts and suits and what have you to america and they reappear in union and these people are in work there they they have they can they can feed their children
the goal is to create an energy efficient eco friendly home. this is a typical french working class district built in the early nine hundred twenty s. around the textile factories that made who bade rich. thousands of people lived here including many immigrants you sit down. by. yourself today the area is neglected rundown and partially abandoned. but bay s new future is starting here in the relics of the past a textile industry startup has moved in it s giving t. shirts that didn t find buyers a make over the seamstresses who work here it used to be unemployed the startup has created new jobs for them and hopes to hire more workers soon everything is done by hand. two thousand t. shirts are ready and waiting for shipping. it s