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Tuesday, July 14, 2020
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Did Zero Waste Daniel Predict The Death Of Fashion As We Know It?
Like many aspiring fashion designers, Daniel Silverstein found inspiration for what would become his life’s work in the classroom. During his senior year at FIT, Silverstein was asked to design a pair of sustainable jeans. “Everyone said, you know, ‘I’m going to use organic cotton,’ or ‘I’m going to use natural dye,’” he recalls. Silverstein took a harder stance: “If I’m handed a piece of denim, I should use every piece of that denim on that pair of jeans and not waste anything.” The idea for Zero Waste Daniel was born.
Before it came to fruition though, he had a brief stint as a design intern at Carolina Herrera and then a temp job as an assistant sweater designer at Victoria’s Secret. But it didn’t take long for Silverstein to realize that traditional fashion wasn’t for him. “As a young professional, I got to actually see what wastes we were creating, and having just recently done that project, it really didn’t sit well with me,” Silverstein says. “I was so uncomfortable with being part of the design process, ordering production that was going to be wasteful.” Six months into his job at Victoria’s Secret, he quit and started a zero-waste brand, 100%, which was a ready-to-wear line of cocktail dresses, suits, and more that utilized 100% of every piece of fabric bought.
At the time, sustainability in fashion wasn’t as widely talked about as it is today. “Sustainability was just one of many clubs you could take as a student,” Silverstein says. ‘When I got [100%] in front of a buyer, an editor, anyone, they would say, ‘I love your designs. The zero-waste thing, on the other hand, I can write down, but it’s whatever.’” No matter how impressive his designs were style-wise, the response to any mention of the zero-waste concept was always, “Nobody cares,” he says.
Five years into designing 100%, Silverstein shut down his studio and shipped out his last order. But not before making one last T-shirt out of the scraps of what was formerly his brand. “I put up a selfie [on Instagram] of myself wearing this shirt that I made on a day when I was bored, a little depressed, and not really wanting to do all of the packing up and fulfilling that I was supposed to be doing,” he says. “And out of nowhere, my engagement doubled.” A light switch flicked on in his head, and he knew that this was the business he was meant to spearhead: zero-waste genderless basics.
“This is something that anyone could wear — an attainable, relatable product that almost everyone has in their wardrobe,” he says. Rather than sharing it with the press, he took this newly refocused business model to retailers that already cared about sustainability, selling at pop-ups and flea markets before eventually obtaining a full-time booth at a market in downtown Manhattan. “And, as they say, the rest is history,” he says.
“In accepting failure, I was able to find a more sustainable path towards my own life and sustainability,” Silverstein says. “It’s more than just how eco-friendly a product is. It’s about being able to actually maintain doing something — and I finally created a business that I could actually maintain.”
That was four years ago. Since then, Zero Waste Daniel opened up a studio-sized storefront in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, obtained viral success for his work in “trashion,” or fashion made out of repurposed, used, or found items, and began sourcing from a nonprofit called FABSCRAP that is creating the first-ever dataset to keep track of textile waste. At his design-studio-turned-retail-shop, Silverstein and his husband-slash-business-partner Mario DeMarco produce 100% waste-free clothing. According to a feature in The New York Times, the space has three sewing machines and no trash can. Glass jars of fabric scraps fill the 750-square-foot space, scraps that Silverstein can still trace back to his first dumpster dive for fabric in 2016.
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Silverstein also started a fashion series titled “Sustainable Fashion Is Hilarious,” which, so far, includes shows like the Trash Bomb, The Apocalypse, and The Death of Fashion. “I’m firsthand getting up in front of an audience of ticket holders and telling them a story, trying to make them laugh, showing them clothes, and also communicating with people about my sustainable experience,” he says. “These shows felt relevant at the time based on my personal experience, but, looking back at them, I feel like maybe I was speaking on behalf of other people, too.”
When The Death of Fashion comedy-slash-fashion-show took place in February during fall ‘20 fashion week, rumors of the pandemic were only just beginning to spread. The event, hosted at an augmented reality space in Manhattan called Arcadia Earth, was what Silverstein refers to as a “fashion funeral,” to mourn the loss of Barney’s New York, a fashion staple that closed early this year. “I realized, ‘Oh my goodness, I will never sell to Barney’s’ — something that I had always wanted to do and hoped to do my entire career,” Silverstein recalls. “I’m watching it go out of business and I know I’ll never have the opportunity.”
Little did he know at the time that a few months later, many others, including Need Supply, Totokaelo, and Sies Marjan, would be gone forever as well. “We just watched an epidemic wipe out a bunch of brands,” he says. “That was the last season to see any of them.” With that realization came an even greater one: “It wasn’t just me who thought that things were broken,” he says of the fashion industry whose issues range from a calendar that goes against seasons to discounting that’s harmful to brand. “I think they really were broken, and we’re seeing that now. Sad as it is, it’s validating in a way.”
The pandemic has affected a lot of industries, but fashion has been hit especially hard. Brands are now “handcuffed by inventory,” as Silverstein describes it, while his little studio in Brooklyn is “sustainable and built to last.” But he’s not bragging. Instead, he hopes that from the death of fashion as we know it, a new era of less impactful methods of production will rise from the ashes.
To further pave the way for this new, sustainable future, Zero Waste Daniel has partnered up with thredUP, the world’s largest online resale platform, on what the duo is called “ReFashion,” a zero-waste collection made from 100% secondhand garments and fabric scraps. For the partnership, ZWD took all of the otherwise-unsellable donations that thredUP received, and reworked them into a collection of summer-ready pieces. “In essence, every single piece is a one-of-a-kind, while still hanging together as a collection,” he says. The collection features a palm leaf motif that Silverstein chose in order to “ensure that the green message really came across.”
The collection also allows ZWD fans, who wouldn’t normally be able to afford a piece from Silverstein’s collection, to purchase something handmade by the designer himself. “This collection helped get me to get out of my usual price point a little bit,” he says. “It is designed to be very affordable.” The overall goal of the campaign, according to Silverstein, is this: “Even if something looks boring and plain or is something that you think you can’t even sell and you should just throw away, there’s still potential in it.” All you really need to do is “zhuzh it up.”
Shop the Zero Waste Daniel x thredUP collection today on thredUP.com.
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Dario Calmese Just Made Vanity Fair History With Viola Davis Cover
Vanity Fair, the Condé Nast-owned magazine created to share “parties, the arts, sports, theatre, humor, and so forth,” was first published in January of 1914, according to a feature the magazine published about itself. “Your magazine should cover the things people talk about,” Frank Crowninshield said when he interviewed for the position of editor. Today, 106 years later, when the only topic more top of mind than the global pandemic is the Black Lives Matter movement, Vanity Fair has finally commissioned its first Black photographer to shoot the cover — a cover that stars none other than Triple Crown-winning actress Viola Davis.
On Tuesday, Vanity Fair’s July/August 2020 cover story, titled “My Entire Life Has Been a Protest” hit the stands. On it is a regal photograph of Davis’s profile taken by artist, director, consultant, and photographer Dario Calmese, a man whose work has been instrumental in the Black fashion community for years. For starters, Calmese directed Pyer Moss’s critically acclaimed spring ‘20 fashion show which famously took place at Brooklyn’s iconic King’s Theatre. The show closed out creative director Kerby Jean-Raymond’s three-part series titled “American, Also” which explored the question of what it means to be Black in America today.
Apart from Vanity Fair, for whom he’s worked with for over a year now, Calmese’s clients include The New York Times, The CFDA, and CBS. He’s written for Business of Fashion and worked with Beyoncé. And yet, this is his first cover shoot for the magazine.
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In an Instagram post following the story’s publication, Calmese thanked his cover star “for being [his] co-conspirator.” He also thanked Vanity Fair; Kira Pollack, the magazine’s creative director; Tara Johnson and Michael Kramer, its visual director and visual producer, respectively; and editor-in-chief Radhika Jones for the opportunity and for “believing in [his] vision.”
“Thank you to every black woman who’s felt invisible despite being on the front line of every fight. We see you. You are loved, you are powerful, and you are beautiful. This is for you,” he wrote.
On the cover, Davis can be seen wearing a stunning navy blue Max Mara gown. The photo, which shows off the open back of the dress, was meant to recreate “The Scourged Back,” a portrait from August of 1863 of an enslaved man named Gordon who escaped a Mississippi plantation, according to The New York Times.
Later in the story, a perfectly lit shot of the actress in a black Armani Privé velvet gown and gold baubles makes an appearance. This follows the Vogue (also owned by Condé Nast) August cover shoot featuring Olympic gymnast Simone Biles. Shot by longtime Vogue photographer Annie Leibovitz, the photos were criticized by many on social media for not being lit in a way that compliments Black skin tones. Morgan McCarthy, the National Picture Editor at The New York Times tweeted: “I adore Simone Biles and am thrilled she’s on this cover… but I hate these photos. I hate the toning, I hate how predictable they are, I hate the social crop here (wtf?) and I super hate that Vogue couldn’t be bothered to hire a Black photographer.” Vogue, founded in 1892, has only hired one Black photographer to shoot its cover, and that only happened after Beyoncé pushed for him. The photographer in question, Tyler Mitchell, is now one of fashion’s most sought after photographers.
Jones said in the VF letter from the editor that only 17 Black people have graced the cover of the magazine “in the 35 years between 1983 and 2017.” Since making her way to the helm of Vanity Fair two and a half years ago, she’s already featured 10 Black female subjects on the cover. That same increased visibility must also exist behind the scenes — and now it does. “This is [Calmese’s] first major magazine cover, and we celebrate him and honor his vision at this heightened moment in American history,” Jones said.
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Ganni & Richie Shazam Team Up To Support The Black Trans Community
Pride month may be over, but, to continue celebrating and supporting the Black LGBTQIA+ community beyond June, fashion brand Ganni teamed up with Queens-born queer photographer, artist, and activist Richie Shazam to release two of Shazam’s prints on the fashion brand’s website. Every penny from the sales of the prints, which are available while supplies last starting Tuesday, will be divided between The Marsha P. Johnson Institute and FOR THE GWORLS, two organizations that are fighting to protect the Black transgender community.
The prints — one being a scene from June’s Black Trans Lives Matter protest in Brooklyn and the other a self-portrait of Shazam from 2019 — are now available to purchase for $105 a piece. “My photography lets me tell stories, send but also transcend messages,” Shazam says in a press release. “My work connects me to who I am, where I come from, and most of all, those around me.” All 100 prints are also signed by Shazam.
Shazam is a longtime friend of the sustainable Danish brand, having attended a number of Ganni shows during Copenhagen Fashion Week, co-hosted parties with the husband-and-wife duo behind the brand, and was featured on the couple’s quarantine podcast Ganni Talks. So when Shazam needed a brand to help raise awareness for the Black trans movement, Ganni was a no-brainer. “It was such an honor,” Ditte Reffstrup, the brand’s creative director and co-founder, says in the release. “If there is anything this lockdown has taught me, it’s that we have to stick together and support each other.”
“I learned the hard way that living your truth authentically is a revolutionary act within itself,” Shazam said in the press release. “This year we are called upon to stand up and against the violence and hate thrust onto so many black and brown bodies.” The Black Trans Lives Matter march followed the deaths of a number of Black trans people, including Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells, Riah Milton, Tony McDade, and Layleen Polanco.
“So please continue to donate, protest and speak up. It’s about coming together to build community and provide resources, honoring where we came from, celebrating what we have achieved and recommitting ourselves to the work that’s still left to do,” Shazam said.
You can purchase the signed Richie Shazam prints on Ganni.com now.
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