Petit Pli
Petit Pli is a clothing brand that creates garments which are designed to grow with the wearer. As a completely sustainable company, Petit Pli reduces water and carbon footprints while also providing clothes that last. The team is comprised of individuals with a background in design engineering, fashion, neuroscientists and sociologists, who have a strong passion for innovation, responsible consumption, and encouraging others to cherish their clothes and use less.
The company was founded by an aeronautical engineer Ryan Mario Yasis in 2017 after having bought clothing for his newly born nephew, but once they eventually arrived they already didn’t fit. Noting that children’s-wear lacks recognition of the ever changing and fast growing bodies of children, Ryan took initiative and designed a piece of clothing that ‘grows’ with his nephew, and spares the demand of having to constantly buy more.
After becoming a great success and initiating a sustainable children’s-wear revolution Petit Pli also began designing and converting adult clothing. Not only does Petit Pli design clothes that are meant to last a lifetime, they are also without gender and flexible enough to accommodate many body shapes and sizes, styles, activities, and even purposes. In addition to being so versatile, the clothing also adds a significant factor in halting environmental damage.
Once Covid-19 came to light, a new task arose of transforming disposable masks that were inevitably ending up in landfill. Petit Pli created masks that were produced from recycled plastic bottles, and yet stylish and comfortable.
Krystal Paniagua
Krystal Paniagua is another clothing brand that designs unique garments that are adaptable and can be worn as more than one thing. The clothing is knitted in-house and made from a yarn of natural fibres. For the knitwear a special approach is implemented, in which there is no need to cut any fabrics, resulting in an entirely free process from textile waste. The clothing is designed to be interpreted by each individual and can therefore be worn in various ways.
With the interpretation being left open to each wearer there are endless ways to style the garments, dresses can be turned into skirts, skirts can be transformed into tops, and items can also be inverted and reveal another colour. The garments are mostly one-size and are aimed to accommodate a broad variety of body types.
Krystal Paniagua frames a “dynamic relationship” between the wearers and her company through allowing them to have full ownership over how to alter and style the items.
Her brand centres on:
Adjustability - being inclusive while working with a tight budget
Reversibility - having variable colours on each side to fit different occasions
Transformability - giving the wearers total control over how they wish to style the garments.
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