This Swiss had a year of the same dress

What should I wear today? This thought Zipporah Marti was freed a year, because she wore the same thing every day black dress. "I could Breakfast in peace and no longer had to race to reach the Bus. Me more time for the Important things remained," says the 25-Year-old.

In your project, One it's more than fashion: "I consider with any purchase, whether or not I really need this. If I buy something, it should be produced in a sustainable way," she says. And one of the Central questions of your project is: What is time and material really matter?

her dress was produced in Bern, the Material is Satin cotton was woven in Zurich and colored. "In Switzerland, you can be rather sure that the fair is produced. And the wastewater of the dyeing and colouring flows through water treatment plants," she says.

The Design made Marti a balancing act, because she wanted to wear the dress in summer and in Winter. For the color Black, she decided quickly, because she is wearing these often and Black a good combine.

Sustainable Lingerie

The interest in clothes is no accident: After an apprenticeship as a seamstress Zipporah Marti was formed in Germany and worked in Central Switzerland, in the case of a sports garment producers. "When I started, my life, to rethink style, no longer fit the Job to me." Currently, the Bank is targeting sustainable Lingerie self-employment.

design your own dresses buys from Berne in second hand shops or in shops that represent their values. Words of praise you can find for Stoor in the Rathausgasse and Etris in the Lorraine, where her dress and sewn to the next level. Marti is a role model: 20 pieces of her dress were ordered, because they inspired others.

For a project, you cleaned out your closet, found a box of clothes in the basement, kept a lot of it to complement your dress, and gave away a lot of things. "Giving away is a relief for me," she says.

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Zipporah Marti, the project not only started, but decided to blog about it. For a year you to view over 1100 Followers on Instagram, how you presented every day and dress her in a photo.

The most common question they asked was, when you wash the dress. "Some of them under me, was that I would wash it never," says Marti. You wear it day and night. All three days she washed it in the evening, by Hand. More interesting than this question, she finds that no one of noticed that she was wearing the same dress. "Before, I was thinking, if I wore three days in a row with the same pair of Jeans."

After 365 days, many Fanposts, and a few hate comments, you finished the project at the end of the year. The response had been much greater than they had thought. "The fact that I always wore the Same, has refined my style", it pulls the balance sheet. Your goal is to have only a few clothes, for such, the cross and cross-combine. Your black dress will, however, remain now more often also times a day in the closet. (Editorial Tamedia)

Created: 06.01.2019, 15:33 PM