cBlends is a project to remix and reuse clothes by blending different cultures through the intermediary of fashion.

Longer Description

cBlends is a project to re-use clothes from two or more pre-existing sources to create a cultural blend of concept and fashion styles. Current cBlends include merging American Hip-hop sweatshirts with business suits and military-wear repurposed in a casual, yet pseudo-utilitarian style. Clothes may be blended together using processes similar to computer-based video editing transitions and modern cut n’ paste remix techniques.

This project subverts the throw-away consumerist culture of fashion upgrades and high-level approach of fashion designers operating in high-towers. cBlends empowers individual consumers to also become producers from the resources that one already owns and may purchase inexpensively. Ideally, if one becomes skilled in blending fashion, one will increase their clothes’ utility, appeal, and open the possibility to earn income from personal efforts.

And, while cBlends has is focused on fashion, the emphasis in this project is on developing a community around the ideas internal to the project. The four primary authors of the project live in San Francisco and Guangzhou, China, and interactively edit clothing designs on-line. Emphasis now is on growing the number of artists creating this fashion style and blogging designs to create a collective social digital trail of this movement akin to green social entrepreneurship.

People

The authors of this project are Jon Phillips (http://rejon.org/bio), Deer Fang (http://deerfang.org), Han Yan and Bibi. We are expanding.

Development

Please see the wiki page to help us edit these ideas, contribute and more.