SDW Students: Cristina Moreno González
School’s in for sustainability.
Jeanologia recently collaborated with university students to design new pieces for its Sustainable Denim Wardrobe collection, and Carved in Blue has been chatting with them about their experiences.
For Cristina Moreno González, whose proposal was the most commercial and showed effortless looks, sustainable fashion is a no-brainer: “I love the earth, so we have to take care of it,” she shared.
Read on for a window into where young designers are getting their inspiration, and check out the stories with some of the other students we’ve talked to.
Carved in Blue: Tell us about your project’s concept.
Cristina: The concept’s inspiration is about a Mexico trip. This trip connected me with my essence and my roots. The contact with nature makes me feel free and wild. This collection is versatile and multifunctional. It’s clothing combining with [more] basic clothing that can be your baggage for a long time. The use occasion could be very different moments, such as special events, adventure time or relaxing time.
Carved in Blue: What is most important to today’s textile design students?
Cristina: We have to be conscious and create a new slow fashion, and we have to finish with fast fashion. We have to teach people to avoid consumption and take care of our clothes for a long time.
Carved in Blue: What are some of the biggest struggles for today’s young designers?
Cristina: Young designers want to be different and extravagant, so they might create a fashion for short period of time so we change the clothing very often.
Carved in Blue: What are some of the most interesting sources of inspiration for design students?
Cristina: The most interesting sources of inspiration is nature and its mechanism to create new things with no waste to the earth. It is a closed cycle.
Carved in Blue: Are students generally optimistic or pessimistic about the future of denim?
Cristina: I think the students are optimistic about it because there are new technologies, like Jeanologia, that are growing, and there are new ways to research about it.
Carved in Blue: Could you see yourself pursuing a job in the denim industry and why?
Cristina: It could be a good field for a job. It is a really wide field, and it has to be more sustainable every year. With the sustainable studies I did this year, I could contribute new ways to sort out problems in the denim industry.
Carved in Blue: What were your thoughts on participating in the Sustainable Denim Wardrobe collaboration?
Cristina: I really enjoyed a lot this project. It was very creative and versatile. We could experience with this amazing technology to create whatever we wished for our collection. This technology has no limits with a creative mind.
Carved in Blue: Where is your favorite city to visit for inspiration?
Cristina: I would like to visit South America for inspiration; the smalls villages and their cultures are very enriching.
Carved in Blue: Bootcut or flares / straight cut or skinny?
Cristina: Bootcut and skinny.
Carved in Blue: What does Carved in Blue mean to you?
Cristina: Innovation and a new way to spread denim.