Property News · August 14, 2016

A live-work haven in Hackney’s fashion district


Alex Noble’s live-work space is awash with rescued relics, making his decor just as recycled as his fashion. By Nell Card There are a lot of strange things in Alex Noble’s live-work studio. The weirdest is probably what he calls “the green fist” – an oversized green Hulk hand that sits on a shelf above his computer. Noble reaches over and puts it on: “We thought we’d do this” – he punches the air – “every time something good and ethical happens in the studio.”Noble is an artist, stylist and fashion designer with an aversion to creating more clothes. “I am constantly overwhelmed by the amount of clothes that exist,” he says. Three years ago, he went from creating one-off, avant-garde designs for style icons such as Lady Gaga and Florence Welch to launching Everything Must Go (EMG) – an ethical creative design initiative that uses waste material produced by the fashion industry as a way to challenge “destructive consumption”. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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