Welcome back to the Moo-Young studio! In our previous episode, I took you through the nitty gritty tour of our workspace, and mentioned our piles of leather scraps nearly a dozen times. With such emphasis on saving the cast-off material, there certainly must be importance behind it. As promised, we will now plot out the many projects a single hide can feed, and both how and why we end up with towers of leather trimmings. In this chapter, I’d like to take you on a brief journey through our process of creating a zero waste brand using our shibori suede.
Have you ever wanted to know what really goes on behind the scenes at MOO-YOUNG? Welcome to our behind the scenes tour of the studio and learn what it's like working with this artist's creative process and being a small business.
At the end of 2018, you may recall that we had an ongoing interactive origami installation. . . Now, the year is 2019, and it’s time to unleash these thoughts and hopes into the universe! There’s great release in the act of unfolding; it’s a relaxing of structure, and a simplifying of form. And, most importantly, these messages are now exposed for others to absorb and contemplate.
I ask Shannon about where her inspiration comes from, and she unfolds for me a comprehensive system of aesthetic belief, tying her personal history to her love of world history.