6th of May 2025 from 9 am to 4 pm
Italian Cultural Institute
Wool is a natural fiber of animal origin, deeply connected to the tradition and culture of textiles and clothing for millennia. It is protection, transformation, survival, but if left to its own nature, it becomes oppression, excess. A sheep that is not sheared may succumb to the weight of its own wool. A powerful image that reflects not only our relationship with raw materials but also the dynamics of contemporary fashion: we accumulate without rest, we produce without measure, suffocating under the excess.
The workshop Threading a Sustainable Future starts from a question: how can we translate this tension into form, structure, garments? The concept of weight and liberation will guide the creative process, leading participants to explore the ideas of accumulation and subtraction, constraint and metamorphosis. Wool will be treated not only as a material, but as a symbol of a system that needs to be re-founded, deconstructed, lightened.
Through draping, volumes, and experimental cuts, the project will give life to a series of garments that embody this journey: from compression to expansion, from layering to detachment, from constraint to liberation. Each creation will be a visual and tactile reflection on how fashion can serve as a language to talk about our need for a change.
The final exhibition will be a statement of intent: not only an exploration of the potential of wool, but a meditation on the future of design, the body, and sustainability.
The workshop is curated by Carla Caria and Salvatore Vignola, winners of the second edition of the Premio Stoccolma, an initiative promoting sustainable fashion organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Carla Caria and Salvatore Vignola will present the outcomes of a workshop, aimed at students and researchers from the Fashion Studies program at Stockholm University, during the event on the evening of the 6th of May.
