“Now I’m making a skirt from old shirts. Men don’t buy new clothing, and often like to wear a piece until it’s really worn out. For example, this is a shirt of my father’s and he has a lot of shirts he doesn’t wear anymore, but still keeps lying around. That’s why I don’t do menswear because they wear their clothes so many times, until they’re worn out.

So I first iron it, and then I make the cuts. I cut it into whatever comes to mind. I try to do different cuts. Like this one is with the rubber here, and this one has the pockets here. Sometimes what’s nice about designing clothing from clothing, is that you’re restricted to the amount of fabric you have to work with. It can be frustrating when you want to do something else that requires more fabric, but it’s also great, because it requires you to think out of the box. In design, when you have the option to do everything, and a million options, it’s hard to decide what you want to do. It makes you think creatively and because you have limited options you get to play with it. The dream for the future is to have this store filled with mainly things I designed. But I know this will take time, because I also do alterations now, but slowly slowly.”