CoCo Création

Grey Sheep

Coco.creation.ch

Location

Aigle / switzerland

Main Manufacturing Countries

switzerland

CoCo Création is a brand of clothing and
accessories made exclusively from recycled
materials. What’s special about my brand is
that I recover what people give me. Anything
that was supposed to end up in the garbage
can is recycled. I don’t choose my stock, but
from my stock. In other words, I don’t go to
second-hand stores, thrift shops, flea mar-
kets or buy dormant stock.

So I collect clothes, jeans, curtains, tableclo-
ths, sheets. I also take offcuts and samples
from upholsterer’s sales, and seamstresses’
scraps and offcuts. I cut zippers, buttons,
buckles and magnetic snaps. And I also work
with less conventional materials, such as pa-
raglider canvas, protective plastic, a dance
mat. Or skai tapestry from the 60s, salvaged
from the walls of a refurbished apartment. I
test the material. I play with it.

I’m a professional dancer, actress, playwright
and choreographer. I trained as a seamstress
during confinement, before launching this
project where aesthetics and movement
blend with my values. I can explore my crea-
tivity and push its limits, while remaining
aware of the urgency and necessity of offe-
ring ethical, local and responsible fashion.

At present, I work alone from my chalet in the SWISS MOUNTAINS. The imba-
lance between my environment, my lifestyle
and the world of fashion is exciting.

It allows us to explore interstices of which we
are not always aware. Given my art studies
and past experience in the performing arts,
my approach as a designer is sometimes
different. I write before I sew. I put my ques-
tions on paper. Then I have fun answering
them with recycled materials.
My main question is about shock and resi-
lience. The frontier, the edge, the border
between two different worlds. Since I recover
a lot of waste, I’m led to make patchwork. I
recreate a fabric, and then make things in-
side. There are lots of colors. A lot of mixing.
Textures. A whole world is created on each
garment. I explore the cracks. The dangling
threads. The seams. Colors and textures.
Openings. The cracks.

Latest Collection

FABIOLA

This NEW collection for is inspired by
our layers, as if our bodies, our lives and our
thoughts were onions that could be peeled
endlessly.

My general work is based on shock and re-
silience. The boundary between two wor-
lds that meet. That collide. But which build
on each other. Inspired by the work of my
husband, who is a horticulturist and works
on edges and borders. The place that only
exists between two «terrains», only in shock
and resilience; like the edge, for example.
Just like nature, our society works like that
too. I like to have fun putting together things
that weren’t meant to end up together. Co-
lors. Materials. Patterns. But the eye is re-
silient. It sees something else. For I remain
convinced that we are stronger, all together,
because we are different.

Twelve years ago, in theater school, I did my
first project on deconstruction, the emptiness
to be reached in order to rebuild everything.
Today, I like the idea that we’re so full of good
and bad that we never have an empty space.
Above all, I hope to find, beneath the layers
that make up our bodies, the desire to peel
back the skin and explore the world through
our own eyes.
And therefore, the hope of reaching
somewhere else, rather than this same place where we endlessly rehash these same
ideas, ideologies, opinions, wars, in a loop,
in a loop. Through the years.
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On one side, the material. On the other,
words. Between the real and the imaginary.
Between questions and waste. And the dua-
lity of the beautiful and the ugly (who defines
that ?!).