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Clémentine Sandner was a finalist for the Redress Design Award 2013 and also the Redress Design Award 2015/16 Alumni Prize Winner. In 2013, she launched a sustainable fashion brand in her base of Japan. Recently rebranded,Mikan(recently rebranded) now focuses on the creation of unique accessories using reconstruction techniques on antique silk kimonos combined with high performance fabrics. Clémentine conducts sewing workshops in Kyoto and abroad, raising awareness around up-cycling and DIY projects.

Since participating in the competition, Clémentine has also received first prize in the Fashion Zakka Design Competition 2014 in Japan, and launched her AW15/16 collection at Tokyo Fashion Week 2015. She holds a Fashion Design and Creation Degree from ESMOD Lyon and completed the Accessing Mode Identity (A.M.I.) programme from ESMOD Tokyo in March 2015. Clementine was also a design instructor at ESMOD Kyoto for 4 years.

To me sustainable fashion is self-evident. As the future availability of natural resources is more and more debated, it is important to think about new ways of producing. Today, I cannot imagine being a fashion designer without thinking about fashion’s future. – Clémentine Sander

Redress Design Award collection

For her Redress Design Award 2013 collection (formerly the EcoChic Design Award), Clémentine was inspired by Jason deCaire Taylor’s underwater sculpture park, Vicissitudes, where, without any human intervention, sculptures were eventually taken over by coral. Inspired by this natural phenomenon, 

Clémentine created her own fabric using leftover textiles from her own production and secondhand clothes sourced from charity shops in France. She cut scraps and garments into small pieces and re-assembled them into new fabrics, produced according to the pattern of each garment in order to use only what was needed. 

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