Eco-Designer, One-Day Fashion Lab

Name: Eco-Designer, One-Day Fashion Lab
Start: 2026-06-12T23:00:00+12:00
End: 2026-06-13T07:00:00+12:00
Location: NMIT

Schedule

Fri, 12 Jun, 2026 at 11:00 pm to Sat, 13 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 am

UTC+12:00

Location

NMIT | Nelson, NE

Led by Larisse Hall
This fun and simplified one-day workshop will encourage recycling and upcycling to create a newly updated and 'one off individualised item of fashion’. Ready to be worn everyday. This is a planet friendly class that endorses slow and sustainable fashion practices.
Embracing the whakatauki ‘Manaaki whenua, Manaaki taangata, Haere whakamua’ ‘Care for the land, care for the people, so we may go forward’
Students will learn easy 'design' and mending adaptations.
While sewing simple fit alterations
The focus is on developing sustainable planet friendly, fashion awareness. While embracing fun and creative slow fashion skills.
An international award-winning artist living in Nelson, New Zealand, Hall combines traditional techniques of painting and form with the science and colour of infused physical light to produce works of art that live and breathe, transforming over time. Her work acknowledging time as our most precious commodity.
Larisse's painting practice has developed significantly since 2008, when she left her position in the fashion industry to pursue her art practice full time. Never fully separating her two worlds; they are now intrinsically intertwined, each feeding and enriching the other.
Once asked to separate her artist self from her creative being, she realized that each inspires the other and together they make her whole.
Environmentally aware, her art and classes encourage sustainability. This, combined with her organic approach to her garden and life, supports the whakatauki:
'Manaaki whenua, manaaki tangata, haere whakamua'
'Care for the land, care for the people, so we may go forward