![]() ![]() “The last big migration was to the Americas now it’s a tech migration onto the internet,” he explains. Noki is keenly interested in how modern times are inextricably tied to technology. The Noki NESTT will continue to drive sustainability, custom creations, and reinvention. It’s all a case of waste commodity and what can be done with it in the community.” “This landfill stuff is a raw commodity and stuff we have already in abundance to create new ideas. ![]() He considers landfill contents a source of inspiration. Sustainability is intrinsically tied to his creative process. It was my way of saying, ‘I’m getting my head around true sustainability.'” That mask, created using a second-life T-shirt, stretched over your face can be easily identified and recreated, rebuilt in your bedroom, atelier, by anyone, youth or elder. It’s a creative solution in my art practice. Never seen without a mask, Noki says his aesthetic is an important symbol of sustainability in the avant-garde fashion scene. Noki’s own look is just as recognizable as his art. Noki has a personal motto, “rejection breeds reinvention.” Someone declaring something waste grants Noki the opportunity to create. ![]() The human has decided to throw out and declare an imperfect garment for me to use now,” he explains. “Learning the craft of collage drives my art narrative into the right imperfection. Using discarded clothes, Noki embraces items someone has chosen to reject, reflecting the purpose behind his craft. Noki’s creative inspiration has centered not only around rebellion but the rejection from society that often precedes it. The school’s Instagram bio reads, “a new school for modernist indie thinking students into high fashion custom build design concepts.” He has never been the kind of artist afraid of going against the status quo and is opening a design school, The Noki NESTT (Noki Education of Sustainable Textiles and Technology), in Brighton, England, to instill the same renegade thinking in the next generation. He explains, “when you live by the rave mashup, you die by the rave mashup…it was a way to reject the ’90s while the ’90s was still going on.” And the designer still lives by the rave mashup, creating the same punk-inspired, rebellious clothing today as he did then. It all started in ’90s London Noki was involved in the rave scene, weaving punk into everything he created. He is considered an upcycling trailblazer, having been reviving textiles for over 20 years. Noki is no newbie when it comes to creating sustainable fashion. “I want people to feel an overfamiliarity with what they are looking at, yet they are really rather unsure about what they are looking at, therefore always questioning why they are feeling an inner contentment,” says Noki over email to Mission. The iconic (and eccentric) designer is known for ripping up old clothes, mashing up the pieces, and creating something new, something recycled, and something that leaves viewers with questions. Textile artist and fashion designer Noki sees no difference between the human body and a canvas. The London-based designer talks the ’90s rave scene, his own masked uniform, and how upcycling is a form of rebellion. ![]()
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