Story Wear X Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition

Here has an exhibition about sustainable fashion at Huashan 1914, Taiwan Fashion Label : Story Wear, cooperates with Dr. Chang Li-Chuan to hole the exhibition to show people to tell the issue — Zero Waste Fashion.

Alucard Chen
《臥鵬居》|by Alucard Chen
6 min readDec 11, 2020

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As a member of global market, the Taiwan Fashion label Story Wear whose gene has a environmental protection, sustainable fashion features at beginning. Reused Denim and Abandoned fabric is the brand’s cloths, especially the former.

The Words mean : Zero Waste Fashion, the slogan are sewn on products

Power of Zero

Why Story Wear choose denim? Every one part of denim pants which need a lot of water to make. According to water footprint record, one part of denim pants needs 3,781 kg of water. What’s the concept? if we common person has to drink 1,800 g of water, 3,781 kg of water need us to drink above 2,000 days, it equal to more than 5 yrs to make one part of denim pants!!

The world has countless denim products, we human-being has used a lot of water to make Fashion clothing. REUSED cloth is becoming main value these yrs in Fashion industry. Collect abandon denim and ribbon, is one part of the collection’s fabric.

Story Wear X Chang Li-Chuan

Dr. Chang Li-Chuan is a Chinese Calligrapher whose creative skill is usually uses in “print” as the main way, it replaces people used to “write”, “draw”. This collection at the exhibition tells issues about disease, terrorism and environment(mountain peaks, it hints pressures) make people want to escape(floating, floating mountain).

Floating mountain, live in the misty environment. Will this carrying capacity be too much ? Is our hope can be true?

Some of Story Wear clothing has Dr. Chang Li-Chuan’s print which means people face to difficult when escaping out of earth to seek a suitable planet. Both are the artist/brand to tell us to reflect what we live, please forgive ourselves, release earth.

Story Wear X L’OREAL

Except from Dr. Chang Li-Chuan, Stroy Wear cooperates with L’OREAL as well. Because these years L’OREAL recognizes the important project of sustainable development. Such as energy, raw materials, transportation… even serves the disadvantaged are the projects L’OREAL doing.

Combine with reused denim cloth and L’OREAL abandon uniform, also you can explain the style is mix with street and department store. Different fabrics, features, collar shapes and hem height compose as the clothing. The behind of suture isn’t sewn at the middle position. The special design makes Alucard impressive!!

Abandon cloth and uniform are assembled to a new clothing. Same as the previous one, different touch in one clothing make the wearer special experience.

Story Wear Products

Different from other label, Story Wear shows every product which be spent weaving time. In the other hand, every product shows whose ID and made by who. Both explain the Brand’s responsibility and values — Public production records and available product origin.

At the left pic, the left item is a shawl which made of abandon cotton cloth and be sewn with VOGUE & Story Wear LOGO. The shawl is may 90 cm length for 4 sides. Below is the look to put on the shawl around neck.

Story Wear uses abandon denim & cloth to recover, remake new life. Even though some are the same type, different cloths to make every product is unique. The bottom right product, unobvious pocket is at suture.

The product is Alucard favorite. It is straight, slim, comfortable and has three pockets. Flat, wrinkled surface interweave at the same side. The clothing matches Alucard’s shape (171cm, 56kg). Cause Story Wear’s products are made of abandon denim fabric, it’s the only !!

This one is Alucard’s the second. It has over 6 types at one side including in front chest, sleeve and buckle cloth; in addition to this, the hat can be connected or disassembled. Dark blue and light blue interweave to form a unique item. It says Story Wear designer’s skill is professional!!

Story Wear accessories including coin purse, earrings cloth, handbag, tote bag…etc. All different denim blues are combined to become various the second life for zero waste fashion lovers.

Summary

Alucard knows the Taiwan Fashion label in the period of Taipei Fashion Week 20 SS21 at BELLAVITA. Bellow THE SHOW even makes Alucard has deep impressive, the great issue and slogan

NEXT WAR IS NOT OIL, BUT WATER

Alucard wears the clothing is comfortable and nice slim, type; every product almost unique. As a member of global, Taiwan Fashion Label Story Wear walks with us to live the sustainable developing environment and vision.

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