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tremendous wooden chest packed full of childhood paraphernalia and family mementos dating back to long before I was born. I used to love spending hours rummaging in its depths as a child, inexorably drawn toward the strange items of clothing, each one telling its own story: black knee-high boots with a huge platform heel from my aunt, hats in all sorts of shapes and colours, my grandma‘s lace-trimmed wedding dress. These keepsakes allowed me to create versions of myself from another reality. While dressing up, I lived a thousand lives in these clothes and these clothes lived a thousand lives through me. I loved them as much if not even more as their previous owner, and in return, they gave me back so much joy.
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Thousand Lives takes the audience on a time-travel through my childhood and the bygone days of fashion. I want to revisit the stories of vintage garments, some of them contained, frozen, in old photo albums. Like back then, I will breathe new life into every piece of clothing. My Zine focuses on circular fashion and, therefore, only features used clothing. Using a garment for as long as possible, through good care, repair, refurbishment, and sharing among multiple users over time through rent or lease, second-hand, and swap reduces the impact of the fashion ecosystem on the environment. To fulfill this goal, we will have to achieve a shift in consumer thinking and behavior concerning our current course of overconsumption.
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When When I explained to my friend the topic of this magazine and asked her to participate, she immediately knew which clothing item she wanted to wear: The XXL fleece sweater from her dad. It embodies so many stories of the past, when she was little, which they share— walks in the park, gardening during spring, vacations in the mountains. These moments and the accompanying feelings are endured by this fleece, making it enormously valuable, precious and relevant for her until today.
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My dad and my cousin have a unique relationship. They were both born in a small village called Frielingsdorf in Germany. However, my dad moved away after graduating from school. My cousin still lives with my uncle and aunt, my other cousins and my grandparents in this beautiful place surrounded by the greenest fields I have ever seen. My dad loves visiting his former home. Watching my cousin, who is also his godchild, grow up, reminds him of the times when he was young. She went to the same primary school as he did. She went to the same high school as he did. And she went to the same youth and sports club as he did. I can see in his eyes how he is reliving the days of his childhood whilst talking to her. My cousin is wearing my dad‘s scarf, which he got for Christmas when he was as young as she is now. It is symbolic of his past days.
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STORIES ARE NOT DISPOSABLE
SPECIAL THANKS ELKE MEIER
JOHANNA MEIER
HOLGER STEINHAUER
MICHELLE STEINHAUER
HELGA LISCHKE
MORITZ LISCHKE
TRAUDEL FUCHS
TINA LISCHKE
ANKE PFEIFER
LENA PFEIFER
PETER LISCHKE
JAN PETER LISCHKE
OLAF LISCHKE
JOHANNA LISCHKE
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