GARCIA BELLO is based on upcycling method. Handmade quality and timeless clothes. Giving value to what already exists and is not in use. Inspired by Patagonia Argentina spirit. Stories that speak of their own, a home as land and shelter. Re-made inThe Netherlands.
ABOUT US
www.garciabello.nl DORADUBAcollection, 2017-2019
— info@garciabello.nl Sketchbook,
THIS GARMENT IS CONNECTED TO MY STORY
The raw material is obtained through donations of unused clothing from the nearby community. The garments received are sorted and prepared for reconstruction. Also deadstock from organizations, stores and companies is reused.
The garments have a label with production details, indicating the unique item number, the year of manufacture and the care that the garment needs to extend its useful life. The labels are handmade from scrap textiles.
Special clothes that remind moments, places or people. When you connect your garments to your story, they become more enduring.
Photo. Mariana Pacho Lopez -ENCUENTRO, Mar del Plata,Argentina
Spread the upcycling methodology. Invite people to learn more about how to extend the useful life of the garments. Sharing videos, zines and workshops with different techniques.
A reconstruction method using outdated clothing and textiles, generating high quality and unique products. Reusing, repairing, renewing and recycling for as long as possible.Extending the useful life of objects.
LABEL
ZERO WASTE PATTERN
WORKSHOPS
ABOUT US
TEXTILES
UPCYCLING
HANDMADE
Two types of modular patterns are used. One standardised the clothes and the other takes advantage of the fabric in rolls, allowing to serialize the clothes.
Working in a simple way with handmade details. Durable, low impact, comfortable and timeless pieces. Made with love and attention in The Netherlands.
1989, Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Clothes and textile designer, FADU, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Every piece we made together says a lot of her home style: patterned dishcloths, white courtains, checked tablecloths, her house dresses and her home life. This collection feels like homemade apple pie just out of Grandma Dora’s oven." 2017, Argentina
"My grandma has been a powerful role model for me – all I know about the trade I’ve learned from her. She’s taught me ways to reuse things that already exist, like those clothes she sent me in a parcel by post, made from others that were no longer used, or like cooking rice fritters from leftover rice. Grandma Dora was born 78 years ago in La Plata, Argentina. She was born in the countryside, close to the river, and lived all of her life in the same place. Maybe that speaks a lot about the way she is. One summer day when I was about eight years old, I saw her putting stitches in her torn shopping bag. She looked at me and said: “One sould always keep an upholstery needle handy, to mend from a shoe to a purse”; and that advice has remained with me till today. For her, fixing things meant giving them a fresh use, extending their useful life, thinking in a sustainable way. When I call on her for mate together, I watch her cut pieces of fabric, fray them at the edges to make a napkin, or manage to make a pot out of a discarded bottle. She gave me the tools to relate to the world with modesty, respect and love. Those gestures have built me as I am. That’s why, every time I think about making clothes, first I think of the range of clothes that exist already. I wanted us to made this together, partly as a way of to say thank you but also as a tribute to and admiration for her. We began to get together at her place. On every meeting we would produce used clothes from a hold-all and we would deconstruct them collage-fashion as it were, and we would give them a new use.
DESIGNER
Photo. Santiago Candelo
Juliana García Bello
JGB, September
Shelter/island/from cold and wind. Memories and knowledge, oral Beautytransmission.ofthedaily life of other ToIdentity.times.Heritage.beholdthebeauty of the land.
ISLEÑA— 007
Photo. Mariana Pacho Lopez - Mar del Plata,Argentina
Collection of up-cycled rainwear produced from recycled plastic. All garments are made post-consumerfrom Maium raincoats and redesigned and assembled in the Netherlands by Garcia Bello. Recycling processes consist of either or both of the following opposite cycles. Downcycling involves converting materials and products into new materials, often of lesser quality.
MAIUM x GARCIABELLO
Photo. Santiago Candelo
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste products, useless or unwanted products into new materials or products perceived to be of greater quality. Both downcycling and upcycling can be perceived as value – adding processes if the alternative (opportunity costs) is to discard materials or products all together – waste.
CASA— 006
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The Patagonian spirit that gave rise to GARCIABELLO; natural, home made and respectful of Contemplateenvironment.thethe immensity of earth and rebirth garments to make clothes that feel like a refuge.
It’s a clothes collection that reflects on connections, limits and borders. Using augmented reality as a means of connection to a sensory proposal that works on public roads. Creating alternative ways to show the collections and call up people to reflect about the industry of fashion.
ENCUENTRO — 005
Photos. Mariana Pacho Lopez - Santiago Candelo
WINNER at Redress Design Award Woman Collection 2020, Hong Kong.
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It was made with clothes donated by neighbors and friends. Using jeans (2), shirts (9) and tablecloths (5). To reuse these garments, a simple production system was generated, with techniques based on reconstruction and zero waste pattern. The garments that are part of this collection have common characteristics because they are part of the same heritage. This collection reflects on the objects related to everyday life and family.
HERENCIA
Vogue HK, Photographer: Karl LamNovember 2020
Photo. Santiago Candelo
It's a collection made in Arnhem, NL. Our new home. We receive donations from neighbors, from neighbors of other neighbors. Select urban clothing (shirts and jeans) and inherited objects (wedding tablecloths). We generate simple garments, combined with bio cotton. Comfortable garments to wear at home, to work, for free time.
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Works on the idea of the land both literally metaphorically.andIt brings up those sensations that come to us when traveling upcountry to the heart of Tierra del Fuego, the most southern place in Latin America. We can recall a shelter made out of a tarp over some trees, or filling a drawer with the items needed to survive in the wild, all of which is strapped with a string and covered with a cloth. It also reminds us of tying a knot in a rope to fasten a mug and throwing it into the river to collect some water. Or spending a day in the wild and surviving the crude Patagonian winter.
Photo. Nazareno Borach - Zanarenco
CAMPO — 002
Photo. Santiago Candelo
DORADUBA— 001
It’s a collection that Juliana Garcia Bello made with her grandmother Dora, in the dining room of her house. In each meet they thought and made clothes reusing garments that they received from neighbors from Buenos Aires, Argentina. The collection is inspired by her childhood. Their relationship sent packages from La Plata, Buenos Aires to Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego. DORA DUBA are all those sensations that were lodged within on box full of gift made by hand; clothes that she made herself with clothes or Textiles in disuse, a bag of fruit candies, a napkin or a flower handkerchief, a vanilla cake, a handwritten letter and all the perfume of grandmother’s house Dora.
Finalist: Fashion open studio COPx26, Fashion Revolution.
— WINNER: Woman Collection at Redress Design Award 2020, Hong Kong.
— Workshop MBFW Russia, Global digital Talent. Russia. Customized garment with patch by Juliana Garcia Bello
2021
— Exhibition: Fashion For Good, Redress Design Award, Netherlands
— Workshop: Fashion Revolution Week, Argentina. Supra Tutoriales: bias band / poncho argentino upcycling.
— Walk in Wardrobe. State of Fashion, Biennal 2022 Arnhem, Netherlands
— Upcycle workshops: repair and reconstruction method, State of Fashion, Biennal 2022 Arnhem, The Netherlands.
— Exhibition: The forest, 17 Nelson Street, Hong Kong.
— Selected: CircoAX30 GB/VX "Spread the up-clicling method"
2017
— WINNER: Fashion Makes Sense Award 2019, Netherlands.
— Fashion show: Mercedes Benz Fashion Week FW21, Russia. Encounter by Juan Borgononi.
— Fashion Open Studio / workshop, September 2021 at Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
— Circular Sustainable Fashion Week, Madrid
— WINNER: “Autores de ModaBA” BAFWEEK, Argentina.
— Río Grande semana de la moda AW20, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
2020
— Festival Fashion Clash SS20, Maastricht, Netherlands.
— Esencia DAB, Bolivia.
— Fashion show: The Hague Fashion Week, The Netherlands.
— WINNER: The Digital Up-cycling challange with TAL and Browzwear
— Exhibition: New Fashion Narratives, Fashion Clash, Netherlands
— Selected by NJAL- TRANOI Paris Fashion Week, France.
— Exhibition: Diálogo en Panorama Store, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2019
2022
— Waardevol / FDFA in Museum of Arnhem, Netherlands
STORY
— CAUCES Moda, diseño y arte contra la corriente. Rosario, Argentina
— Fashion Show: Buenos Aires Fashion Week AW21, Argentina. GARCIABELLO + Natura
— MAIUM x GARCIABELLO, at Bijenkorf, Dutch Design Week. The Netherlads.
— Foundation: GARCIABELLO, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
— Workshop: Investir, Casa Margen sur, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
— RA+3D: Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Russia, Global Talent. Russia.
— Speaker: Buenos Aires Fashion Week (online) Markers, Sustentabilidad.