The Future of Fashion

THE DESIGNERS OF PAMOYO GO OPEN SOURCE. BY VICTORIA EVERMAN

Fashion designers are notorious for their fragile egos. But the creators of Pamoyo, a clothing line based in Berlin, have enough confidence in their designs to welcome input from the public at large.

“Our designs are open source,” says 26-year-old Cecilia Palmer, the Swedish co-founder of Pamoyo, which makes its clothing patterns freely available

online. “We invite people — designers and craftivists — to join the creative process: to use our designs, redesign, and develop them.”

Palmer and Frans Prins, a 28-year-old Dutch designer, set up Pamoyo in the heart of Berlin last year. “[Berlin is] a very inspiring place to live and work,” says Palmer, “with the mix of subcultures, under- and overground, cliché and trash, and a

Photography courtesy of Pamoyo