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
