Toktam Hemmati

Toktam Hemati

Born in 1977 (Mashhad, Iran)

Fashion Designer & Fiber Artist

She has started his professional activities with fashion and stage designing for theaters and short films since 1997 and today she cooperates as fashion designer and fiber artist with artistic cultural-industrial projects of brands and reputable companies of Iran and world. Her activities are primarily based on study and evaluation of sustainability concept in Iranian culture and identity context and also on industrial projects and sustainable fashions such as Behance, fashion revelation, open studio project, etc. Her other activities are various workshops and speeches concerning sustainable fashion, tapestry, recycle art, designing of fashion industry projects, experiential designing, zero-waste design, sustainable design, and presentation of works in different colleges and cities, and judging works of various festivals in Iran. Also, she has been going into teaching in university since 2002. Her works have been published in some magazines and entered into exhibitions of Iran and world, and also in exhibition projects and various books.

Stable reincarnation

Upcycle art is a form of recycling that, in addition to reducing the amount of waste that is present as pollution in the environment, mainly affects solid waste (which the fabric is a large part of)(and its adverse effects on health and the environment.

Perhaps it can be said that it is a form of reincarnation that returns to life and life by reusing materials that have ended their lives.

“The end point of municipal solid waste is their indiscriminate accumulation without recycling or burning them” These massive places of waste hold massive volumes that can be recycled in some way. The reuse and recycling of recyclable materials in the production of artwork will lead to a reduction in the use of new raw materials in the production process.

This work was shaped by its sustainability approach and its relationship to art. 100 Percent of the raw materials of this work include solid waste (fabric) jammed from the round-up of my personal studio clothing design collections in these years, according to the philosophy of reincarnation of objects ، has become an art.