COLLECTION FOR WORK AND REBELLION / 2004-2006
pattern by Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, models by Sandra Straukaite / 100 % linen / www.vilma.cc/ruta_remake
The point of departure for the fashion collection was a discussion with Lithuanian fashion designer Sandra Straukaite about restrictions on wearing the burka and chador in public in France and Germany. It also proceeds from a Russian media phantasm, the “White Ruta” group, a battalion of snipers from the Baltic, supposedly consisting of women, who played a subversive role in the aftermath of the guerrilla war in Chechnya.
Analysing the political norms of East and West, the design of camouflage fabric was developed and printed with rues: a reinterpretation of the headscarf discovered in the film sequence in the textile factory.
The found footage from the film archive of a weaving factory in Kaunas suggests the discovery of a headscarf with the ruta pattern, worn by female workers. As a kind of chador, the headscarf is an inevitable part of the uniform. 
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“Collection for work and rebellion” started with a limited edition of headscarves which later developed into a series of unisex work clothes made in pure linen textile and distributed at the Ruta Remake online fashion kiosk. www.vilma.cc/rrshop
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