Journal
Our Fellow Practitioners of Change
Threads of Change: Textile Practitioners Weaving New Futures
While am.gabrie textiles stand apart in research format, they share core values with a number of contemporary textile practitioners. This entry reflects on four artists and designers whose practices resonate in spirit—Cara Marie Piazza, Paula Ulargui Escalona, Piero D’Angelo, and Mad by Mad (Mata Durikovic). Their work spans natural dye, bio-based material experimentation, seasonless design, and the invitation of nature as co-creator.
Though some create garments and others work through installation or research, all explore materials as living, ethical textiles. This is not a comparison, but a recognition of shared ground.
Mapping the Ecosystem: Textiles for Brands with Purpose & Individuals with Vision
Who am.gabrie Textiles Are For
The textiles developed under am.gabrie are rooted in slow processes, biodegradable materials, and an ongoing dialogue with nature. This journal entry maps out who they are made for—primarily brands with sustainability at their core like Stella McCartney, Gabriela Hearst, and Mara Hoffman, whose values are embedded in regenerative thinking and material innovation.
It also considers design-led houses like Erdem, Dior, and Roksanda—whose visual languages invite textural storytelling. Beyond industry, these textiles are created for individuals, artists, and potential collaborators—those who, like Human Touch, explore themes of tactility, connection, and awareness through performative or interdisciplinary practices.
This is an open invitation: to imagine am.gabrie textiles not as static swatches or research archives, but as evolving materials—ready to be reinterpreted, worn, and loved.
Brand Positioning
Textile as Philosophy: Positioning am.gabrie in the Sustainable Fashion Ecosystem
This entry reflects on where am.gabrie sits within the evolving fashion and textile landscape—not as a conventional brand, but as a platform for material research and storytelling; biodegradable innovation and exploration; and emotional surface work. Positioned between research and practice, the work offers an alternative to both trend-led fashion and overly strip back minimalist design systems.
By centering slowness, tactility, and care, it opens a quiet space: one where sustainability isn’t just part of the narrative, but embedded into the structure of making, leaving an imprint of the environment, the artist, and the wearer.