FASHION-able

Counterfeit Crochet Project by Stephanie Syjuco
is a web-site soliciting crocheters to join her in hand-
counterfeiting designer handbags: Gucci, Louis Vuitton
or whatever you would fancy. Participants troll the
internet and choose a design that they particularly covet,
download a low-resolution image which they enlarge
to full size. This image they copy pixel-by-pixel into a
low-resolution handbag - both an homage and a lumpy
mutation. It is thus not so much a question of “subvert-
ing” the brand economy as much as celebrating it with
DIY techniques. To bend the power injected into the
objects of desire and lead it into ones own craftsmanship.
It is also important for Syjuco to share patterns and
techniques and everything you need to start counterfeiting
is available at her site.