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While she works on her own new collection, she is also starting an Erasmus internship at a graphic design company in France.

In July, she will release a joint collection with her brother Loan, who runs the activist fashion line Kérosène.

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The skin of angora rabbits is not carefully shaved, it is usually just ripped off their bodies, skin and all.” Verbanck now only buys sustainable clothing and she hasn’t been to Zara for a year and a half. Using the computer programme Photosounder, I transformed the wailing of an angora rabbit into images that I then lasered onto my collection. About the what? “People often just talk about slow fashion, but that sounds so naïve and well-meaning. Everyone knows that Primark clothing is made by children, but did you know that the Aral Sea dried up due to cotton production, that thousands of farmers in India committed suicide under the pressure of their killer contracts with Monsanto, and that half of all clothing is thrown away?” Verbanck was shocked and that literally becomes clear in her master’s collection, for which she used recycled clothes to highlight data about the fast fashion industry. “My first idea for my master’s project was to do something about the polluting meat industry, but one of my teachers, who knew that I was interested in ecology, suggested that I start looking into the sustainability of the fashion industry. She studied Fashion at school in Aalst and enrolled in Graphic Design partly because she was looking for a broader programme but also because the fashion world seemed too cutthroat. Matti Verbanck admits that two years ago, she was still a shopaholic and that she would go to Zara almost every day.

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