Durkan Draws Inspiration from the Arts for Latest Collection

In the second installment of Durkan’s collaboration with the Museum of International Folk Art, Spirit Moderne has drawn inspiration from scrap culture and revived and infused it with a contemporary aesthetic.

“This year, we chose to go with the Folk Art side because we send a couple designers to Milan Design Week every year, and the big theme at Milan Design Week last year was scrap culture,” Elizabeth said Bonner, creative design director. “Textural waste is the largest offender in landfills and with fast fashion, people are buying things, wearing them a couple times, donating them and then donation centers are so overwhelmed, they end up shipping those things off to landfills instead of them actually getting used. So we were trying to be cognizant of the role we play in that. We felt like the Folk Art side was a fun side to draw inspiration from because they are traditionally scrap artists, they work with a lot of found objects.”