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Ecopolitan is a cosmopolitan and a bon vivant! The wish is to keep life beautiful and vibrant on our planet Earth. By inspiring and challenging other global citizens to strut in fashion with a future. A platform for designers and brands that embrace sustainable & circular fashion.
Consuming fashion differently for a better future. Having the courage to enter into a long-term relationship with fashion. Fashion is like a second skin. Wrapping ourselves in clothes as a form of self-worth and self-expression. A capsule fashion collection in your own wardrobe. For a different look, styling this with clothes borrowed from a clothing library. Enjoying fashion together for longer by swapping and repairing.
Producing fashion differently with more respect for the fashion maker and the environment. Fashion brands remain responsible for the clothing they produce. Combating the textile waste mountain by producing less. Choosing fashion made ‘by order’ from good quality fabrics and with a timeless design. Or making fashion yourself: DIY.
Living and doing business together based on alternative forms of economy, such as the meaningful or circular economy.
ECOPOLITAN magazine is a total work of art, an idea by Map Renes. For this, she collects fashion & people stories for a shared narrative. Creating a magazine is an action for “Fashion Revolution”. In addition to the social aspect, the magazine is increasingly transforming into a circular fashion magazine. The digital and physical magazine is published annually in the spring.
ECOPOLITAN magazine is a place for dialogue. A meeting to inform and inspire one another. The content of the magazine can serve as inspiration to organize a meetup.
ECOPOLITAN is the follow-up to FRISGROEN and Groenkapje. Since 2009, Map Renes has been devising green initiatives to enthuse others about an eco-conscious lifestyle. FRISGROEN party as a communication tool! Groenkapje as a hostess or as a catwalk model at sustainable fashion shows.
Groenkapje has outgrown her Zwolle dress; she feels more like a cosmopolitan. And so it happened; during COVID-19 in 2020, it was a suitable moment for a rebranding to ECOPOLITAN.
People and fashion often take center stage in her ideas. Driven by creativity and a visionary outlook, she aims to inspire others to make different choices for a better world.
After graduating from art school, I founded MAPSZ – Model Agency Production Styling. For over 20 years, I created and produced promotional shows for international hair and cosmetics brands such as Goldwell, L’Oréal, and Wella. In addition, she devised her own fashion projects.
Like a special project, OOGverblindendMOOI, in 2007. Visually impaired young people and sighted buddies presented a fashion show together for a sighted audience. The idea arose from a shift in perspective: the realization of living in a visually oriented world. What is it like to have a visual impairment? In collaboration with Bartiméus. Fashion as a framework for empowerment among the youth.
In 2009, I organized FRISGROEN, one of the first sustainable fashion and lifestyle events in the Netherlands.
After the Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013, I hosted a “FrisMode Café” with talks and clothing swaps to raise awareness of the fashion industry’s impact. Around the same time, I also started making circular fashion. As a fashion service ‘made by order’. These are handmade salmon leather skirts, called ‘look-alike’ skirts.
In 2016, i was asked to be guest editor for Pulp de Luxe Magazine and compiled the magazine for Fashion Revolution. During the 2020 lockdown, I launched the first edition of ECOPOLITAN Magazine as an alternative to a planned Fashion Revolution Talk, together with her husband Richard Vermijs, who is a graphic designer.
Fashion activism through storytelling is fully aligned with who I am and the work I choose to create.
To inspire as many people as possible, ECOPOLITAN Magazine can be read digitally via ISSUU and in a small print run.
