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Design Manager is the sample in which fashion designers present their creations based on economics, recycling, traditions and more.

Fashion, economics, traditions, painting and recycling were the topics on which work eight designers from the textile industry ticos. They submitted their designs in the sample of Responsible Design.

These designs were created from sustainable practices and the public's already noticeable in the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, National Cultural Center (Cenac).

Hugo Pineda, the curator of the exhibition, which also covers other design-explained that it was difficult to select the eight projects on display, as it competed many textile designers to be part of Design Manager.

Visitors to the show will have the opportunity to not only see but to interact with these designs, many of which are unique creations and not just for mass consumption.

Below, we offer a tour of these designs, according to what Viva observed in the sample and the impressions of their designers.

Recycling. The culture of recycling was one of the elements that had much presence in textile design.

Leather handbags made from second hand clothes is the proposal submitted Yara Salazar and his mother, Marta Hidalgo.

"It goes back (collection name and brand of handbags) you are looking to recover items that have already served their useful life. We took advantage and give a new life. The final product is leather handbags with unique design, "said Salazar.

In the sample, these two women devised a very clever way to present his proposal: he took pictures of the garments that were produced bags, inserted in cardboard and placed next to their designs, for visitors to see where out their creations.

Newsprint and wood chips gave rise to the designer Sidhartta Mejia to present the collection branch, consisting of hats and shoes.

"This is everyday clothing intervene with a mixture made of newspaper, (which is the raw material) inlaid with different types of wood," said the designer.

At the show, designed by Mejia hats hang from branches which were prepared, and shoes are placed on the leaves of trees and on newspaper.

Wit and art. Under the idea of eco-design and fabricate fine art, artist José Luis German, Zawate, introduced three unique pieces under the name Imprezionable.

Shoes are treated waste material created, such as textiles that are made with umbrellas. This serves to waterproof footwear airplane tire used on the ground next to the leather used.

"The project was born seven years ago, inspired by my father, a shoemaker's craft. My goal is to make shoes that can withstand the weather conditions of the country and raise awareness that we live in a world with limited resources, "said German.

At the show, he combined his designs with a craft workshop where they are produced. This includes molds of shoes, leather tools and fabrics.

By three mannequins, accompanied by three photographs of supermodel Leonora Jimenez, Carlos Villalobos designer explains his project: Static. The photos were taken by Armando Del Vecchio.

Villalobos express their art in skirts, blouses and a dress made in biodegradable plastics and textiles. For its part, reflected the artist Fabio Herrera cats one of his works in these designs.

A video animation (with a Motion Graphics technology) was the way that designers and Ingrid Cordero Oscar Ruiz (of Pepegrillochachachá) presented his collection of vintage. This technique is based on designs clothing made of other times and considered classics today.

The video shows a fashion show, whose dolls are role models parade down a catwalk that paper also, in 1:1 scale, Ruiz said.

'Indigenous'. Borucas women fabrics are the raw material of Indigenous, the proposal presented by Alvaro Nunez.

"This project seeks to rescue the roots of Costa Rican culture. Native products are not subject to industrial processes, "said the designer, who create their designs came in direct contact with the indigenous community.

The flora and fauna of the country comes alive in the bags provided by the designer Montserrat Ramirez, who is inspired by various pictures of nature to give life.

She also exposes the sample to foliage, a dress inspired by the volcano Poas.

"My work seeks to find how nature, through textile materials to identify the Costa Rica," said the designer on your project.

With the idea of not polluting and hiring household heads in rural areas, Natascha Moscoa created the line of handbags Hypno 'Green, which was exhibited at the Cenac.

These bags are hand painted, made from recyclable material and unique.

Those interested in knowing about these projects will have enough time to do so because the sample will be exposed Responsible Design until 21 January 2010.

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