AKKA is a sustainable design label that critically examines the relationship between technology and tradition in the dressing culture. As we always start from the tradition, either by acknowledging or denying it, it rethinks the conventional pattern making and sewing practice, as well as the space between the body and cloth.

Current sewing practices are considered obsolete, therefore the intention is to use more advanced machines that reduce exhausting manual labor and produce garments on demand. Pattern is at the core of the design. It is made in software, thus adapted for laser cutting or 3D printing. As no sewing is required, the seams are made as joints, so the elements are later folded into the garment by hand. Such joints allow for modular design. Modular garments can be assembled and reassembled, which ensures that they will not be discarded as soon as one part is damaged. Digital patterns have the advantage of being easily downloaded anywhere and printed / laser cut at the nearest MakerSpace or FabLab. No transportation. No CO2 emissions. No packaging.

Aleksandra Lalatovic Dzakovic is an architect who gained her master’s degree at the Bauhaus in Dessau, focusing on radical pedagogies. She graduated from the University of Podgorica and Ljubljana. Since 2016, she’s been working as a conservation architect at the Administration for the protection of cultural heritage in Montenegro, specifically working for the UNESCO Region of Kotor. Apart from architecture, she has recently entered the world of fashion by merging technologies with a local cultural heritage with her fashion label AKKA.

www.akka.me