Toby Crispy
Toby is founder of FashionClinic by T has worked in different sectors and roles in the fashion field ranging from a magazine editor to a fashion designer for international brands. She worked as design manager at French label agnès b. before starting her upcycling fashion journey in 2013. Since then, Toby has been focusing on redesigning fashion services and upcycling textile art, curating exhibitions, workshops, and events with various fashion brands, corporate, NGOs, and art groups. She seeks to propose benefits to clothing-making beyond fashion, and to ‘stitch’ together a sustainable future.
Bringing Fashion Clinic to life in 2016, she added ‘by T’ in 2020 to highlight the ‘Time’ and ‘Tales’ in textiles which are worth to pass down from generation to generation. Also an independent curator, Toby blends into her sustainable design practice the space for personal meditation and social healing. Through her SLOW STiTCH NOMAD art projects, she reconnects the relationship between people and clothing, as well as demonstrates how design responds to sustainable living.