Behind the Scenes at RISD Designing Cardigans for Gap

Following their collaboration with Threadless back in November, our friends at the Rhode Island School of Design dropped us a line to let us know about their most recent project: designing cardigans for Gap. The clothing retailer asked the school to come up with something new and interesting to do for a limited-edition run, giving a very open guideline of just “keep them wearable.” So the students and faculty got together, used materials like beads made from recycled paper, vintage lace, and something called tulle (which we had to look up — turns out it’s a kind of “lightweight, very fine netting”).