ECOenVIE Nr.13 23.11.2015 | Page 28

KOMODO KOMODO Pioniere – Menschen, die uns bewegen Ein Interview mit Mark Alex Bloom – Gründer und Inhaber des Labels Komodo aus London Interview: Gabriele Perryman Mark, woher kommt der Name We started in ’88, in Bali and we were all „Komodo“? about Acid House! There was a social re- Where does the name “Komodo” comes volution going on and we just loved being from? in the middle of it. No-one had thought It comes from a big dragon I once met, of the idea of an “ecological label” back who wanted to eat me. I never forgot her! then. I was amused by the very thin line between reality and mythology and I noticed Was war Dein Beweggrund, ökologische that the name has an “à la mode” edge Mode herzustellen und Ökostoffe zu ver- and sounds like it belongs in lots of lan- wenden? guages. It also impressed me that these Why and when did you decide to use ecolo- dragons are, being pre-historic, great gical fabrics in your collection? survivors, and in this business that could be a useful trait to inherit! Working in Nepal in 1992, I first came across some pretty rough hemp fabric – I Das hat sich ja auch bewahrheitet: Euer Mo- read about it and thought we should use delabel „Komodo“ ist eines der ältesten some and tell people about it. The fab- Brands auf dem Ökomarkt. Wurde es schon ric was ... well, ropey – but we started to damals als ökologisches Label gegründet? form our direction from this. Was your fashion label “Komodo” an ecological label from the very beginning? 28 ECOenVIE Nr. 15