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?
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