IED Kunsthal Bilbao has presented the upcycling collection TALKAK within the framework of Fashion Revolution Week Euskadi, reaffirming its commitment to a more sustainable, critical, and contextually engaged approach to fashion.
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TALKAK: fashion, historical memory and upcycling at Fashion Revolution Week Euskadi
Date
27 April 2026
Developed by third-year students of The Bachelor of Arts in Design, specialising in Fashion Design within the Styling course, the collection is based on garments recovered through a collaboration with Koopera. These pieces have been transformed through processes of redesign, experimentation, and upcycling, resulting in new garments with enhanced value and meaning derived from existing materials. The project highlights in-depth material and technical research, ranging from textile manipulation to the exploration of new finishes and volumes.
TALKAK, “cracks” in Basque, takes as its starting point the idea of memory as a fragmented territory, approaching Spain’s historical memory from a contemporary perspective. The pieces do not represent the past in a literal way, but rather activate it through textures, layering, and tensions between the visible and the hidden.
The presentation, developed in collaboration with Fashion Revolution, brought together sustainability, narrative, and creative practice, highlighting the role of design as a tool to rethink what is inherited.
Some of the looks from the collection will soon be displayed in the window of the Koopera store in Bilbao’s Old Town, bringing this initiative closer to the public and the city in a new edition of this collaboration.
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