The next two years we’ll be making 100 t-shirts a green statement. Every week we’ll be collaborating with artists and designers who are creating, repairing, styling their t-shirts. What is their story? First person in the spotlight: Cote, from Cotecreate. She makes amazing illustrations, is stadskunstenaar (city artist) in Leeuwarden and she can give color & patterns to almost every item you have. Shoes, jackets, shirts, but also walls, cards, you name it. She can probably color a whole universe with her ideas. So we’re pleased to have her here 😀
1. Tell us, how did you start Cotecreate?
Last year, in 2019, I arrived in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands and a month later I decided to start with Cotecreate. A dream that came into my head and I didn’t doubt any second to make it real. I didn’t know anybody, had no friends, no family, no contacts…so I thought…
How can I start? I literally went into the streets and walked everywhere until I found a place where somebody was open to listen to my story and help me out with a contact… that was the beginning of everything. I did contact one person and they helped me by giving me another contact and so on. I started officially with Cotecreate by making the bag of Leeuwarden.
With that, my journey started, it kept going, and I’m super happy and grateful to be surrounded by amazing and creative people.
2. What are your dreams?
I live my life day by day making my dreams reality. Cotecreate Studio is one of them. I have so many dreams hahaha…it is difficult to pick just some of them. Maybe one of the big ones is to be able to use art as a tool to help people to express and develop themselves, use the art as something helpful and meaningful for the problems society faces.
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More about Cote?
You can check out her FOR KEEPS Guide profile here, or her Instagram <3.