Sara Cihat
While earning her product design degree at Parsons School of Design in New York, Sarah Cihat came up with the idea of “rehabilitating” the unwanted dishware she found in thrift stores. The idea was an exercise in sustainability, to give those discarded, once-loved objects a second life by reglazing them with bold new designs, thereby rejecting the consumer quest for brand new products. Over the past four years, Cihat has been reglazing and refiring thrift shop crockery with an ever-increasing array of graphic silhouettes, more typically associated with tattoos and mudflaps: dogs, a rock star, skull and crossbones, anchor, cassette tape and naked lady. The project’s runaway success impelled Cihat to take some time off “rehab” work to develop a new line of hand-cast porcelain pieces with an edgy theme, named appropriately, Dirt.

White cotton jacket with green outline, matching button down shirt,
green and white stripe cotton shorts by ISSEY MIYAKE
BY NAOKI TAKIZAWA, hat and glasses by PAUL SMITH,
belt by CALVIN KLEIN and shoes by COSTUME NATIONAL HOMME.
Samsung DVD camcorder SC-DC575