La Goutte d'Or in gardening mode

La Goutte d'Or in gardening mode: a 100% "Made in Goutte d'Or" project, based on an original idea by Luc Dognin, president of the association of fashion and design professionals of La Goutte d'Or. The photos are by Erwan Floch.

Everything is ruined. Glaciers are melting, temperatures are rising, the sea is rising, warming up, drought, hail, floods, mega fires, everything is going haywire.

It's already too late. We'll soon have pumped everything out, the gas, the phosphate that makes plants grow, the oil that warms the atmosphere. Here and there, we're already fighting over water. It's our fault, apparently.

There are too many of us. Too much transportation, too many air conditioners. Too self-centered, too superficial. It's been going on for too long, and it's exponential.

Yes, but then... if our actions together have enough power to destroy the planet, other actions can change the trajectory. Collectively too, hummingbird style. It makes sense.

In Paris, for example, in the Goutte d'Or district. They are increasingly popping up at the corner of the streets: here new flowerbeds overflowing with flowers, there new-style flowerbeds that explode the asphalt. Or plant circles are concocted around the trees. Sometimes it is the work of our municipal gardeners, sometimes the initiative of residents, in associations, collectives, or simply between neighbors.

On the occasion of the Montmartre Harvest, we present the actors of this urban transformation in gardener's outfits, made at the Goutte d'Or and in the decor of their luxuriant works. Made by the Atelier partagé, a space of the Pôle des Gouttes d'Or de la Mode & du Design, a true laboratory of new forms of work, of pooling of means and skills in the professions of sewing and clothing.

And here are the project's stakeholders connecting. We start to dream of their junction, the neighborhood transformed into an urban forest. In all equality! Revolutionary but also a nod to its original state: the Goutte d'Or, which takes its name from a once famous white wine, whose vines were grown on its... hillsides.