Our Family Member Marco Blažević, continues his story of working class heroes and other characters at the edges of our society. With his streetwear brand the Humble Hustle, he creates authentic pieces with a humble mindset regarding growth and sustainability.
Being a queer person, with both a migration and working-class background have shaped Marcos practice in up-cycling and initiating communities. It has made them sensible to inequalities in society, forcing them to learn how to claim space as an individual. It has taught them to be resourceful and creative with limited ingredients making up-cycling their main methodology naturally. To them, up-cycling is more than a mode of production but can serve as holistic strategy to up-cycle the fashion system itself. All this trickles into striving for and implementing more inclusive, democratic, and resourceful ways of making fashion.
Marcos upbringing has made them humble and forced to hustle, which inspired their streetwear brand The Humble Hustle. With its rough and messy design language it emphasises the struggle and „mud“ working class people are facing.
Through their background they value community and family as the most valuable resource of all. That is why they initiated a collective of young queer makers to claim space in the industry: The Patchwork Family.
With their BA graduation in Fashion Design they won the first shared price at Lichting 2021. Since then they produced performative shows at Fashion Weeks in Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris and London while also showing their work as a designer. As a party producer and curator of performances they organise events at Club Church and Poing Club.
