Ocean. Now! – Under Your Skin

Under Our Skin is a co-creative, media-based project that addresses the problem of microplastics in fashion. A series of visual portraits brings five key issues related to the production of polyester fabric to the public’s attention. What does it take to reduce microfibre pollution?

CLIENT

Ocean. Now!

CATEGORY

Portrait

Part 1 – OIL EXTRACTION

Frivolous aka Daniel Gardner – Musician

“We need measures to keep companies accountable for their environmental footprint when it comes to importing harmful products.”

Viola Wohlgemuth – Head of Policy & Campaigns, Fashion Revolution Germany

“The time for plastic textiles made from oil and gas is over. It’s madness that we carry plastic bags and poison ourselves and contaminate this planet.”

Helena Marschall – Activist Fridays for Future

“We need policies that finally take the problem seriously and people who demand change en masse.”

Tyron Ricketts – Film producer, Actor, Surfer

“To reduce microfibre pollution, we must force large textile manufacturers to take responsibility and we must no longer stand by and watch as the responsibility lies solely with consumers.”

TEIL 2 – OVERCONSUMPTION

Richard Sammel – Actor

“Consume less, and differently.”

Anne Ratte-Polle – Actress

“Shop mindfully and buy less, because less is more.”

Buki Akomolafe – Fashion Designer

“Regulations.”

David Bredin – Actor

“Reflect your consumption.”

TEIL 3 – Mikrofasern

Marie Nasemann – Actress, feminist & fashion activist

“It requires education, awareness and appropriate legislation.”

Sophia Hoffmann – Cook & Zero Waste Aktivistin

“I believe it is extremely important that there is both education on the subject and legal regulation.”

Sema Gedik – Founder ‘Auf Augenhöhe’

“We need fewer synthetic textiles, special filters and more conscious washing.”

Maja Göpel – transformation researcher

“We will only get to grips with the problem of microfibres if we understand that we do not live separately from nature, but are part of it, and that everything we put out there comes back to us.”

Egon Jochim – Son of Carina Bischof

Carina Bischof – Founder Fashion Revolution Germany

“Only with clear regulations for the textile industry and responsible clothing consumption can we stop microfibre pollution.”

Miranda Wilson – Badminton National Team, BadmintONEarth

“It’s not only up to consumers, change has to happen within the companies and their production.”

Julia Ochs – Photographer, founder Ocean Gallery & Activist

“To reduce microfibre pollution, we need stricter regulation of industry and must end our overconsumption.”

TEIL 4 – Mode Kolonialismus

In August 2025, we travelled to Ghana for a series of interviews. We wanted to draw attention to the catastrophic effects of the ‘fashion trade’ between industrialised countries and countries of the so-called ‘Global South’, and to give a voice to the local people in Accra who are directly affected by it.

TEIL 5 – Healing

What has developed from the so-called “developed” world? And who should learn from whom? Our planet can heal. Indigenous stories tell us how.

The ocean – like all other elements of nature – is considered a sacred place where everything begins. Our planet needs this mind shift.

“The Ocean And The Turtle” – an ocean story from indigenous coastal communities such as the Ga, Akan and Dangbe in Ghana – sends a clear message:

It is time to honour the ocean as the source of all life – the foundation that keeps humans alive.

Indigenous wisdom is the future.