When it comes to the theme of a fashion professional's portfolio, "sustainability" must be one that will last forever.
But there's also a question: everyone is working on the theme of sustainability, how can your work be brilliant?
When most students face this topic, the first thing that comes to mind is to start with clothing fabrics and solve the problem of clothing recycling through sustainable textiles.
However, there is more than one entry point for "sustainable fashion"!
Today we are going to share a few different angles, hoping to bring you new inspiration.
#1
Zero-waste design
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Rather than recycling textiles through sustainable fabrics, the concept of zero-waste design starts at the source and reduces the output of industrial waste.
As ordinary consumers, we may not have an intuitive understanding of the waste that occurs in the manufacturing process of the fashion industry.
According to Forbes magazine, the fashion industry accounts for 4% of the world's waste every year, and most of the fashion industry's waste comes from excess scraps generated during the production of clothing.
So, instead of producing fashion waste and then trying to solve it, it's better to maximize the value of these excess leftovers from the source.
举个例子，欧洲知名的丝袜品牌——Swedish Stockings，就利用了尼龙废料来制作丝袜和连裤袜。
According to his family's research, stockings are a fast-moving consumable, and more than 8 billion pairs of stockings are abandoned every year after they are worn no more than twice.
This also makes the hosiery industry one of the highest rates of product waste and pollution in the world.
In order to reverse this phenomenon, all of Swedish Stockings' hosiery and pantyhose products are made from nylon recycled and extracted from fashion waste.
The precursors of these scraps are the materials used to make various garments, and they are more elastic and tough than the pure synthetic fibers used in traditional tights, and can also be worn more often.
Not only that, but Swedish Stockings is also looking at how to start with raw materials and launch fully biodegradable hosiery to bring sustainability one step further.
#2
Renovation of old clothes
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The life cycle of a garment is roughly four stages: production, retail, use, and recycling, and zero-waste design and the introduction of sustainable textiles belong to the thinking in the production stage and the recycling stage.
But in fact, in the stage between "use" and "recycling", we can also bring used clothes back to life, which is also one of the most important ideas in sustainable fashion: the transformation of old clothes.
The principle of old clothes transformation is to make old clothes into new items by cutting, splicing, and reconstructing, or from old adult clothes to new children's clothes.
In this process, we need to change the cut, silhouette, and structure of the old clothes, and change the old to the new, and the big to the small, although it is still a garment, it can present a completely different look.
However, there is one thing to say, the transformation of old clothes is also a handicraft work, and not everyone can succeed in the transformation, and the guidance of the methodology needs to be followed.
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#3
Wear more than one garment
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As mentioned earlier, a fashion item will go through the life cycle of "production, retail, use, and recycling".
The sustainability of the production and recycling stage can only be achieved by the efforts of enterprises, governments and organizations, but now, both at home and abroad, more and more practitioners of the concept of sustainability have begun to work hard in the "consumption and use" stage.
This has also brought fire to a large number of clothing bloggers on social platforms at home and abroad.
After realizing this demand, many independent fashion designers have also begun to think about how to make a piece of clothing look different, so as to reduce people's pursuit of new clothing.
Irina Dzhus, a designer from Ukraine, interprets traditional silhouettes and "must-have" clothing styles in the most unexpected way possible, offering a radical yet wearable twist on clothing.
#4
Emotional continuous design
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In addition to working the materials, production and collocation of fashion items, some designers have gone off the rails and introduced the emotional design that has become popular in recent years into the field of sustainable fashion.
In the early years, the Russian watch brand Kami introduced the concept of allowing users to replace different parts of the watch individually, so that the watch can not only keep up with the pace of the times, but also maintain the constancy of life, and enhance the connection between people and watches.
This approach of making the relationship between the product and the user more valuable over time is also applied to the design of other fashion products:
By reducing the style, enhancing the dirt resistance, washing resistance and comfort of the clothes, the clothes have an emotional demand for users, so that consumables become a part of consumers' lives, so that consumers are not easy to discard.
For example, the University of the Arts London-FTTI (Fashion, Textiles and Technology) Institute has collaborated with the well-known denim brand Blackhorse Lane Ateliers to jointly invent the UK's first denim washing machine.
It aims to allow consumers to professionally clean the jeans they have purchased at the lowest cost, so as to extend the life of the jeans and achieve sustainability. This is also one of the teaching objectives of FTTI.
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#5
reconstitution
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The concept of reconstruction is similar to the transformation of old clothes, but it goes further than the transformation of old clothes, so that the existing clothes are returned to the fabric stage.
Then, depending on the demand, new items are formed, not necessarily clothing, such as:
Bed sheets, pillows, canvas bags, storage bags, cushions, accessories, tissue boxes, etc.
Although the concept of reconstruction is similar to the transformation of old clothes, it does not have such a high threshold for the design and hands-on ability of the operator.
Because of this, reconstructing thinking is also a very familiar transformation wisdom for the older generation, and I believe that many of the students' grandparents have experienced the stage of "finding some unused cloth to change something".
So next time if you run out of inspiration, you can actually ask your grandparents to learn from them, which is likely to open a whole new door to your portfolio!
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