Reet A•••

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I'am Reet A•••, a fashion, theatre and film designer, Ph.D The textile and fashion industries consume huge quantities of resources and produce a large amount of waste. On average 18% of textile materials are wasted even before reaching the customers. This pre-consumer waste and wasted resources that it took to produce the material, are huge part of the enormous environmental burden that fashion industry creates globally and every single day. With above mentioned in mind, me and my research team have developed an innovative and working upcycling design method which integrates industrial amounts of leftover materials back into design and production cycle on-site, without any need for down-cycling practices (like recycling, re-fibering etc). Such method enables us to reduce the wasted virgin textiles up to 52%, saving up to 88% of energy and 75% of water with each piece of garment.