A collection of garments made from waste fabrics salvaged from NY & Paris fashion districts.
As part of Midwest Fashion Weeks
“Beauty as Freedom”
A runway presentation of women’s and mens ready to wear garments.
Lockwood creates garments from fabrics fashion designers throw away.
She literally gathers fabrics that fashion designers dispose of at factories and designers studios.
The fashion industry disposes of massive quantities fabric which creates greenhouse gasses that are adding to global warming.
Melissa analyzes how these fabrics can be used to make clothing, rugs and other things instead of being placed in the landfills.
She works to inspire mass producing designers to consider they’re waste fabric as a resource. She proposes they use the remnant waste area as a design space during garment design.
The collection “Touched with Water” is an example of garments she discovered within the fabrics shapes other designers threw away.
It is comprised of dresses made from found shape fabric pieces and Men’s wear made from discarded sample header pieces, using a zero Waste Jacket pattern.
Her mission is to get the fashion industry to change its practices of waste and pollution, to a regenerative system, to think a little harder about creative uses for the fabrics.
