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Photos:
Jena Cumbo
Peter Tiso
"One Step Closer to Zero Waste" Designing into the waste fabric areas in fashion design. Fashion made Regenerative by the use of Garment Industry Waste Fabrics in the Design Process.
This show was in Williamsburg Fashion Weekend was an underground kind of anti fashion week, fashion weekend.
I made my performance “Show” look like a runway show because, the models were actually wearing fashion industry waste, “garbage” from fashion factories dumpsters.
This show demonstrates my technique for creating garments with the pattern area between the garments design patterns.
These garments come from looking at the spaces between the pattern areas and looking at them in relation to how stacks of same shape pieces are created during mass production runs and how easy they are to use. These garments are made with shapes found in garment industry landfill waste.
Melissa particpated in Williamsburg fashion weekend multiple years 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 showing garments made with factory waste fabrics.
I drew on those pants and tee shirt, upcycled the jacket above, all the other items are salvaged at the factories in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
Photos:
Jena Cumbo
Peter Tiso