After researching into Margiela I went onto looking into zero waste fashion, which I knew absolutely nothing about until now. You always hear about sustainable fashion but I have never really heard zero waste fashion at all. Zero waste fashion refers to clothing that produces little or zero waste during production. It is considered part of the broad spectrum which is sustainable fashion movement. It is decided into two approaches, per-consumer which is where they eliminate waste during manufacture and post-consumer which generates post consumer clothing or second hand clothing if you will eliminating waste at what would be the end of the product use life of a garment. Zero waste is not a modern concept it has been used for years in garments like the kimono, sari, chiton and many other costumes.
The general process of manufacturing a garment produces 15% wastage, which eventually will all add up when building a collection and the wastage will be vast!
Madeleine Vionnete uses a design approach that aligns itself with zero waste fashion and many of her garments generate minimal waste. Alison Gwilt and Timo Rissanen's book shaping sustainable fashion includes a number of references to zero waste fashion.
Exhibitions showing zero waste fashion include:
DPOL by Siddhartha Upadhyaya exhibited at London science museum, antenna exhibition for its breakthrough in sustainable and zero waste fashion.
Bad Dogs by Timo Rissanen's.
ZERO Waste: fashion re-patterned In 2011, curated by Arti Sandu from Columbia college, Chicago.
In my first year of my course we were encouraged to incorporate sustainable fashion as much as possible the way I took this into my own practice was by filling my lay out plans to maximum capacity with all and as many more pattern pieces as I could, obviously with this project we are using old dresses and up-cycling them and using the fabric to create a re vamped party dress, so we are giving something old a new lease of life.
Claire Martin . (2007). Zero waste fashion . Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Waste_Fashion. Last accessed 2012.
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