Maria Fernanda Varney

Material - Led Designer My current work revolves around bioplastics and improving their materiality in my graduate project 'Material Rehabilitation' . To do this i have looked towards longstanding fashion materials such as leather and denim for transferrable aesthetics and processes. Previous project 'Wear Your Campus' encourages students to wear bioplastic accessories that are made in part from the campus itself. Natural dyes are created from harvestable plants grown on the Loughborough Campus from the University Fruit Routes scheme, but are harvested beyond seasonality as to not compete with food resources. I like to encourage people to feel my projects and experience bioplastics first hand to better social readiness for bioplastic within the UK clothing manufacture industry.