Material Rehabilitation

Category: Apparel

WELCOME TO THE MATERIAL RECOVERY PROGRAMME. I'm Staging an Intervention. Material Rehabilitation challenges what we consider to be viable fashion materials. Current materials, both natural and synthetic, have been heavily documented regarding waterway pollution. These findings raise crucial questions about what properties we should be imbuing in our materials and advocates for a reassessment of longstanding material choices. There is a clear consensus that for the prioritisation of biodegradability, and this shift has sparked growing interest as bioplastics as a potential solution. This project consciously designs with bioplastics in aims to better improve the receptiveness of bioplastics beyond a novelty and continue to the conversation around consciously designing. Stop and think about how we want materials to behave. This work is underpinned by research into popular materials, denim and leather, investigating factors that have attributed to their popularity and apply transferrable principles such as : physical properties, processes and aesthetics, to inform bioplastic development. Familiarity is used as a design tool, to present the resulting bioplastics as something not entirely new. Here is your invitation to rethink and experience different material possibilities. Discover your favourite denim and leather jackets reinterpreted, including ' I can't believe its not leather jacket' and blends such as 'Deather'.

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