Finding my voice as a sustainable designer
A final garments photoshoot? Tick fo' dat. ✔ (pics by @isobelcolnaghiphotos for @thatgexboy's mag!) As a second-year fashion design student, I constantly strive to incorporate sustainability in my work. The fashion world hasn’t always been one that's excited me, it is my desire to make a change for the better, through more ethical and eco design approaches to this oh-so-polluting industry. As there are so many ways in which one can do this, I have gotten to know myself as a designer in exploring this within my uni briefs. Whether that be through the durability of the end piece or up-cycling from waste, to natural dyeing and zero waste pattern cutting. I like to be creative with my silhouettes, exploring garments that either flatter or stand away from the body. The creative process for my white shirt was using an up cycled white sheet and laser cutting the wooden buttons. It was inspired by kintsugi, the Japanese art form of us