Repurposing scrap fabric & clothes

For 4 years now, I have not bought any new clothes; only buying second-hand or upcycling clothes I already have. As the fashion economy tries to move towards a more circular system, I endeavour to use my skills to reduce the volume of wasted clothes around me. I have altered clothes for many friends and family alongside my own refashioning projects to reduce material waste.

Project Outcomes:

Fledging alteration & customisation business
4-year personal ban on the purchase of new garments
Alteration or entire redesign of over 70 disused items of clothing
Short form media content

Denim

Denim is extremely mainstream, but it is extremely hard to breakdown and generally not recyclable. Making new clothes from old jeans became a great way for me to combat this.

Scrap Fabric

Utilising fabric offcuts from some show costumes I altered for my university dance team.

Disused Clothes

I have upcycled many pieces over the years. This particular one was my grandmother’s old dressing gown, and I took inspiration from trending dresses I was seeing on my social media feed to create something up to date.