TY - GEN
T1 - IS THERE A ZERO WASTE IN A FASHION DESIGN?
AU - Binde, Māra
AU - Freimane, Aija
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Each year around 400 billion m2 of textiles are produced in the world in the linear economy. About 15% of the fabric used to make clothes end up in the waste during the cutting process. Although there are a number of recycling initiatives in the fashion industry towards circular economy, the application of zero-waste principles in fashion design practice and production are only solitary cases. Traditional fashion education methods emphasise the primary satisfaction of the designer's ambitions and there is a myth in fashion design that it is not possible to produce aesthetic clothing of any silhouette, assortment, and size with zero-waste principles. The work process is considered time consuming and too complicated. This paper analyses zero-waste fashion design learning-teaching square assignment method, its challenges and opportunities to help students to practice the form and style, technological and prototyping towards sustainability in fashion design. The analysis shows the purposefulness of the constraints in the experimental fashion design process and reveals the importance of missing skills, as well as prejudices of using zero-waste principles versus traditional fashion design technologies. Developed zero-waste fashion design learning-teaching methods are an alternative educational paradigm that provides students with knowledge and skills towards real sustainable revolution in fashion design and production.
AB - Each year around 400 billion m2 of textiles are produced in the world in the linear economy. About 15% of the fabric used to make clothes end up in the waste during the cutting process. Although there are a number of recycling initiatives in the fashion industry towards circular economy, the application of zero-waste principles in fashion design practice and production are only solitary cases. Traditional fashion education methods emphasise the primary satisfaction of the designer's ambitions and there is a myth in fashion design that it is not possible to produce aesthetic clothing of any silhouette, assortment, and size with zero-waste principles. The work process is considered time consuming and too complicated. This paper analyses zero-waste fashion design learning-teaching square assignment method, its challenges and opportunities to help students to practice the form and style, technological and prototyping towards sustainability in fashion design. The analysis shows the purposefulness of the constraints in the experimental fashion design process and reveals the importance of missing skills, as well as prejudices of using zero-waste principles versus traditional fashion design technologies. Developed zero-waste fashion design learning-teaching methods are an alternative educational paradigm that provides students with knowledge and skills towards real sustainable revolution in fashion design and production.
KW - sustainability fashion
KW - Zero-waste fashion design
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85142839157
T3 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022
BT - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education
A2 - Bohemia, Erik
A2 - Buck, Lyndon
A2 - Grierson, Hilary
PB - The Design Society
T2 - 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022
Y2 - 8 September 2022 through 9 September 2022
ER -