The Future of Fashion – Something out of nothing?

‘Leftovers ’ is a research project focusing on some unexpected approaches to design methodologies. Routine approaches to design are challenged when ingredients from the process are unavailable or removed. To date discarded manufacturing materials have been transformed into fashion ideas- utilising a range of processes, including draping, jigsawing, laminating, bonding and juxtaposition. The concept of ‘leftovers ’ is dependent on the materials that are left over from production and manufacturing. This has focused on waste from clothing and accessories but could be ‘anything’. Dustbin waste is repurposed to become valuable and desirable. Nothing becomes something where leftover shapes and pieces that are left over, actually shape new designs. With extensive focus on ethics, climate change and environmental impact the fashion and textiles industry has particularly come under scrutiny in relation to these issues. Specifically concepts of waste, mass consumptio