RECYCABLE FASHION ARTIST`S

GARY HARVEY

Fashion designers, eco-conscious or not, are picking up on this eco-trend, taking a risk and taking vintage couture design to a higher level. Take Gary Harvey , for example, he can take a pair of jeans, newspaper, trench coats, army jackets or wedding dresses and turn them into stylish vintage ball-gowns that would make any eco-conscious princess hopeful for a greener and prettier place.

Gary Harvey is the former Creative Director of Levi Strauss and Dockers Europe designer for Levi's. He began designing his environmentally friendly dresses during a freelance fashion campaign. He needed something dramatic for a shoot so he took 42 pairs of Levi's 501's and made them into a dress. He has continued designing eco-fashion since.
His first collection of eco-designs was showcased in February of this year at London Fashion Week for Estethica. Estethica "is the hotspot for ethical fashion, where designers will show collections founded on ecological and organic principles." Take a look at his collection here.
He doesn't just recycle clothing to make his innovative designs either. This one dress to the left was made with cans, bottle tops and cardboard boxes.

What else will Gary Harvey come with in the future? Only Gary Harvey knows, but I would like to see him make a dress out of flip flops, curtains, mini blinds or even carpet.
 

Designs By Katell Gelebert : 

Fashions From Recycled Food Packaging

by Fashion Finds

 

Recycled fashions are all the rage, and sometimes designers get a little bit creative in selecting their mediums to create a unique clothing line. A hot new designer has a line that's creatively delicious!

 

Katell Gelebert is a French designer that created a full wardrobe using recycled food packaging. All items were created by hand to reduce the need for energy use, to further enhance the idea that these are eco-friendly fashions. Since these are one of a kind, of course, you won't see these items available for sale, but you never know, when you sport your Friskies coat out on the town, you never know if you might encounter someone else in a matching Kibbles & Bits design!

Margiela

The designer Margiela pursued his fascination with recycling by cutting and sewing developing classics such as trench coats, Prince of Wales recycled suits, patchworks of old jeans or simple dresses with displaced necklines. By 1998, tailoring for both sexes seemed more like modernist couture than urban oddities. Following a circuitous route, the designer had reached a 21st-century elegance.

In a showstudio.com interview Margiela answers some questions about his artisanal line:

You have been described as making clothes about clothes. Where do you think this fascination with clothing came from? 
It is from the structure of garments, and the challenge presented to us by the possibility of transforming or displacing the given rules of such a structure. This approach is especially true for our ‘artisanal production’ for which we rework existing clothes, fabrics and objects to create new garments. We would hope, however, that our work is more about clothes that are about wearing than just clothes about clothes!!

Please explain the concept underpinning your artisanal collection. What’s the difference between reworking an existing garment and pastiche? 
Well there you have stumped us! We see pastiche as having nothing at all to do with this process or its results! For us our ‘artisanal production’ (for men and womens garments they may be identified by the 0 (zero) encircled on their label), as we have said here, we rework existing garments, fabrics and objects to recreate new garments and accessories. We first adopted this approach for our inaugural collection for Spring/Summer 1989 and it has been an integral and important element of each and every one of our collections since. This quest to transform garments is born from a wish to treat the strictures of the structure of a particular garment as a design challenge. Often, more than one garment is combined to produce a new design so one consideration is that the initial garments are used as a raw material of which often only small elements of their original structure serve in shaping the new. Albeit that the initial impetus is one of design and not one of recycling, the result allows that these elements are given a second lease of life.

Ethical Designer To Watch: Aimee Kent

Aimee Kent is a Glasgow based fashion designer, specialising in ethical printed textiles and fashion. Inspired by her love of African fabrics, travel and foreign architecture, Aimee creates bold eye-catching prints with a tribal style twist, using a combination of traditional hand-painting and screen printing methods and digital textile design.

Since graduating in Textile Design from the Glasgow School of Art in 2010, Aimee has gone on to collaborate with some of the industry’s top fashion designers and brands, including; Marc Ross, EMI Music, Niki Taylor (of labels The Top Project and Olanic), Bonnie Bling, Johari and, more recently, Fantoosherie. Her collaborative designs with the award winning Henrietta Ludgate have earned her worldwide acclaim and have been featured at the London, Paris, Milan, Athens Fashion Weeks, as well as the Scottish Fashion Awards. Aimee’s designs have also appeared in several fashion magazines, online websites and blogs including Vogue.com and Marie Claire.

Aimee recently launched her own ethical printed textiles and fashion design studio in Glasgow, aiming to produce innovative products and prints using ethically sourced materials and processes. Being committed to green and ethical production lies at the very core of her business, recognising the demand for an environmentally friendly, sustainable production technique. As well as adhering to several ethical production principles, such as strict recycling of waste packaging and printing onto only organic or recycled fabrics, Aimee also offers workshops and training for local designers. This ensues the continuation of traditional craft skills as well as promoting sustainable production methods.

Her new boutique offers a range of trend-setting, sustainable fashion and lifestyle products, as well as one-off limited edition up-cycled fashion garments and decorative interiors items.
For more information, i checked out her website, and have added her on twitter and follow her on facebook.
Twitter: @AimeeEKent
Facebook: AimeeEKent 

Nieuwenhuyse Eco-Fashion Collection Mimics Snakeskin

This collection produces wood cutouts, which when reading i learnt are normally discarded to landfills as they can never be used again being a cutout but in the case of the Nieuwenhuyse Eco-fashion Collection. Fashion designer graduating student Stefanie Nieuwenhuyse was able to create a stunning fashion collection out of the plywood cutouts.

Nieuwenhuyse began collecting wood cutouts from her school’s workshop, then started gluing the wood cutouts together in fabric or cotton. From applying this technique she was able to create a wonderful collection of dresses and other designs, creating an image similar to snakesking. The Nieuwenhuyse Eco-Fashion Collection was presented at the London Fashion Week and was completed in collaboration with InCrops Enterprise Hub, a bio-waste company.

Martin Margiela

Martin Margiela (born April 9, 1957 in Genk, Belgium) is a Belgian fashion designer.

Martin Margiela creates oversized proportion garments emphasizing long arms, and with linings, seams and hems on the outside. The concept of deconstruction, also embraced by the aforementioned Rei Kawakubo, is important for the understanding of Martin Margiela's fashion statement. Margiela famously redesigns by hand objects such as old wigs, canvases and silk scarves into couture garments.

designer : Ellie Mücke

In striving to provide products of the highest quality from design through to manufacture, MüCKE ensures its products have minimal impact on the earth through sweatshop-free manufacturing and the re-use of old materials to make new items.  MüCKE reuses or recycles all material waste and minimises water usage where possible. As they grow, their goal is to continue making positive change by respecting the processes of production, the planet and its people. This means being responsible for their products throughout their entire life cycle, from conception to end-life and back again .

JOHN PETREY

dress made out of bottle caps by sculpter John Petrey

 

since 1981 he has been creating images that cause reaction. But as he`s grown as a human and an artist, his work has become more of an expression of himself conceived and executed by his soul.

 

VISIT PAGE : http://www.johnpetrey.com/gallery.html?folio=Portfolio&gallery=THE%20DRESS%20SERIES

 

Lira Leirner 

Lira Leirner has made this fantastic dress out of an old Royal Mail bag.

This dress is made from reclaimed stretch wool sweaters by Melissa Ferreira.

Comic Strip dress by Jane Lawrence.

made out of telephone books by Jolis Paons 

Adam Bouska

Photographer Adam Bouska was inspired by 'Green Week' in America and decided to create a fashion shoot that would fit in well with it. He styled his model in recycled materials and then photographed them in a way that looks like they could be from a fashion magazine. The dresses the models are in are made out of old newspapers swell as the background and all of the accessories. Bouska has made using recycling materials in dresses look very fashionable with the way he has made the images into a fashion editorial. The dramatic hair, makeup and poses makes the clothing very desirable, I was inspired by this as it makes recycled clothing look very fashionable.

Rory Lewis
Photographer Rory Lewis has used only recycled clothing in this photoshoot. The model is styled in second hand clothing that has been put together in a very fashionable way. By styling the model in this way ignores the fact that they are second hand and makes them seem very new and fashionable.

Experience Eco-fashion With The Of Winde Rienstra SS2012 Collection

This collection, has been featured at various eco-friendly fashion design shows at  iGreenSpot, and is known as the Winde Rienstra SS2012 Collection. The collection includes various fashionable clothing design and accessories. From dress to bracelets to shoes and more.

What the collection was made an eco-friendly fashion style, it became a sustainable method used within the design.Winde Rienstra’s SS2012 collection is made by hand. Presented at the July 13 Amsterdam Fashion Week, the SS2012 Collection makes Winde Rienstra the winner for the 2007 Dutch Design Idols. Winde Rienstra completed the Winde Rienstra SS2012 Collection following the principles of sustainability, which is now called as “green haute couture”.