Abstract
Fashion sustainability became a global market demand that shouldn’t be ignored. As a topic, sustainability became a core course in most of fashion institutes, where upcoming fashion designers and specialists are interacting with issues of sustainability facing fashion from theoretical backgrounds. Still, practically, interacting with sustainability is left as individualized attempts to figure a way to act, design, produce fashion in a sustainable manner. This research presents a method to teach fashion students sustainable design practices through upcycling technique and inspired by “Yohji Yamamoto” deconstructive style of fashion. While the technique being sustainable, it was found to be a booster to the students’ creativity and understanding of constructive practices behind fashion design. As an experiment of this study, fashion students during a workshop were divided to groups and been introduced to Yamamoto’s design process and techniques, they then been asked to develop their own complete outfit using old pieces of clothes and produce a presentable final outfit, in which they have to experiment their concept, design and construction. Throughout the study, an extracted experimental qualitative result of the technique will be discussed and presented and the process will be analysed. This undergoing study presents a worthy attempt to interactively introduce sustainable design practices to fashion students, that may help them reach their individual sustainable design process. The results of the study is expected to help educational institutes into integrating fashion sustainability (design to production) as a full practical process within their curricula.
Presenters
Alshaimaa AlanadolySenior Professor, Fashion Design, Taylor's University, Selangor, Malaysia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design
KEYWORDS
Sustainability, Fashion Design, Design Process, Upcycling
