Everything from subway seating and broken umbrellas to potato chips packets, socks and food waste are now materials of choice for a host of young talents who are trying to cut down on waste while raising public awareness about the issue of overproduction
(File) Designers wear their couture creations made exclusively from discarded rubbish to launch Junk Kouture in the in London, England. Image: Antony Jones/Getty Images for Junk Kouture
How can we reduce the impact of waste on the planet? Repulsive, dirty, even disgusting, waste never had good press, until the climate crisis forced fashion designers to get creative and reinvent. As a result, everything from subway seating and broken umbrellas to potato chips packets, socks and food waste are now materials of choice for a host of young talents who are trying to cut down on waste while raising public awareness about the issue of overproduction.