It takes a huge shift in the way  we live our lives to be sustainable. I am hopeful about the small changes designers and makers can make to help the future of the planet.  in 2006 ted (textiles design environment) University of the arts London developed teds ten, these are 10 design approaches ; 1: Design to minimise waste 2: Design for recycling/up cycling 3: Design to reduce chemical impacts 4: design to reduce energy and water use 5: Design that explores clean and better technologies 6: Design that looks at models from nature and history 7: Design for ethical production 8: Design to replace the need to consume 9: Design to dematerialize and develop systems and services 10: design Activism. 

My practice takes on minimising waste and ethical production and also design activism. “Of the total textile fibre produced, up to 65% is lost, post-consumer, to landfill, incineration or composting, which represents between 400,000 and 700,000 tonnes per annum in the UK. Of this, at least 50% is said to be recyclable” (Allwood, 2006) and around 15% is lost pre consumer in the way we cut garments and produce them.

This area of fashion I have always found interesting, is sustainability in fashion an oxymoron? That I believe is a bigger question, can I create a series of garments using the same one piece pattern cutting technique, where the user would craft the piece themselves and have a choice in materials and process. The answer will be revealed in the pages of this website.