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Educationlink<br />
DECEMBER 1, <strong>2016</strong><br />
Affordable Ethnic clothing<br />
getting stitched<br />
Olivia Chitty<br />
Young fashion designer<br />
Olivia Chitty has developed<br />
a garment design<br />
system that could<br />
offer people affordable ethical<br />
clothing options by creating<br />
new looks from existing<br />
clothes.<br />
She developed her Design<br />
for Disassembly system for<br />
her fourth-year project for<br />
Massey University’s Bachelor<br />
of Design (fashion) degree.<br />
The following is her account:<br />
It is a design process that provides<br />
flexibility while deconstructing,<br />
up-cycling, or making<br />
alterations to garments.<br />
Major pollutant<br />
The fashion industry is the<br />
second most polluting industry<br />
worldwide, billions of tonnes<br />
of textile waste are sent to the<br />
landfill each year but almost<br />
100% of this could have been reused<br />
or recycled.<br />
However, most garments<br />
are not designed to be remade.<br />
The way they are constructed<br />
makes it very difficult and time<br />
consuming to take apart and<br />
recycle.<br />
My business concept involves<br />
designing a primary garment<br />
in such a way that it can be returned<br />
to the manufacturer and<br />
professionally recreated into another<br />
look.<br />
It can then be sold back to the<br />
original customer, or as a secondary<br />
piece to another buyer.<br />
I would like the garments to be<br />
made from quality sustainable<br />
fabrics such as hemp, wool, silk<br />
and lotus flower fabric.<br />
I had to make sure my original<br />
garments had bigger surface<br />
areas with less panel lines<br />
and seams. All my design details<br />
and fastenings are carefully applied<br />
to the garment so that they<br />
can easily be separated from the<br />
fabric during deconstruction.<br />
Chain Stitch Machine<br />
I diverted from the traditional<br />
methods of clothing construction<br />
and developed my own<br />
system using the chain stitch<br />
machine, which creates a durable<br />
stitch, yet can be unravelled<br />
Olivia Chitty (extreme right) with (from left) Hannah Mora, Sophia Balfoort, Jaguar Ewart and Konan Snow<br />
Picture Courtesy: Massey News<br />
very easily, saving a lot of deconstruction<br />
time.<br />
I surveyed people about their<br />
views on ethical fashion before<br />
developing my design concept.<br />
Most people said that they<br />
would like to know where their<br />
clothes come from and would<br />
like them to come via ethical<br />
production.<br />
My idea is that the swing tags<br />
on the garments would say<br />
whether the clothes are primary<br />
or secondary pieces and people<br />
could track the history of the<br />
garment.<br />
I hope this allows like-minded<br />
people to connect and create<br />
a bit of an online community,<br />
while adding value to the garments<br />
and experience.<br />
This is a concept for people<br />
who care about the environment<br />
and the impacts of fast<br />
fashion. I would like to buy ethical<br />
clothing but cannot afford it.<br />
By maximising material use<br />
and reducing waste, Design for<br />
Disassembly should make it<br />
more affordable and accessible<br />
for people who want to shop<br />
ethically.<br />
Editor’s Note: Olivia Chitty<br />
graduated recently from<br />
Massey University College of<br />
Creative Arts. She plans to<br />
return to Auckland to look for<br />
work. She would like to develop<br />
her idea into a sustainable<br />
business aimed at reducing<br />
the amount of fast fashion<br />
thrown away for the next new<br />
look<br />
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