3. Circular Open Source Fashion¶
Research & Ideation¶
"I am excited about this week's module. When I think of circular fashion, it reminds me of sustainable fashion methods and accelerate innovation by sharing modular systems, zero-waste patterns, upcycling recipes, repair systems". Zero-waste patterns were very difficult for me after understanding that zero pattern waste means designing a garment so that when you cut out all the pattern pieces from the fabric, no fabric is left unused. This will greatly impact sustainability where the fashion industry generates between 15-20% from fabic waste from cutting.
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References & Inspiration¶
"I was facinated with designers that include shapes in their designs such as circles, squares/rectangle, and/or triangles. Yuima Nakazato is one of a few Japanese fashion designers that I was interested in because of his reach with zero waste and upcycling and shapes in his designs. Through his designs, he treats couture as a research lab: high-end and artisanal work become the testing ground for sustainable techniques and new materials. He use of upcycled / waste textiles, biotech materials, and hybrid methods shows that even couture can engage with circularity. I also likes how he merges fashion, engineering, and material science together."
- Two images side-by-side
- Both images from Design Art Moda Magazine
Tools¶
Step 1. Process and workflow¶
My hand drawn sketches are ... I wanted to utlize different shapes for this project. The shapes that were chosen was a circle, rectangle, and triangle. The triangle is the male and the circle is the female part of the structure. Another source of inspiration was from the picture below from Pinterest
Step 2. Using 2D system with Adobe Illustrator¶
This module 1 was obtained by..
I am somewhat familiar with Adobe Illustrator. I created the image in illustrator and connect each piece. In order to create a triangle, I had to make a star and hit backspace."
Step 3. Testing different fabrics for laser cutting¶
The laser cut nesting 2 was created using..
I use the x Tool M1 laser cutter for this project. I used five different fabrics to test the laser cutting. Green fabric (100% cotton) Pink fabric (felt PET) Gray fabric (thicker felt PET) Blue (100% linen) Pattern (denim twill 100% cotton)
I use up to 90% power and 25% speed and both the cotton and linen cut by burning the mat some using felt as the material. After several testing series, I was able to cut both the regular and heavier felt using PU leather as the material at 90% power and 15% speed while burning the mat as well:)
Step 3: Putting it together¶
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The laser cut nesting 2 was created using svgnest..
footnote fabrication files
Fabrication files are a necessary element for evaluation. You can add the fabrication files at the bottom of the page and simply link them as a footnote. This was your work stays organised and files will be all together at the bottom of the page. Footnotes are created using [ ^ 1 ] (without spaces, and referenced as you see at the last chapter of this page) You can reference the fabrication files to multiple places on your page as you see for footnote nr. 2 also present in the Gallery.
Assembly videos¶
From Youtube¶
In addition, the belt was laser cut with leather fabric.
