The idea of zero waste fashion is something that runs contrary to what the modern fashion industry has adopted as its production model. Not only is waste of materials not given much thought, much of the clothing production of the day is intentionally designed to be wastefully disposable so that the consumer will find more incentive to continue buying the industry's products. Through a class exploring the implications and methods of what zero waste fashion design does and could look like I had the chance to design a jacket that would, if mass manufactured, use all of the material within the required length of material.
The outer self fabric is linen dyed with walnut, and the inner lining is second hand polyester lining found at a Value Village.
The pattern was worked out using a half scale size replica of the fabric width, and then draping that on a half scale dress form.
Once the half scale jacket was established, the pattern was transferred to adobe illustrator and then scaled up so that it would fit the full size fabric width. Importing the illustrator file into Optitex allowed the pattern to be printed from a plotter in full size. It was then transferred to the fabric to create the final garment.
