Sustainable - Zero Waste Fashion

My diploma project provides research, experiments, and analysis of textile waste in the fashion industry. I research how we end up with so much waste and where it all came from. I present that it is possible to reduce waste in the fashion industry and to be sustainable and how to do so. My methods and theories during my thesis were Zero Waste pattern making and cutting and Conventional pattern making and cutting. These two methods had been compared to each other. During the design phase, I used Aesthetic Durability, Ted’s Ten, Time of Becoming, Being and Existing theories and Story-telling to prolong my garments lifetime, and with that act become more sustainable. After analyzing all of my experiments my Hypotheses had been proved. Zero Waste method Jigsaw Puzzle pattern making and cutting do reduce the textile waste in the fashion industry, while Conventional increases textile waste. An average 19,9% more textile is needed for the Conventional method to make a collection, then what is needed for the Zero Waste method. This means that we need to create more textiles to be able to produce with the Conventional method. During my experiments, I ended up with an average 0,5% textile waste from the Zero Waste method, while the Conventional method ended up with 12,7% textile waste. at means that we create more waste with the Conventional method during cutting. Circular Design and the recycling system I planed in my project also help to reduce textile waste.