Projects
- REPURPOSE ExhibitionREPURPOSE is a collaborative project between fashion designer Amber Kim and visual artist Alex Lewis, curated by Sonja Teszler. The multidisciplinary exhibition explored the aesthetic and political qualities of objects throughout their various lifespans within discourses around sustainability. The prominent concerns weaving together the art works are site-specificity, the concept of waste and recycling and the ambivalent nature of owner- and authorship. The exhibition is strongly engaged with th
- Fashion Collection 'Repurpose' 2019‘Repurpose’ is a fashion design project with a reimagined mode of avant-garde, sustainable aesthetic that aims to extend the life of textile products using modern craftsmanship and technology. To encourage the circular economy that identifies and addresses issues around excessive consumption and waste problems, I have up-cycled festival wastes into a 5-looks high-end collection. At music festivals in UK, approximately 23,500 tonnes of waste is produced annually, including 250,000 abandoned ten