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Sustainability is not just about reduce, reuse and recycle. Most people seem to think that by upcycling or recycling waste, that we are reducing the impact on the environment. While this is true, it is also important to think about the inhabitants of the planet. What about those crafts people who make things by hand…
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG7205477/Orsola-de-Castro-The-ethical-fashion-designer.html Orsola de Castro: The ethical fashion designer – Telegraph fashion.telegraph.co.uk Orsola de Castro, 43, is the founder of From Somewhere, which makes clothes out of recycled offcuts of luxury materials. With her partner, Filippo Ricci, she curates Estethica, an initiative in association with the British Fashion Orsola de Castro: The ethical fashion designer Orsola…
I have been doing some soul searching about why I seem to be so interested in quantum physics and the most ostensible reason that I can deduce is that it relates to something my Dad used to tell me when I was growing up. We used to discuss what I had read about Lobsang…
Hello There, I do apologise for not updating my blog all this time. I have been very busy burning candles at both ends. My dilemma has been about seaching for a way to make some of my up-cycled creations into a finished product that will be ready for marketing. It has been an uphill task…
I studied textile design at the University of East London, graduated in June, 2011 with BA (HONS). I started an ambitious project during my BA where I was looking into the creation of new textile materials and creating decorative functional items from reclaimed materials. I had developed some sustainable product ideas and was quite fascinated…
On the 7th of December 2011, I organised a workshop on sustainability of which the aim was to create an awareness amongst members of the public about different things that can be done with some of the waste that we tend to discard adding to the vast amounts of articles that end up in landfill….
