Graduating Fashion Show - Making garments out of old and used denims, turning them into chic and stylish clothing made for the college going, trendy student. In association with the British Council. Sustainable fashion.

1. •Fashion industry has a disastrous impact on the
environment.
•It is the second largest polluter in the world
•High consumption of resources like water, fuel and a
variety of chemicals.
INTRODUCTION

2. DENIM
•The name comes from serge de Nimes, or the serge of
Nimes, France. a serge fabric from
the town of Nîmes in France.
•Denim, a cotton woven fabric, may be the most
considered article of style today.
•It is a warp faced fabric, in which the weft passes under
two or more warp threads.
•Warp threads are dyed using indigo while the weft
thread is left white.

3. KALEIDOSCOPE
• It is the graduating fashion show for the
students of textile science, clothing and
fashion studies.
• Theme: Sustainable fashion

4. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF
DENIM

5. WATER CONSUMPTION
• A single pair of jeans needs 11,000 liters
of water to be produced.
• Used for the cultivation of denim fabric,
the main ingredient is cotton. It’s a fiber
that is heavily irrigated and fertilized,
and additionally, it uses large amounts
of water in its manufacturing and
packaging processes.

6. CHEMICAL CONSUMPTION
• 3kg of chemicals go into a single pair
of jeans.
• Lead, Cadmium and Copper have
leached into the soil, while Cadmium
levels are 128 times above the norm.
• Cotton, the fiber used to make denim,
is chemical thirsty too: it uses 25% of
the world’s pesticides and 11% of the
world’s insecticides.

7. POLLUTION
That trending distressed, denim-wash
look blue jeans have is the result of
several chemical-heavy washes. Fabric
printing and dyeing involves heavy
metals like cadmium, sulphur, lead
and mercury.
These chemicals from washing, along
with the blue dye which is used on a
monumental scale is let untreated into
the rivers nearby.

8. FOSSIL FUELS
• Fossil fuels are the biggest contributors to climate change,
and 90% of the fabrics of the clothes we wear today come
from oil.
• Producing these fibers requires a lot of energy, and the
manufacturing process in turn emits a lot of CO2 into the
atmosphere.
• Pollution from fossil fuels in general causes a lot of harm
to the environment and human health.

9. WASTE
• In the world on average 2,7 billion meters of denim are
produced each year, for a global US $57 billion market.
• All of this fabric is either made into clothes that fast
fashion has gradually led us to consider as disposable
goods, or is never even used: around 60 billion meters of
fabric a year are discarded right away.
• 85% of our clothes are disposed off into landfills.

10. SUSTAINABILITY

11. THE 5 R’S
Refuse
Reduce
ReuseRepurpose
Recycle

12. SUSTAINABLE DENIM BRANDS:
• LEVI’S
• EVERLANE
• EDUN
• CITIZENS OF HUMANITY
• AYR
• REFORMATION
• OUTLAND
• BOYISH

13. UPCYCLING
• Up-cycling is the reuse of discarded objects or
materials in such a way as to create a product of
a higher quality or value than the original.
• Redesigns the current, one-way linear industrial
system into a circular economy.
• Aims to keep materials and components at their
highest form of use and value at all time.
• Essential to minimize environmental impact and
decrease the Amount of waste that goes into
landfill.

14. BRANDS WORKING WITH UPCYCLING OF DENIMS:
• TRIARCHY ATELIER
-is a fashion line owned by two
brothers and a sister who created new
denim designs made from vintage
stock sourced from their base in Los
Angeles. Since the launch of the
brand, over 1,000,000 gallons of water
have been saved by their upcycled
denim productions.

15. • RE/DONE:
-are a vintage brand
which focuses mainly on
denim. They take the
vintage denim apart at
the seams and
repurpose them into
new jeans

16. SOURCE OF INSPIRATION
• The concept of Fast Fashion emerged in the last few years where trends are
designed and manufactured quickly and inexpensively to allow the
mainstream consumers to buy current clothing styles at a lower price. This
has led to an environmental crisis with respect to generation of fabric waste
that is perpetuated by an insatiable consumerist culture.
• co-fashion is a part of this growing design philosophy that can be seen as an
alternative to fast fashion. To achieve this sustainability, there is a need for
clothing options involving the process of recycling and upcycling that are
contrary to the "throw away" attitude encouraged by fast fashion. While
recycling is recovering a product that has been used and putting it through a
process to convert it into a new version of the same product; upcycling is
creative reuse of various by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted
products into something new, but not the same product again. It generally
involves value addition for the product.

17. • the concept of cradle to cradle through
upcycling makes sense with respect to denim's
future. Reconstructing old pair of jeans puts a
modern-twist on vintage denim, leading to a
complete "metamorphosis" or a change in the
form of the original garment while protecting
the environment.

18. MOOD BOARD

19. TECHNIQUES USED BY US FOR UPCYLING DENIM
WASTE

20. For upcycling we used various techniques to make the
garments more appealing. Following were the techniques
used by us :
1.PATCHWORK AND STONE WASHING
2.CUTWORK
3.BRAIDING
4. COLOR BLOCKING

21. 1. PATCHWORK AND STONEWASH

22. GARMENTS WHERE THE PATCHWORK TECHNIQUE
WAS USED

23. 2. CUTWORK

24. 3.BRAIDING

25. 4. COLOR BLOCKING

26. GARMENTS WHERE COLOR-BLOCKING WAS
USED

27. RESEARCH
MAKING OF MOOD
BOARD
MAKING DESIGNS
INFLUENCED BY
UPCYCLING
SOURCING OF
SECOND HAND
DENIMS
SORTING AND
CLEANING
COLOR SELECTION
DISASSEMBLING
AND PLACEMENT OF
PATTERNS
STITCHING
PLANNING OF
ACCESSORIES
PLAN OF WORK

28. EXECUTION OF THE PLAN

29. MAKING OF MOOD
BOARD

30. MAKING DESIGNS INFLUENCED BY UPCYCLING

31. SOURCING
(GIRISH PARK HATT)

32. SORTING OF
DENIMS

33. COLOR SELECTION

34. DE-ASSEMBLING OF USED DENIMS

35. PLACEMENT
OF
PATTERNS

36. STITCHING OF THE GARMENTS

37. COLOUR BLOCKED SHORTS WITH MACRAMÉ STRAPS

38. FLARED DRESS WITH BRAIDING

39. PATCHWORK CO-ORDS

40. PATCHWORK JACKET

41. CUTWORK JUMPSUIT

42. MESHED PRINCESS LINE TOP AND SKIRT

43. FRINGED JACKET

44. BLAZER DRESS

45. PENCIL SKIRT WITH BRALETTE

46. PENCIL SKIRT WITH BALLOON SLEEVES

47. SHOWSTOPPER