Reclaim recycle is all about using different idea's and concepts. To expand your idea's on different materials, skills, artists. The idea that you can make fashion out of anything you like.
Research:
Designers:
Nancy Judd:
Nancy Judd is a famous fashion designer, but uses recycled materials to create her garments rather than any materials. her work is amazing and has done a lot of commissions and exhibitions for different famous companies. She uses her work as a speech to the public she wants them to take one look at her work and to take it in that recycling is serious and for them to maybe help out because recycling can become as beautiful as the garments she creates.
she's done a number of commissions such as:
Delta airlines - This garment took 175 hours to create and was made from six leather seat covers which Delta airlines use upon their planes. Also the cape she used was made from old unwanted plane tickets.
Lincoln city - This took 165 hours to create and was made from 100 plastic bags. It is meant to be inspired by jellyfish.
Toyota - This had taken over 150 hours to make and was made from 10 pounds of wire from beneath the hood of the cars.
Coca - Cola - This garment took 135 hours to make and was made from 1,000 coke cans. They were then sewn onto the garment and has had over 12 million views.
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Gary Harvey:
Gary Harveys artwork is simply beautiful. Just by looking at his work you can tell a lot of time and initiative has been put into them. He has a broad memory of imagination and idea's he brings to these garments. He creates things that have never been seen before and makes them exciting!
These are some of this garments:
Cushion Covers - This garment is simply beautiful and one of my all time favorites in this collections. although it would have been easy to sew up and create, the design is different and unique and that is what I love about it.
Rugby Tops - This garment was made from a number of jersey tops. I find it really interesting as not only will it take the eyes of women, but it is something men can also enjoy. He's took a highly promotional sport and made it into something beautiful.
Trench Coat - This dress was made from tens of trench coats. I love the effect they have on this dress, sort of a 1920's look and it shows you can make a garment out of anything and yet it can still link towards a fashion era.
Levi Dress - This dress was made from hundreds of Levi jeans. It gives this kind of work wear look. Jeans used to be a work wear for men, and it's as if he's brought it right back into this era and made it a fashion trend.
Artists:
Ha Schult -
Ha Schult is most famous for his art work of 'trash men'. they have traveled the world, trying to give the people an idea that recycle is a serious business, and if we keep on littering and not attending with our rubbish the right way, we are 'trash people'. It's not only trash people he created. He created a hotel made completely out of trash. so that when people visit they know the idea's and concepts behind it. Lots of famous people have visited the hotel to promote the ideas of recycling.
Clare Graham - This man is an inspirational artist. He wants his work to be different. For people to walk by and say 'wow, look at that, how different'. I love artists who spend their time creating new and exciting things. Things people have never seen before. Almost making people feel excited and it changes everything within the art world. Without it we wouldn't have fashion. Art is fashions starting point and using recycled materials shows us as humans that nothing has to go to waste. I love Clare's work, simply because it's different and the way in which he has used it to create beautiful work.
This first picture is made totally out of soda cans! It's unique and yet very different and gives it a great effect instead of looking like ordinary trash.
This next picture is a table made out of tin cans. At first I thought it looked like coins, old copper coins, but still either way it's a great look!
He was raised in Toronto in Canada. Yet he still manages to perform entertainment as well as creating these wonderful pieces of art work. The thing about recycled projects is that everyone in the fashion or art industry is that it can lead to the same idea's. But pieces of art work like this shows it doesn't always have to follow the same procedures. It can be completely different to the usual idea's people come up with.
Companies which recycle their clothing:
H&M - In the fall of 2011, h&m became the largest buyers for organic cotton in the world. They launched there first ever organic collection in 2010 and called it the 'Garden Collection'. A year on they launched the 'Conscious Collection' which was also made from organic cottons. Recently this year produced yet another organic collection, but for the signature red carpet look. The idea yo could look like a celebrity and still be able to wear organic cotton.
M&S - m&s has been in partnership with Oxfam since January 2008. You take your unwanted clothes to an m&s store nearby and you will receive a £5 gift card if you spend £35 or more The companies together have raised more than £3 million pounds since.
Celebrities who wear Eco friendly clothing:
Natalie Portman - When it comes to Eco friendly fashion, Natalie Portman takes it very seriously. She believes that using animal fur, or using any animal substances to make a garment is wrong. Dior recently make her fashionable shoes without taking lives. It's great to see celebrities promoting things such as this.
Emma Watson - Emma Watson collaborated with Alberta Ferretti to create an Eco friendly clothing line called 'Pure Threads', which released a rich collection of knitwear with cotton shirts, jersey dresses and shorts. This is what Emma Watson had to say on this amazing new label:
According to Watson: “I wanted to help People Tree produce a younger range because I was excited by the idea of using fashion as a tool to help alleviate poverty.” Watson explained she enjoys having creative control over the fashion collection:
“I love having control! My job as an actress is to bring to life another person’s vision, but with clothes, I can express my own creativity, and I wanted to be able to buy fashion knowing that it’s not harming the person who made it or the environment. I’ve always been involved in art and I love fashion - it’s just something I really enjoy.”
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