Category: Unit 6 + 7

Unit 6 + 7

Upcycling

Upcycling is when you reuse discarded objects or materials to relate a product of higher quality or value than the original.

We should upcycle because it reduces the amount of waste that is dumped into landfill and conserves the resources meaning that we don’t have to get new resources.

Make do and mend is to manage with and repair the possessions that one already has rather than buying replacements.

Nicole McLaughlin is very big in the upcycling movement, she has her own website where she sells her own upcycled clothes.

Unit 6 + 7

Garment photos before unpicking them

Unfortunately we both completely forgot to take pictures of our garments before we started to unpick them, by the time we had realised we had already started sewing the different elements together. We also realised that we were meant to take photos of our dismantled garments. The closest thing that we have to this is a picture of me unpicking the seams of each item of clothing. In this image you can see a very messy pile of our different elements.

Unit 6 + 7

Styled Photoshoot

We have made a face mask and a bag for our model to wear. We also decided to add my shoes as they have the same distressed look to the outfit.

The outfit will be styled as if it was a casual outfit but for one of the photos I want to have the model with his hands in his secondary pockets to show that his arms can hang straight by his sides and not swing around instead of the weird angle that they normally bend at in the normal positioned pockets.

Unit 6 + 7

Inventory or items

  • Left sleeve of grey hoody
  • Right sleeve of grey hoody
  • Hood of grey hoody
  • Two sides of the zip from grey hoody
  • The zip from the grey hoody
  • Two halves of the front of the grey hoody
  • Two halves of the back of the grey hoody
  • Two cuffs from the sleeves of grey hoody
  • 2 Drawstrings from grey hoody
  • Collar of grey hoody
  • Navy Left sleeve of tee
  • Navy right sleeve of tee
  • 2 navy cuffs of tee
  • Two white halves of the front of the tee
  • Two white halves of the back of the tee
  • White Collar of tee
  • Waist band of grey jeans
  • 2 front pockets of grey jeans
  • 2 back pockets of grey jeans
  • 2 halves of the back of the grey jeans
  • 2 halves of the front of the grey jeans
  • A lot of leftover threads