In World 263 in 2050, over-consumption has reached a breaking point, with landfills overflowing and natural resources exhausted by the constant demand for fast fashion. Governments enforce a “Material Preservation Act” to limit the production of new textiles. Wool, with its durability and ability to be endlessly recycled, becomes the primary material for all clothing.
Fashion design students must design adaptable, modular garments made from wool that can be reconfigured and reused for decades. Their task is to create a sustainable, slow-fashion circular model that counters the environmental destruction caused by over-consumption.
Dünya 263‘de, 2050 yılında, aşırı tüketim bir kırılma noktasına ulaşmıştır; çöplükler taşmış ve hızlı modanın sürekli talebi nedeniyle doğal kaynaklar tükenmiştir. Hükümetler, yeni tekstil üretimini sınırlamak için “Malzeme Koruma Yasası”nı yürürlüğe koyar. Dayanıklılığı ve sonsuz şekilde geri dönüştürülebilirliği ile yün, tüm giysiler için birincil malzeme haline gelir.
Moda tasarımı öğrencileri, onlarca yıl boyunca yeniden yapılandırılabilir ve kullanılabilir, uyarlanabilir, modüler giysiler tasarlamak zorundadır. Görevleri, aşırı tüketimin neden olduğu çevresel yıkımı tersine çevirecek sürdürülebilir, yavaş moda döngüsel bir model oluşturmak.
The prototypes were realized within the scope of the 2024-25 Fall Semester MTT410 Sustainable Fashion course conducted by Dr. Sanem Odabaşı at Eskişehir Technical University Textile and Fashion Design Department. The Woolmark Company provided mentorship in the course content and provided training on wool material and sustainability, and in the final study, students designed a modular garment in which wool fiber was the main material.
This Exploration was contributed by Zeynep Ilhan, Sıla Çelikten, Sezin Tan, Halis Kayacık, Gülsüm Tunç, Eli̇f Ataş, Bahar Duygu, Ekin Çevik and Zeynep Yavuz (located in Turkey), developed from a World contributed by The Woolmark Company Marketing Team at HQ(located in Australia), using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the authors and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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