Afterlives: Reframing Waste Through Couture
2026
Garment
Afterlives explores how a garment constructed from scrap and unconventional materials can function as a critique of the contemporary fashion system. The garment is made using materials from old runway shows, which would have ended up in a landfill, and experiments with melting plastic bottles to create floral ornaments. Couture techniques are used to construct the dress.
