The growing demand for fast fashion and chea pgarments has led to a system of overproduction and overconsumption leaving tons of discarded textiles in landfills every year. This project investigates how textile waste can be up-cycled and redesigned into fashionable garments of higher value by merging textiles and applying surface design techniques. In this project two techniques were explored in relation to up-cycling, slashing and printing. Printing as a method to give new print designs and slashing as a tool to merge textiles together and create patterns and textures aiming to find new surface expressions and challenge the current up-cycling aesthetic.

The outcome of the collection reveals various ways one can work with slashing and printing as a method to transform and elevate different types of garments and materials found within discarded textiles. It shows an example of how material exploration can guide the way to create garments and that by mixing textile design and fashion design one can explore different properties simultaneously.