Upcycling & Sustainable Fashion Class

Who Is This Class For:

• Designers and entrepreneurs who are either working part-time in their business, just starting out, or THINKING about starting an Upcycled business. You love what you do, but you’d like to make a real business out of your creative ideas. You may have a day-job, you may or may not have a background in design, but either way this is the building stage for you and you’d like to build your business quickly with the least amount of mistakes and money.

What is upcycle in fashion:

• Upcycling is the same process of reusing old materials, but it creates something more valuable or of a higher quality. 

Examples of upcycling :

• Include using materials from plastic bottles to make new shoes or reclaimed wood to make quality furniture,

• Turning a jumper that shrunk in the washing machine into a new handbag,

• Cutting and sewing T-shirts into new hats, scarves, ties or bags,

• Using old fabric and leather into mobile phone or tablet covers,

• Sewing lots of old ties together to make a mini-skirt and more 

Importance of upcycling:

 It decreases textile waste, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. Overall, the practice of upcycling clothes lowers the demand for new clothing production, which is extremely wasteful and destructive for the planet.