The most precious thing on earth is, well, earth and while Haute Couture Fashion Week might seem like the last place you’d expect to see upcycling, the realities of climate change have made the ultimate luxury environmental awareness.
That seemed to be a message of the Fall 2021 haute couture collections, which featured lots of vintage denim and other fabric reuse which are all about old jeans and ocean plastic.
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Upcycling, the process of using existing materials for a new purpose, has been percolating through pandemic ready to wear collections as Covid-19 shutdowns forced designers to use deadstock materials they had on hand.
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