Creating solutions for fashion Industry factory waste fabrics
Dresses made with the fabric that is found between the standard pattern areas and is thrown away.
This show is an environmentalist and design scientist analysis and statement that the discatrded fabric can be designed with during the design process.
This show was in Williamsburg Fashion Weekend was an underground kind of anti fashion week, fashion weekend.
I made my performance “Show” look like a runway show because, the models were actually wearing fashion industry waste, “garbage” from fashion factories dumpsters.
This show demonstrates my technique for creating garments with the Block Pattern Waste Area between the garments design patterns.
These garments come from looking at the spaces between the pattern areas and looking at them in relation to how stacks of same shape pieces are created during mass production runs and how easy they are to use. These garments are made with shapes found in garment industry landfill waste.
Melissa particpated in Williamsburg fashion weekend multiple years 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 showing garments made with factory waste fabrics.