COLLECTION I
“DAGUSTINA” a Brand created by Latin American Fashion Designer Agustina Dominguez, questions how we might reduce production waste in the fashion industry by using Technology and Zero-Waste pattern-making without compromising aesthetics to reconsider waste in the industry. Through communication and transparency, my brand proposes to give agency back to the designer, combining a more sustainable production (achieved by Zero-waste patternmaking), aesthetics, and size inclusivity. Dagustina believes design is where waste ends and inclusivity begins.
Thesis Collection
Parsons School of Design
Year
14/04/2024
Using Technology to Design the End of Waste
The Fashion Industry produces aproximately 92 Million tons of textile waste a year, 12.36 million tons are scraps of fabric on the floor.
Production waste is generally invisible in industrial process, and by extension the average consumer has no idea the amount of waste created in the fashion system. Global Fiber Production was of 103 million tons in 2017. It is common to assume that 30% of that fiber will become waste in the spinning, weaving and cutting processes to make garments. 15% of the efforts put on our textiles are loss. Including fiber, water, soil, material energy, time and resources.
The ugly truth is that for business it’s cheaper to write off the waste rather than creating new systems that will reduce or eliminate it. The industry has normalized waste to the point that it is invisible. I believe it’s important to acknowledge the true cost of textiles and the enviromental and ethical responsibility of being a fashion designer.
