Zero-Waste Clothing Design One of the Sustainable Practice Applications in the Light of Fully-Fashion Technique

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Home Economics Department, Faculty of Qualitative Education, Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt

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Sustainability constitutes an appropriate framework to reach a higher level of human life through economic development and environmental preservation without depleting natural resources. Today, sustainability is one of the most important considerations that are taken into account in developed countries. The current study aimed to re-design, shape and build traditional clothing in new ways to conserve resources and materials. Raw materials, to obtain fashion designs that combine the elements of sustainability, through the preparation a “Eco-design” that combines human needs, culture and the environment according to the " Fully Fashion " technology. The raw materials were employed to reach zero waste by employing the remaining spaces, either by modifying the model or in making an additional clothing accessory for the model.  In the end, we get flat pieces superimposed next to each other as puzzle pieces so that the space is completed without any loss of fabric. High specialists' estimates of the proposed designs for zero-waste products in light of the " Fully Fashion " technology.

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