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Level: 51
Header Text: Material re-use & recycling
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Body Text: <p>A key element for enabling disassembly for material re-use and recycling is the consideration and development of impermanent joining methods and connections.</p> <p>Timberland's Earthkeepers 2.0 collection was designed with disassembly in mind; 70 to 90 per cent of the materials utilised in the shoe can be re-used or recycled. </p>
Level: 51
Header Text: Material re-use & recycling
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Body Text: <p>A key element for enabling disassembly for material re-use and recycling is the consideration and development of impermanent joining methods and connections.</p> <p>Timberland's Earthkeepers 2.0 collection was designed with disassembly in mind; 70 to 90 per cent of the materials utilised in the shoe can be re-used or recycled. </p>
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Level: 52
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>While design for disassembly is an emerging approach in the clothing sector, it is already providing demonstrable benefits elsewhere. Printing and photocopying services company Ricoh adopted their Comet Circle™ strategy in 1994, which involves product parts being designed and manufactured in a way that they can be recycled or reused [1].</p> <p>Ricoh derives a range of benefits, include enhancing its product portfolio with lower-cost models and rendering its offerings more competitive by mixing 'new' and recirculation products.</p> <p>Ricoh now aims to reduce the input of new resources by 25% by 2020 and 87.5% by 2050, compared to 2007. In general, such improved resource efficiency will reduce carbon, water and waste impacts.</p>
Level: 52
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>While design for disassembly is an emerging approach in the clothing sector, it is already providing demonstrable benefits elsewhere. Printing and photocopying services company Ricoh adopted their Comet Circle™ strategy in 1994, which involves product parts being designed and manufactured in a way that they can be recycled or reused [1].</p> <p>Ricoh derives a range of benefits, include enhancing its product portfolio with lower-cost models and rendering its offerings more competitive by mixing 'new' and recirculation products.</p> <p>Ricoh now aims to reduce the input of new resources by 25% by 2020 and 87.5% by 2050, compared to 2007. In general, such improved resource efficiency will reduce carbon, water and waste impacts.</p>
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53
Level: 53
Header Text: Modular construction
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Body Text: <p>Modular design concepts allow the wearer to customise their outfit according to mood, occasion, lifestyle, season and taste.</p> <p>BLESSUS claim that one of their modular outfits can make an entire wardrobe, thanks to the use of strategically integrated and concealed zips.</p>
Level: 53
Header Text: Modular construction
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Body Text: <p>Modular design concepts allow the wearer to customise their outfit according to mood, occasion, lifestyle, season and taste.</p> <p>BLESSUS claim that one of their modular outfits can make an entire wardrobe, thanks to the use of strategically integrated and concealed zips.</p>
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54
Level: 54
Header Text: Product metamorphosis
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Body Text: <p>Product adaptability concepts provide ultimate versatility; items such as clothing can morph into other items such as accessories, providing an efficient dual use for one product.</p> <p><a href="http://www.jnc-net.de/en/blog/38-brand-news/1165-victorinox-x-christopher-raeburn-protect-.html" target="_blank">Christopher Raeburn's</a> capsule collection 'Protect' features an insulated parka, which can be folded from an oversized coat into a backpack in six simple steps.</p>
Level: 54
Header Text: Product metamorphosis
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Body Text: <p>Product adaptability concepts provide ultimate versatility; items such as clothing can morph into other items such as accessories, providing an efficient dual use for one product.</p> <p><a href="http://www.jnc-net.de/en/blog/38-brand-news/1165-victorinox-x-christopher-raeburn-protect-.html" target="_blank">Christopher Raeburn's</a> capsule collection 'Protect' features an insulated parka, which can be folded from an oversized coat into a backpack in six simple steps.</p>
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Level: 55
Header Text: Updateable
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Body Text: <p>Garments capable of updating in colour, style or fit could reduce the constant need for new clothing in the future. </p> <p>The <a href="http://yulimuses.blogspot.com/2012/06/shed-me-clothes-alternative-to-fast.html">Shed Me Clothes</a> concept by Katie Ledger was inspired by the study of skin shedding seen in snakes, in order to eliminate laundering and facilitate colour and style change. </p>
Level: 55
Header Text: Updateable
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Body Text: <p>Garments capable of updating in colour, style or fit could reduce the constant need for new clothing in the future. </p> <p>The <a href="http://yulimuses.blogspot.com/2012/06/shed-me-clothes-alternative-to-fast.html">Shed Me Clothes</a> concept by Katie Ledger was inspired by the study of skin shedding seen in snakes, in order to eliminate laundering and facilitate colour and style change. </p>
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Level: 56
Header Text: Multifunctional
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Body Text: <p>Multi-functional concepts consider the use of colour, material and construction in order to create ultimate product versatility and adaptability. </p> <p><a href="http://usgreentechnology.com/us-green-stories/eco-fashion-trend-of-the-week-loomstates-321-line/" target="_blank">Loomstate's 321</a> collection offers pieces with reversible and rotatable panels and layers in order to create a highly multi-functional garment with many different looks.</p>
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Header Text: Multifunctional
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Body Text: <p>Multi-functional concepts consider the use of colour, material and construction in order to create ultimate product versatility and adaptability. </p> <p><a href="http://usgreentechnology.com/us-green-stories/eco-fashion-trend-of-the-week-loomstates-321-line/" target="_blank">Loomstate's 321</a> collection offers pieces with reversible and rotatable panels and layers in order to create a highly multi-functional garment with many different looks.</p>
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57
Level: 57
Header Text: Infrequent laundry
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Body Text: <p>Approximately one quarter of the carbon footprint of clothing happens in the hands of consumers, primarily as a result of cleaning and laundry [1]. </p> <p>Design concepts need to begin to reflect this by exploring opportunities to reduce laundry impact through strategic design, such as the consideration of specific coatings and finishes and suitable materials.</p> <p>London College of Fashion PhD student Emma Dulcie Rigby's 'Energy Water Fashion', aims to encourage infrequent laundry through the use of materials such as waxed organic cotton and wool. </p>
Level: 57
Header Text: Infrequent laundry
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Body Text: <p>Approximately one quarter of the carbon footprint of clothing happens in the hands of consumers, primarily as a result of cleaning and laundry [1]. </p> <p>Design concepts need to begin to reflect this by exploring opportunities to reduce laundry impact through strategic design, such as the consideration of specific coatings and finishes and suitable materials.</p> <p>London College of Fashion PhD student Emma Dulcie Rigby's 'Energy Water Fashion', aims to encourage infrequent laundry through the use of materials such as waxed organic cotton and wool. </p>
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Level: 58
Header Text: Consumer attitudes
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Body Text: <p>Consumer laundry habits can be influenced through design concepts in order to reduce negative impacts in the use phase.</p> <p>The pre-stained dress by Lauren Montgomery Devenney, developed for the Centre for Sustainable Fashion's Fashioning the Future Summit, explores 'a new perspective on the cultural faux pas of dirty clothing' and her concept dress is designed to resist smell through carefully chosen silhouette and cut and encourages stains as part of a pre-stained decorative pattern.</p>
Level: 58
Header Text: Consumer attitudes
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Body Text: <p>Consumer laundry habits can be influenced through design concepts in order to reduce negative impacts in the use phase.</p> <p>The pre-stained dress by Lauren Montgomery Devenney, developed for the Centre for Sustainable Fashion's Fashioning the Future Summit, explores 'a new perspective on the cultural faux pas of dirty clothing' and her concept dress is designed to resist smell through carefully chosen silhouette and cut and encourages stains as part of a pre-stained decorative pattern.</p>
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Level: 59
Header Text: Scent design
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Body Text: <p>Educating the consumer on the negative impacts of clothes washing could be addressed through the exploration of scent design.</p> <p>Fresh scents can give worn garments a light freshening-up in between washes through the use of sprays or coatings. </p> <p><a href="https://sidewalkhustle.com/naked-famous-scratch-n-sniff-mint-jeans/" target="_blank">Naked & Famous Denim</a> have created scratch and sniff jeans through the use of a coating that contains mini microcapsules. </p>
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Header Text: Scent design
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Body Text: <p>Educating the consumer on the negative impacts of clothes washing could be addressed through the exploration of scent design.</p> <p>Fresh scents can give worn garments a light freshening-up in between washes through the use of sprays or coatings. </p> <p><a href="https://sidewalkhustle.com/naked-famous-scratch-n-sniff-mint-jeans/" target="_blank">Naked & Famous Denim</a> have created scratch and sniff jeans through the use of a coating that contains mini microcapsules. </p>
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Level: 60
Header Text: Re-fresh
Video Path: https://player.vimeo.com/video/50682677
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Body Text: <p>In addition to textile and clothing designers, product and industrial designers are also beginning to address laundry habits by developing concepts for clothing-related products.</p> <p>Combining clothes cleaning with storage, <a href="https://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/05/bye-bye-laundry-by-lisa-marie-bengtsson/">Lisa Bengtsson’s</a> ‘Bye Bye Laundry’ hangers harness activated charcoal, a highly porous material that absorbs odour. This idea responds to the fact that a worn item of clothing often does not need to be cleaned and often just needs to be freshened up.</p>
Level: 60
Header Text: Re-fresh
Video Path: https://player.vimeo.com/video/50682677
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Body Text: <p>In addition to textile and clothing designers, product and industrial designers are also beginning to address laundry habits by developing concepts for clothing-related products.</p> <p>Combining clothes cleaning with storage, <a href="https://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/05/bye-bye-laundry-by-lisa-marie-bengtsson/">Lisa Bengtsson’s</a> ‘Bye Bye Laundry’ hangers harness activated charcoal, a highly porous material that absorbs odour. This idea responds to the fact that a worn item of clothing often does not need to be cleaned and often just needs to be freshened up.</p>