Author: Fred Forder

The idea behind the Collection was to design festival clothing using military design principles to produce a weather-resistant garment. The purpose of making a festival outfits out of the most polluting festival materials was to demonstrate how a negative situation may be improved. These jackets will be marketed as a festival waste collection, integrated in a rental and swap service. This will encourage an alternative single-use Weather resistant garment that are extremely thin and fragile creating a alternative product that will be strong and sturdy as well being made from abandoned tents. Other goods like bags and hats also made from waste will be sold and the proceeds from the sale of the accessories will be used to support the teams responsible for developing and producing them and a percentage sent to a homeless charity.

 

Overall, the finished garments were a huge success because, despite the physical changes in the design, we were able to employ a lot of the warehouse’s resources that would have otherwise gone to waste. Due to its several interconnected layers, the jacket has proven to be a particularly structurally solid garment. The trousers offer an excellent, adjustable fit, a cuffed bottom for weather resistance, and an adjustable waistline. Overall, the aesthetics are consistent, weatherproof; produced using practically all of the available resources.

 

-Fred

 

 

In the end, I am very satisfied with the camouflage print, but if I had to do it again, I would choose a screen print since I believe it would have produced prints with a cleaner appearance. Nevertheless, I am still pleased with the outcome.

If I had to make the jacket again, I would gather more tents of various colours and piece them together to create a patchwork, which would create a cohesive, brighter colour scheme. I would also make the jacket to resemble the initial sketches I made, and I would add more details to it to make it more distinctive. By experimenting with various ways, I would also devise a method of making sewing easier and I would also include a liner.

The reason the camouflage print couldn’t be done during the photoshoot was because of the wind and it made it very hard to create clean spray paint print using an acetate sheet and it was impossible to make it better during that windy day. maybe next time a jacket is made using cardboard a much heavier and structured material to spray paint with.

 

The Zoi Project, the parka jacket . Since there were multiple procedures involved in making this jacket, including cutting out the patterns, creating the paper plan to create the design, cutting out all the materials, and sewing it all together, it took more than 15 days to complete. Since the layers have minimal friction and are difficult to sew perfectly, putting it all together was one of my challenges. Another problem I had was understanding how much fabric was needed for this part of the jacket to work since I had to combine and use so many different parts to build it.

What I like about the jacket is that it became a really strong and stringy jacket due to the numerous layers, and I’m really happy that I used up almost all of the tent and a lot of the other materials. I’m also very happy that I used that terrible sleeping bag because I was really determined to use that sleeping bag, and in the end, I succeeded. I’m also pretty happy with the unique materials I utilised, like the tent’s black floor. I love the overall unified colour scheme of the jacket, and I can’t wait for the camouflage to be printed on it.