Zero Waste Fashion

Dr. Richa Prakash

Abstract: Zero waste fashion custom dates back to the period when animal skins were drawn as a way of wrapping the body. The most traditional known piece of clothing have not created any waste in the phase of textile manufacturing. Fashion industry is one of the industries that produce a lot of waste during its growth. Fast fashion is widely common but fast fashion consumers don't realize about the development of waste in fast fashion clothes. It's time to find ways to produce a minimal or no waste when producing clothing. Zero Waste Fashion is regarded as the way to manufacture clothing with or without minimal waste. There are different methods of generation of non-waste apparel and fabric, such as tessellation, jigsaw, geo cut, multi ?cloth approach, transformational reconstruction to name a few.

Keywords: Fashion, Zero Waste, Sustainability, Eco-friendly