Waste to Wear is a sustainable fashion brand that uses pre-consumer discarded textiles from local fashion houses to make new fashionable products. The project is a collaboration between Joy Wanja, Stephanie Musombi, Immaculate Wangari and Jeremy Omukoba. The team worked together to address a textile management problem for fashion producers, particularly small-scale brands producing locally in Kenya, by collecting their textile waste and giving it a new life. The project aims to encourage local fashion enterprises to practice ethical fashion through proper waste management.
- MEET THE NAIROBI HUB VOUCHER SCHEME RECIPIENTS: Waste to Wear
By Waithira Kibuchi Textiles are an indispensable part of human life. We use them to dress our bodies and our environments and have become so accustomed to their presence that we often take them for granted. If you are reading this now, you are most likely wearing clothing, and are in a room with upholstered…