For her Adidas collection, fashion designer Stella McCartney has unveiled two prototype products that recycles old clothing into new ones. In an attempt to address waste in the fashion industry, McCartney and Adidas partnered with textile innovations company Evrnu to create the biodegradable dress and the world’s first fully recyclable hoodie.
The ‘Infinite Hoodie,’ is made using 60 percent nucycl fibre, a material created from the threads of old garments. the process breaks down the cotton to its original polymer, which is extracted to become liquid pulp before being processed using a 3D-printer-like machine to create a new yarn.
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The second product adidas by Stella Mccartney has debuted is a prototype ‘biofabric tennis dress,’ created in partnership with bolt threads. the company specialises in bioengineered sustainable materials and fibres, and has developed the tennis dress using a cellulose blended yarn and microsilk, a protein-based material that is made with renewable ingredients, like water, sugar, and yeast.
‘Fashion is one of the most harmful industries to the environment,’ said Stella McCartney in a statement. ‘We can’t wait any longer to search for answers and alternatives. By creating a truly open approach to solving the problem of textile waste, we can help empower the industry at large to bring more sustainable practices into reality. With adidas by stella mccartney we’re creating high performance products that also safeguard the future of the planet.’
Is this the future of clothing? I sure hope this will be.
(Image Credit: Adidas / Stella McCartney)