Full Circle: Ready-finished and Recoverable Fashion

Commissioned by Boston Museum of Fine Arts for #Techstyle Exhibition and permanent collection in 2016

This exhibit aims to demonstrate a rethink of current manufacturing systems from a linear model of production and disposal into a fully closed-loop material cycle. How might this change the designer’s use of materials and processes or even the expansion of the designer’s role to include the complete design of a product’s lifecycle?
The FULL CIRCLE prototype will explore the potential of using emerging production technologies to construct ready-finished clothes, or other 3D textile products, from 100% polyester materials, in a streamlined and digitally driven system, which is compatible with the most efficient recovery technologies at end-of-life.
This project has emerged from the Laser Line 2D body of work which Goldsworthy has been developing since 2009. The garment prototypes in this work are developed from a collaboration with fashion designer David Telfer. By merging the Laser Line techniques for finishing and joining textiles with his innovative models for garment construction, including ‘Zero Waste’ and ‘Minimal Seam’, we see a blueprint for resource-efficient, custom-manufactured fashion products. With controlled material inputs we can create products that retain their original, mono‐material composition, capable of being endlessly recycled in a strict, closed‐loop system. Cyclability is designed in at the outset.

As well as cutting and seaming garment products in a streamlined way, FULL CIRCLE also demonstrates the ability of the Laser Line 2D system to incorporate finishing and decoration (Mono Finishing) into the same production line. Many traditional finishing techniques can be replicated, that would otherwise require the use of wet chemicals or by combining materials that make them near impossible to recycle. This process demonstrates environmental gains in production with less transportation between different manufacturing sites, fewer materials and chemicals, and vastly reduced water use.

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