Gary Harvey was the creative director for Levi Strauss for 10 years. He started designing his own dresses when he needed dramatic piece’s for the freelance fashion campaigns he was working on but his recycling of clothes started before then, when he was at college and could not afford to buy new fabrics, so he would use whatever he could find.
Gary’s first creation was a dress made from 42 pair’s of Levi 501’s with a corseted waist and teamed with a cropped demin jacket. Demin was first made as a work uniform and as Gary says jeans are “made in a fabric designed to last years” but since they have become part of everyday fashion they “are often discarded for the latest silhouette before the end of their useful life”
Since his first dress he has designed a dress from 28 army jackets fashioned into a fishtail cocktail dress. A gown from 30 copies of the Financial Times, which were attached to a salmon pink corset, to create a “tulle” skirt. And a gown made from 10 bridal dresses in white and cream, in both silk and polyester, with beaded bodices. Reconstructed to create a dress with a 6 meter diameter and worn with a bow-collared blouse.
Gary’s moviation for designing his collection “is about re-contextualising iconic, everyday garmets to create new silhouettes” and sees that “renewable fashion is just one way of dealing with the worlds limited natural resources.”
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