The implementation of standardized grading production practices within the mass market
has been challenging for scholars experimenting with zero-waste apparel design. The …

The apparel industry is a major contributor to environmental problems from textile
manufacturing through garment production and distribution to consumer discard—donation …

This outfit represents a unique way to achieve multiple sizes within zero waste garments
without using traditional grading methods. Instead, the pattern shapes remain constant …

Prior to recent advances in technology–most notably the internet–social and industrial
uptake of changes in clothing trends occurred more slowly as information took longer to …

Zero-waste design is a sustainable way of manufacturing products. While sustainability can
be an outcome of such designing, in fashion, zero-waste design can also be a tremendously …

This article provides a summary of a study exploring sustainable apparel design methods
incorporating the use of post-consumer recycled clothing and materials in the design of new …

This thesis examines zero-waste fashion design: design activity that results in zero-waste
garments. Conventional design approaches waste approximately 15 per cent of the fabric …

This paper for the first time demonstrates the application of the concept of Zero-Waste
Pattern Cutting (ZWPC) into mass production of apparel to tackle over 60 billion square …

Shortened lifecycles of apparel products resulting from today's rapid fashion cycles generate
significant amounts of post-consumer textile waste (PCTW) in the form of used or second …

This practice-based design research explores methods of eliminating textile waste through
utilising zero waste pattern cutting to expand the outcomes possible through composite …