The Cut<\/a> points out that the mission is difficult because in order for no waste to result from manufacture, clothing producers will have to fit random scraps of fabric together perfectly on a regular basis.<\/p>\nThough zero-waste seems impractical, the idea of producing less waste in the first place rather than creating clothes from recycled scraps, as many eco-chic brands do, makes a whole lot of sense. It can be difficult to make irregular fabric pieces more couture than crafty, but in the right hands, the unique nature of each piece could even be a selling point. It would be great to see fashion get 100% behind zero-waste!<\/p>\n
Additional reporting by Karilynn Williamson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fact: It costs less money for clothing manufacturers to throw away the scraps from their cutting room floors than to recycle them.<\/p>\n
Fiction: Not a single designer in the world of fashion cares.<\/p>\n
Though the Times says 15-20 percent of the fabric used to create clothing ends up in landfills, a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153small but impassioned\u00e2\u20ac\u009d group of designers including Mark Liu, Julian Roberts and Zandra Rhodes, in addition to students at Parsons, have dedicated themselves to working toward a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153zero-waste\u00e2\u20ac\u009d policy in fashion \u00e2\u20ac\u201c meaning not a single scrap of fabric thrown out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[185,1116,501,6846,58,132,4263,4261,4264,247,4262],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15204"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15210,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204\/revisions\/15210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}