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Year: 2020

Location: Milan, Italy
Build: Design Competition
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With thousands of pounds of clothing moved into landfills every year, Interwoven amasses a large amount of clothing and recycles it into a massive structure to bring fabric out of landfills and into the public eye, shoving the amassed waste into the viewers face and bringing to the surface how fast fashion is spiraling out of control. Woven around each beam, each piece of clothing is organized by colour and connects those who originally wore the articles together. The hulking forms captivate all who walk by on the unifying runway. Located within the central vista of Parco Sempione, it captures the essence of fashion design and relates it back to its core which is the human connection. The installation takes inspiration from the maypole, a tall, typically wooden structure that is seen in various European folk festivals where a community dances around the pole, interweaving fabric as they run by each other creating a beautiful and intricate pattern just as human kind is woven together through their responsibility for this waste. As those who pass by observe the scale of the massive woven structure, it gives them a visual representation of the scale of waste produced by fast fashion and just how much of it ends up in landfills.

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