IQTEST "Come as You Are"

Melissa Lockwood’s collections are based on regenerative design and ways to change a wasteful system in the fashion industry to a regenerative system. Through her research she discovered that designers can avoid creating factory waste fabrics by designing into the waste pattern areas and applying radial geometry to the multiple same shape pieces created during mass production. By analyzing the waste areas before production and including it in the designing of garments and accessories the fabric can be utilized and kept out of the landfills.