VISHMITHA KRISNA KUMAR

 Life Line Clothing Malaysia (LLCM) SITE VISIT  Lifeline Clothing Malaysia (LLCM) is a prominent company involved in the recycling of second-hand clothing and textiles.  During our visit to LLCM, we first were required to meet at uni to take our attendance before we had departed to the factory. We had then departed and arrived at the venue around 9.30 am.  Figure 1: Gathered in front of the premises.  Figure 2: Briefing regarding safety precautions around the premises and a little insight about LLCM and its importance to the fashion industry and waste around the world.  By recycling and reusing textiles, LLCM contributes to reducing waste and promoting sustainable fashion practices. This helps in minimizing the environmental impact of textile waste, which is a significant issue globally. They have about 1000 bins across Malaysia in stores like IKEA. LOTUS and TESCO. In this site visit, we are able to tearn how they recover their textiles. LLCM has zero wast...

TASK 01 - FASHION ETHIC: CODE OF PRACTICE  INITIAL ROUGH IDEAS :  PANEL 1:  1. Cutting up a piece of white denim to test the manipulation. Then iron out the denim a create a crumpled effect to replicate the whale skin texture.  Figure 1: Cutting a test piece of fabric of measurements 23x23 cm. Figure 2: Iron scrap fabric.  Figure 3: Crumpled the fabric then ironed it to create an uneven texture.  2.  Tie up the crumpled fabric and paint strokes along the folded ends. Do 2 lawyers of paint to be able to stain the fabric. Then sew straight down the painted lines to create the texture of the skin.  Figure 4. Figure 5. Figure 6: Double coated the jeans with blue paint Figure 7: Stitched straight lines across the blue paint.  ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION:  1. As I wasn’t satisfied with the outcome, I decided to take a different approach. I had used a shade of dark blue denim to create pintucks as my texture.  Figure 8: cut out a piece of jeans w...