Recycling,

Recycling,

Recycling means to reuse, its no different in fashion, many designers reuse clothes, organic material, rubbish and random materials like newspaper, tin cans and even cardboard,

Alexander McQueen,

I choose the four examples below to show case Alexander McQueens use of recycled materials, all of them are of an organic origin,

'The Horn of Plenty, Autumn/Winter 2010', Dyed black Duck feathers,

'Widows of Culoden, Autumn/Winter 2007,' Pheasant Feathers,

'Its a Jungle Out There, Autumn/Winter 1998' reused and bleached jeans, and Impala horns mounted on to a pony skin jacket.

'Voss, Spring/Summer 2001,' Razor clam shells, from a norfolk beach,

Li Xiaofeng

Li Xiaofeng, is a Chinese artist based in Beijing, I choose his wearable porcelain garments as an example of recycling in fashion due to the fact he uses  porcelain fragments form the Ming dynasty,

Here Li Xiaofeng created the most expensive Lacoste Polo t-shirt the 317 pieces took three months to piece together,

here's a more wearer friendly polo created from digital photographs of the porcelain shards,