DURHAM CHARITY FASHION SHOW

D.U.C.F.S- ... Durham Charity Fashion Show was an event which took part in January 2022. The event is run on a yearly basis by The University of Durham. For this runway show, Bodawear presented full looks from the very first ' S/S 21 collection, including Ruby Elizia's first ever trench coat design: a coat made entirely from white re-cycled fabrics, - the coat was based on the concept of historical lab coats with modern medical wear

'Plastic Problems' is what I titled my 'Surface Design' university project. Being a print / textile based project, I linked this to my label 'Bodawear', and decided to further explore sustainability and biological textures, but this time I delved into the realms of oceanic pollution, looking at the ways in which plastic pollution in the ocean can affect our health - and also the health of our sea life. I would take ocean nets and trap them in between hot layers of plastic- to explore how these substances might decompose themselves in our ocean over time. I also came across a specimen, called the 'Ideonella sakaiensis' , a microbe which was discovered to be able to 'eat' and decompose of plastics faster- preventing ocean pollutions