AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Responsible Consumption & Production
KEYWORDS
3d printing, zero waste , sustainable fashion
COUNTRY
Spain
DESIGNED BY
Ane Castro Sudupe & Nuria Costa Ginjaume
WEBSITE
https://globalchangeaward.com/winners/zero-waste-tailoring/
ZER Collection - zero waste tailoring
ZER Collection is brand that design reuseable 3D printed garments made without wasting any resources
The brand ZER Collection has revolutionized the Spanish fashion scene by incorporating 3D printing into its designs with a double goal: to accelerate production processes, and to bet on sustainability through the reduction of waste and the use of recycled materials.
From the beginnings of the brand, Costa and Ane Castro, her co-founder and ZER Collection’s other designer, set the goal of contributing to the introduction of new technologies in the apparel industry. In their exploration of new opportunities in sustainable manufacturing practiced and explored 3D printing.
For them, including additive manufacturing into their processes has had many significant benefits. The first one is that now they can “digitize all patterns in order to produce only the necessary fabric”. During the cutting process of most of the apparel we wear, “normally up to 30% of the fabric goes to waste”. Using a 3D printer means that they produce “only the fabric needed for each garment."