Alongside her new season’s collection, Georgina Goodman showed her first pair of couture recycled shoes, made from hundreds of stripped drinks cans. Launched as part of Estethica, the showcase for environmentally friendly designers at London Fashion Week last month that saw the launch of the new line by Katherine Hamnett, the shoes were not actually at the Natural History Museum event but were shown on a plinth in her Mayfair shop, and are due to be aunctioned off soon to raise money for the NSPCC.
Recycled design is starting to gain momentum but is still relatively unexplored in it’s use for couture pieces. Georgina Goodman is hoping to inspire other designers to investigate the use of recycling with high-fashion, and to start to produce completely renewable fashions. During Fashion Week webchats.tv conducted an interview with Georgina about these shoes, where she discussed the importance not only of recycling but of utilising all fabrics to the maximum, and limiting waste as much as possible.
"As a designer, you’re sort of presented with different materials to use and it’s very exciting and challenging to be presented with a material like metal and this is recycled drinks cans specifically. To make something elegant and amazing and very glamorous and I’d say very ‘red carpet’ – because conjuring up a picture of something recycled, especially in fashion, it doesn’t always feel like it’s a glamorous item"
"I think the interesting thing for me is that a drinks can is infinitely recyclable so you literally could unpick this metal, take it off the shoe, melt it down. I mean a drinks can can be crushed down, put in a bin and six weeks later it ends up on the shelf again"
"I do recycle every single piece of leather so I’ll cut a pair of
shoes out and anything that’s left over which is quite often a strange
shape I just think I cannot bear the thought of quite literally an animal dying to make a pair of shoes so if
you’re using the whole thing … everything I use is part of the food
chain so I never use an animal that can’t be eaten and then out of
those scraps I’ll make purses or key rings"
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