Zaneb Khatun

Biography

Zaneb Khatun is an innovative young fashion/textile designer, currently challenging conventions style through sustainability issues. She has a strong passion for working innovatively, producing beautifully crafted and aesthetically pleasing textiles for fashion.

Prior to her MA in Design For Textile Futures, she graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA hons degree in Textile Design. During her time at MMU she established herself as a mixed media designer, experimenting with a wide a variety of materials and styles. She also continued to develop her skills in drawing, as you will see from the unique illustrations in this book.

Whilst studying at Central Saint Martins Zaneb hopes to sharpen her working practice by experimenting with new materials and technologies in conjunction with her own work. After Graduating from her MA course, Zaneb intends to contribute to the future of the sustainable fashion and textile industry by becoming a sustainable eco-fashion and textile designer. With a practical working knowledge of environmental sustainability issues, she intends to contribute significantly to the future of environmentally sustainable fashion.

Final MA Project

Project Title:

Renewability

Research Question:

Can Consumers bye fewer garments with a longer lifespan due to the changeability of the design,colour and pattern making them fashionable in all seasons?

Key Words:

Evolving, reducing energy and resources, aesthetics, add or renew, transform, updatable fashionability, environmental, over-consumption, emotional, durable, ethical, reinforcing, social-responsibility.

Design Rationale:

Today’s fashion and textile industry is overflowing and dominated by a large number of similar, ready-made products in a limited range of fibre types. If consumers were aware and had the option of purchasing fashion garments that can last longer by using design strategies to improve both the physical and emotional durability of the garment, I believe they would do so. This will encourage consumers to buy fewer garments with a longer life. If consumers buy fewer clothes with longer lives, they will save time and money and exhaust emissions through not having to travel to shops as often. There will also be less waste from both the production process and from discarded clothing.

The Project:

Materials and Technology:

Explore a range of natural/organic fashion materials.

Light weight fabrics.

Working with recycled materials.

Experimenting with craft techniques with a key focus on laser- cutting screen, digital printing and hand appliqué.

Innovation:

The Innovative nature of the project is to produce a design collection that has a long lifespan, is emotionally durable with a multifunctional approach.

Textile Futures

Futures- short, medium and long- term- This project is intended to begin to influence consumers to see fashion not as something disposable and the change has to be written into the design as a Constance future.

Other Projects

• Future Habitat Project
• Graham and Brown^?

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