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Sustainability was the designers who balance care for the

environment with a humanity-first
approach to design to find the intersection
of style, innovation, and social
highlights of Taipei responsibility.

Various brands with existing sustainable
practices will utilize these textiles and
Fashion Week fabrics to create new concepts and raise
awareness, demonstrating how the link
between the local textile industry and
fashion designers can write a new chapter
in Made-in-Taiwan style. Participating
Taipei Fashion Week AW brands include DAMUR, Claudia Wang,
21 launched "Taipei DYCTEAM, JUST IN XX, oqLiq, and
Sustainable Collections" WEAVISM.
that centered around
sustainability. Taipei The highlights included:
Fashion Week is Asia's Claudia Wang utilized 3D virtual
first one-day joint show technology to minimize waste and present
centered around a pattern of eco-friendly designs made
sustainability. The from fish scale yarn, biodegradable light
showcase highlighted fabrics, and recycled nylon.
Taiwan's continued
innovation in The DYCTEAM collection featured recycled
eco-friendly and materials, eco-friendly processed natural
sustainable textile and cotton, reusable three-layered nylon, down
fabric development - alternatives, and biodegradable insulation
including, but not limited layers reinvented in the brand's image.
to, water and
energy-saving solution DAMUR showed Taiwan's latest metallic
dye techniques and membrane and lamination technology to
fabrics and textiles combine bold design with a realistic
created from epidemic prevention context.
post-consumer PET
bottles, recycled scrap JUST IN XX presented recycled fabrics
tires, fish scales, and transformed from plastic bottles, industrial
oyster shells. wastes, and non-toxic remade fabrics to
showcase Taiwanese craftsmanship
Taipei Fashion Week's through crocheting and laser-cutting fabric
sponsorship by the scraps for his Taiwan Olympic uniform.
Taiwan government
emphasizes an oqLiq has previously explored new fabric
increasing dedication to technologies and design applications,
protecting the including leather made by dam sediment
environment and and multifunctional materials made from
changing the fashion oyster shell powder mixed with plastic
industry by combining pellets created from recycled PET bottles.
innovative
manufacturing power WEAVISM has woven functional fabrics out
with emerging of unconventional natural materials such
designers' visions. Taipei as beeswax and banana leaves, where
Sustainable Collections clothes can merge with the earth after
is a platform for young being buried in the soil.

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