Taipei Fashion Week AW 21 Launched “Taipei Sustainable Collections” that centered around sustainability. Taipei Fashion Week is Asia’s first one-day joint show centered around sustainability held on 11 March 2021. The showcase highlighted Taiwan’s continued innovation in eco-friendly and sustainable textile and fabric development – including, but not limited to, water and energy-saving solution dye techniques and fabrics and textiles created from post-consumer PET bottles, recycled scrap tires, fish scales, and oyster shells.
Taipei Fashion Week’s sponsorship by the Taiwan government emphasizes an increasing dedication to protecting the environment and changing the fashion industry by combining innovative manufacturing power with emerging designers’ visions.
Taipei Sustainable Collections is a platform for young designers who balance care for the environment with a humanity-first approach to design to find the intersection of style, innovation, and social responsibility.
Various brands with existing sustainable practices will utilize these textiles and 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 brands include DAMUR, Claudia Wang, DYCTEAM, JUST IN XX, oqLiq, and WEAVISM.
The highlights included:
Claudia Wang utilized 3D virtual technology to minimize waste and present a pattern of eco-friendly designs made from fish scale yarn, biodegradable light fabrics, and recycled nylon.
The DYCTEAM collection featured recycled materials, eco-friendly processed natural cotton, reusable three-layered nylon, down alternatives, and biodegradable insulation layers reinvented in the brand’s image.
DAMUR showed Taiwan’s latest metallic membrane and lamination technology to combine bold design with a realistic epidemic prevention context.
JUST IN XX presented recycled fabrics transformed from plastic bottles, industrial wastes, and non-toxic remade fabrics to showcase Taiwanese craftsmanship through crocheting and laser-cutting fabric scraps for his Taiwan Olympic uniform.
oqLiq has previously explored new fabric technologies and design applications, including leather made by dam sediment and multifunctional materials made from oyster shell powder mixed with plastic pellets created from recycled PET bottles.
WEAVISM has woven functional fabrics out of unconventional natural materials such as beeswax and banana leaves, where clothes can merge with the earth after being buried in the soil.
