The Fundamentals remanufactured clothing range and accompanying wholly transparent system unlocks the latent qualities of undervalued resources. The impetus for this work was the devastating effects of the current linear, 20th century ‘take, make, waste’ fashion system which is the 2nd most polluting industry on the planet. This design system provides a solution to utilize textile and clothing waste through a comprehensive design strategy which includes remanufacturing processes and 3 upcycling techniques; conjoined, spliced and pieced; which could be applied to any given garment.

Space between is a social enterprise/research platform at the College of Creative Arts in Massey University, which enables students’ recent graduates and fashion researchers to work together with a shared philosophy to bring about 'positive change' in industry. We work according two distinct but complementary strategies to design with the textile waste from the current system and to ultimately eliminate waste from industry by design in closed loop’ solutions. Space Between aims to design out textile waste by using redundant corporate clothing (and other waste material) and design in closed-loop solutions to eliminate the creation of waste from the outset through services, education and research.