Bio

Frances Brunner was a Finalist of the Redress Design Award 2023. She is studying for her bachelor's degree in Fashion Design from Kent State University, USA.

“Our drive should not be to create fashion that happens to be sustainable, but rather create sustainable systems that happen to be fashionable.” – Frances Brunner

redress Design Award Collection

Frances’ Redress Design Award collection, ‘It’s All Fluff’, explores how the ego is expressed in fashion, using secondhand clothing including a self-made modified denim textile. The denim is shredded by hand or cut with a laser, processed with just one washer cycle to distress the fibres, then stitched or felted. The resulting material provides acoustic insulation, protecting consumers from toxic noise pollution, while remaining lightweight and comfortable. Frances also screen-prints on the garments with a biodegradable water-based ink. For the products’ end-of-life, she invites consumers to return them to her studio to be upcycled, or to send them on to other denim recycling programmes to be manufactured into industry-grade insulation.

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