By repurposing scrap materials into gear, employing resettled refugees, and partnering with leading brands, Adiff is modeling a more sustainable textile industry
Design label ADIFF is cooking up innovative solutions to fashion’s waste problem.
The woman-founded label’s new book, The Open Source Fashion Cookbook,” offers recipes and tips for DIY sustainable designs. The recipes provide directions for creating everything from a shirt dress comprised of button-downs to a hat made from an umbrella.
The amount of clothing Americans throw away every year has doubled in the last 20 years from 7 million to 14 million tons, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
ADIFF co-founder Angela Luna believes that fashion should be socially responsible. In 2016, Luna, then a senior at Parsons School of Design, told Here & Now about a coat she created that turns into a tent for unhoused people. The garment is now a centerpiece at ADIFF.
Think of all the detritus filling up your apartment: a busted old umbrella, a ruler from high school geometry, a shower curtain. You probably think it’s trash, but Angela Luna and Loulwa Al Saad, the cofounders of fashion brand ADIFF, want you to see them as raw materials. Or, better yet, as ingredients. With a little savvy and some sewing tools, that umbrella can become a jacket. That shower curtain is a few steps from being a bucket hat. Luna and Al Saad want to show you how.
ADIFF’s
Open Source Fashion Cookbook, published last month, is exactly what the cover advertises. It’s
Think of all the detritus filling up your apartment: a busted old umbrella, a ruler from high school geometry, a shower curtain. You probably think it’s trash, but Angela Luna and Loulwa Al Saad, the cofounders of fashion brand ADIFF, want you to see them as raw materials. Or, better yet, as ingredients. With a little savvy and some sewing tools, that umbrella can become a jacket. That shower curtain is a few steps from being a bucket hat. Luna and Al Saad want to show you how.
ADIFF’s
Open Source Fashion Cookbook, published last month, is exactly what the cover advertises. It’s