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