Achieving the economic sustainability of women’s clothing from genuine leather by combining the patchwork technique and the art of Kimi Cantrell

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Lecturer - Clothing and Fashion Technology Department - Faculty of Applied Arts - Banha University

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There is no doubt that sustainable development requires improving the living conditions of all human beings and living organisms without increasing the use of natural resources beyond the endurance of the planet, as its operations should not primarily invest in these developmental processes during production. Resources The environmental component of land, sea, and air, whether through pollution or in the process of impoverishment or sabotage. It is necessary to invest optimally in the elements of production and production processes in a sustainable manner by using multiple strategies and systems to employ, protect and preserve natural, human, and financial resources in optimal ways to create a beneficial and sustainable balance in the long term. Considering this outpouring of interest in the environment and its preservation and maintenance, the term sustainability was born as an addition to development in general or as an economic, scientific, or cultural resource.
The research touched on the economic dimension of sustainability, by making use of the remnants of genuine leather resulting from the cutting and individual stages during the implementation of genuine leather fashion, by Suggesting designs for various pieces of women’s clothing using the remnants of genuine leather, and the patchwork technique was combined with the art of the ceramic artist. Kimmy Cantrell as a source of inspiration, for designs to achieve an economic dimension of sustainability, be innovative and fit in with contemporary art.
The designs were built on two axes: (the first axis: the designs achieve the economic dimension of sustainability, the second axis: innovation and appropriateness of designs with contemporary arts), and the extent of honesty and stability of the axes was ascertained, in addition to conducting surveys for opinion polls of specialized arbitrators on the achievement of the designs’ axes. The success of the axes, and thus the purpose of the research was achieved, which is to achieve the economic sustainability of genuine leather clothing by combining the patchwork technique and the art of Kimmy Cantrell.

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