ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses and explores the role that design-led approaches can perform in encouraging people to (re-)engage with clothing repair. Fashion designing for sustainability involves engaging in strategies and approaches that can help reduce or avoid the social, environmental, economic and cultural impacts associated with the production and consumption of fashion clothing. The task for the menders involved repairing a hole in either a pair of denim jeans or a cotton t-shirt to what they considered a wearable standard. Garment designs that make use of deflective devices such as intentional stains, rips, tears and holes provide the fashion designer with the opportunity to develop clothes that embrace future damage, leaving it untouched and unnoticed. Garment designs that make use of deflective devices such as intentional stains, rips, tears and holes provide the fashion designer with the opportunity to develop clothes that embrace future damage, leaving it untouched and unnoticed.
