10 Brazilian designers who created pieces with unusual materials

Who said fashion and sustainability can’t go together? Concerned with the future of the Planet (and even with the availability of raw materials for their creations), designers are increasingly thinking about the environmental issue when developing new pieces.

The most famous model in the world, the Brazilian Gisele Bündchen, is, in fact, a notorious enthusiast of the issue of sustainability on the catwalks, as shown in this article in the popular Vogue magazine.

In view of this, the Incredible.club brings 10 Brazilian designers who have adopted sustainable fashion and stood out for using unusual materials in the creations of their clothing items. Check out.

Lua Guirra is a stylist at Federal District and does not follow the fashion trends that emerge each season. With her unique style, she creates pieces made with recyclable material, such as PET bottles, VHS tapes, egg cartons, newspapers and plastics. Lua reuses items that are normally rejected by the majority to create exuberant clothes by hand. See the pictures below for examples of dresses created by Lua Guirra.

Dress made from newspaper

This wedding dress is made with toilet paper and TNT (the so-called non-woven)

Another highlight is this dress made with VHS tapes

Natural from CuritibaEdson Eddel is an advocate of sustainable fashion and manufactures parts with materials and methods that are not harmful to the environment, and that, on the contrary, help with recycling. He reuses plastics, tin and construction tarpaulins that would take hundreds of years to decompose in nature and produces luxurious wedding dresses that are nothing short of conventional styles. The pieces made by Edson are made to order, mixing recycled materials, fine fabrics and crystals.

Transparent wedding dress in recycled plastic material

In addition to the transparent plastic, the dress can be made in other colors.

Watch, in the video below, a sample of Eddel’s dress collection

the stylist mining Iáskara has a degree in Fashion Design from the Federal University of the State of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Iáskara stands out in the fashion world because she uses cement bags and natural banana and taquaraçu fibers as raw material in the production of lace to compose the garments. The creation process basically consists of grinding the materials until they become a uniform paste. Then, manually, the lace is drawn. Check out below how a material that is discarded in construction works can be transformed into delicate and exuberant clothes and party dresses.

Wedding dress and veil are embellished with delicate lace made with cement

Now, a beautiful lace skirt that is dyed with materials of vegetable and mineral origin.

Long dress with lace in colors reminiscent of the Brazilian flag

the ex-mason Bahian Joel Souza is recognized inside and outside the country for his creations of wallets, belts, bags and dresses, reusing unusual items seen as garbage by most people, such as pet bottles and soda cans. National celebrities such as the Bahian singer Gilmelândia (or Gil) have already worn their clothes and accessories. In the photos below, get to know a little better about Joel’s work.

This metallic dress is made with soda can bottoms

Can seals together create relaxed productions

In addition to metallic, the cans also come in different colors.

Sister Bernardes is From Rio and a full artist: poet, designer of recyclable jewelry unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Winner of several awards for the originality of her creations, one of these awards for the development of a PET capsule packaging that can be used as a jewelry box — photos below. Check out the original pieces made with food scraps.

PET Capsule Packaging

Carrot “sequins” (chips)

Garlic head husks dress

Baby Steinberg is from Santa Catarina, but currently lives in Canada. The stylist is adept at sustainable fashion and uses leftover materials such as VHS tapes and coffee filters, which are given a new destination, turning into works of art, as you can see in the photos below.

Christmas season served as inspiration for this dress

This costume is made with coffee filters.

This top is made with dental suction tubes with expired dates and the skirt produced with scraps of cast plastic and gold leaf.

Consuello was born in Sao Paulo and is a stylist engaged in environmental causes, working to defend the recycling of materials, allocating them to the manufacture of clothes. She disseminates her working method so that other professionals can also be inspired to do the same.

Consuello uses plastic packaging such as shampoo and fabric softener, CDs, among other items as raw material for her creations. The pieces produced are not sold, but rented for events. In the following photos, check out some examples of unusual materials present in Consuello’s creations.

X-ray cutouts give the pieces shine and elegance

And toothpaste tubes get a new use by transforming into this trendy dress.

Dog and cat food packages transform into a stylish dress in the hands of the stylist

Geová Rodrigues is potiguar, but lives in the United States, where his studio is based. Sustainable fashion entered Geová’s life as an alternative to literally support him, as he could not afford to buy materials and the idea arose of reusing leftover fabric and lines for the production of his clothing items.

In Brazil, the stylist has stores in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, places to discover and buy his spontaneous and unique style creations.

Geová is famous for creating eccentric pieces and totally unconcerned with fashion trends.

Leftover fabric that for many stylists are considered rubbish, in Geová’s hands are transformed into luxury dresses

Geová recreates pieces from renowned brands, such as Gucci

Stylist Sú Martins develops works in the region of Goiás showing people, alternatives to reuse products that are discarded in our daily lives and can be destined for the production of clothes, with emphasis on the fabric of broken umbrellas and tapestry scraps. In the following photos, some examples of Sú’s creations are shown. Just check.

Broken umbrella fabric turns into garments

How is this beautiful crop top made with umbrella fabric

In addition to crop topdue to the versatility of umbrella fabrics, they can be used to make dresses, backpacks and clutches.

Tony Palha is a stylist born in Lookout (Pará) and reference when it comes to sustainable fashion combined with elegance. With a career spanning over 25 years, he has worked for famous brands such as Valentino and Dolce&Gabana and has visited the world taking his creations to several countries, such as Japan, where he showed the diversity of the Amazon with the exhibition of his clothing collection.

In his international career, he worked on the costumes of celebrities such as Elton John. In Brazil, Tony is very active in the creation of costumes for Miss contests and also gives lectures to discuss sustainable fashion in the world of haute couture. Currently, he presents a program on RedeTV de Belém called “A moda turned moda”. Check out below a sample of the work developed by Tony Palha.

Costume with 100% recycled and sustainable fabric by Tony Palha that paraded at Pará Fashion Week 2017

Fabrics are reused and make up exuberant productions

Tony Palha in a lecture on sustainable fashion

Do you believe that you can produce different clothes and pieces using recyclable material? Or, in your opinion, are the pieces shown here just concepts and have no practical use?

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