Regenerative Fashion Design
by: Melissa Lockwood
Sustainably sourced fabrics.
Ethically made with living wages.
Support Women in the workplaces.
Inspiring Slow Fashion with Quality.
Circular Production, repairs and replace.
This is a pair of carefully up-cycled pants with stripes down the side. The pants are a soft cotton with a silver sheen.
The tee shirt is bright orange and is hand drawn one of a kind by the artist Melissa Lockwood. It is permanent non toxic fabric paint applied as an original artwork. The shirt it fits up to a large and the jacket is tailored to fit a size Medium Women's and un pinned in back it fits a mens 38-40.
All are on of a kind and handmade by the Artist.
Also, you get these two fine art prints on canvas. All are copyright protected, they are Melissa's original artwork.
It is a part of a Conceptual Art project Melissa Lockwood is making to raise awareness about fast fashion pollution and how so much clothing is going into the landfill.
By purchasing her garments and 2D art pieces you are supporting her mission to lower fashion industry waste and a survivor.
These specific items speak about the massive amouts of fast fashion waste in the Atacama Desert in Chile and how we need to stop fast fashions negative
Our practice is based on sustainability, the overall health of the planet and its inhabitants is at the core of our decision making.
At present, we are using the most eco, ethical materials we can find that match our product needs, price point, and values.
Supply Chain: Our garments are made with fabrics that were remnants. The fabrics used to make these garments were salvaged. They were pulled from the waste stream into the use stream. We are using fabrics diverted from the landfill. Reduced pollution.
Fair trade and fairly paid: We only work with organizations that adhere to the living wage pay for their employees work.
Women’s Empowerment: We work with woman-owned businesses and/or partners who value women across all areas of our business. We design to flatter a woman’s natural figure, just as she is. We seek diversity in our models. We depict our designs on women in a range of professions.
Philanthropic heart: We donate to Green Peace because they do a great job informing people about how to help the earths environment.
Restorative Justice: We look for ways to “flip the script” and turn any industry exploitation into opportunities for empowerment.
Connectivity and Education Educate our consumers on how they can make more conscious decisions.
Gorgeous, one-of a kind dress, made with high quality materials. I wore it and got many compliments. I love that the clothing is sustainable and reversible. Thank You!
Melissa Lockwood
Artist
In 2010 after seeing large size dumpsters filled with new fabric going to the landfill, Melissa Lockwood started creating works speaking about manufacturing waste and pollution.
An artist not a designer she knew she had to change the way the garment manufacturers see its extra fabrics.
She embarked on making and selling garments made with fabrics local NY designers threw away. IQTEST has been seen in Vogue, Downtown Magazine, NY Times, WSJ, Venice Biennale, Paris and Cannes Film Festival.