Recycled Cigarette Filter Dress
Developed as part of a graduate thesis by a Chilean based designer the Geurrero Mantis project uses dyed cigarette butts picked from bars, streets, and restaurants.
Developed as part of a graduate thesis by a Chilean based designer the Geurrero Mantis project uses dyed cigarette butts picked from bars, streets, and restaurants.
This is an eco-friendly alternative to slaughtering whales for fashion! Just kidding, but for nearly three hundred years, starting in the 15th century, whalebone was used as reinforcement in women’s clothing. Used in both corsets and dresses the flexible and thin whale bone could cinch in the belly and provide billowy structure to voluminous skirts. [...]