Our project is focused on upcycling, as a form of recycling in which discarded materials are converted into items of higher value than the original input, or discarded products are transformed, maintaining the original purpose and improving pre-existing factors – such as appearance and functions.

Taking inspiration from Blue of a Kind works, we turned a classic light blue pair of jeans into a cute long sleeved top. The process included:

• Designing the pattern of the top, overturning the waist piece of the jeans to cover the torso and then using the legs as jackets’ sleeves;
• Using a seam ripper to disassemble the pair of jeans, opening up the legs to form the sleeves of our top;
• Personalising the jacket using the laser cutter to engrave a customised graphic;
• Assembling the legs.