From trends to sustainable materials: The codfish leather as a potential and innovative material

• Autor(a) principal: Rosengren, Fabíola Martins de Paula
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/42536
• topic: Consumption; Fashion product; Codfish skin; Sustainable materials

The fashion industry globally has a huge effect on our environment as well as people's lives, and it is a monopoly led by Fast Fashion. The fashion industry has a production system necessary to meet the demands of many seasons, in addition to mini collections, which has an impact on the generation of pieces at low prices in the store. In fact, it ends up encouraging and inspiring consumers to buy more of what is used. In fact, Fast Fashion has changed the fashion industry and the consumer behaviour. The Fast Fashion production chain has problems of exploitation of workers, with low wages, unpaid overtime, use of labour from underdeveloped countries to make clothes. In fact, imposing precarious conditions of installation, thus, the use of chemical products that harms the health of workers and the environment. Considering that sustainability affects environmental, social and economic elements, and under deplorable working conditions, fast fashion becomes unsustainable. On the other hand, Slow Fashion, using Codfish skin by the product industry, can be part of a sustainable approach, reducing the pace of production processes. As a result, it could positively impact the fashion industry system. The fishing industry has a large amount of fish skin that is considered waste. However, fish skin can be transformed into a high-quality product, fish leather. Unfortunately, a small percentage of the skin is used to make the leather, e.g., Cod, Salmon, Wolf, among others, but most of it the European Environment Agency allows it to be discarded back into the sea. This project aims to use Codfish skin, a by-product of the industry, to produce accessories with waste transformed into a sustainable material. In this project, we used a methodology with SWOT analysis, interviews with design experts. Thus, a Coolhunting in the field of the fashion industry to identify sustainable and innovative materials. As part of the project, Codfish skins were used to test the development using natural raw material through dyeing with hibiscus tea, and turmeric. The hides with processed using natural pigments (tannin base).