What started as mindless scrolling turned into hours of (pinterest) research, pattern saving and googling. There were a lot of different avenues Cristina researched before landing on what would eventually be her final project. At first she wanted to start a company that would take existing clothes and turn them into keepsakes - dad’s shirts made into baby girls dresses, grandmas sweater turned into a teddy bear, t-shirt quilts, etc. However this brought up too many variables - pricing, things possibly getting lost in the mail, items getting damaged, and human error, especially dealing with such sentimental items. As Cristina looked more into this, she found a company called Fabscrap. This is a company based in Brooklyn that takes in fabric waste from other companies, sorts through it and recycles or resells that fabric. What most sites were not explaining was that when fashion companies talk about ‘scrap’ fabric, this could mean a small corner or entire rolls. Although there are rules on recycling and how these companies are supposed to get rid of their scraps, there are so many companies and so few entities who can really enforce these rules, none of them were being followed. Fabscrap makes deals with these companies to accept all their scrap and extra fabric under the agreement that no one is ever told that they work with them. That way it never gets out that anyone can go to some warehouse in Brooklyn and buy Chanel’s fabric for five dollars a pound, but it never ends up in a landfill. The more research Cristina did into Fabscrap, the more she realized how easy it would be to really create something out of this old fabric.
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