Mariah Esa

Mariah Esa repurposes waste from the fast fashion industry to create her garments. Mariah created her first collection of four outfits using over 20,000 waste garment labels which were going to be thrown away by a fashion manufacturer. She is a designer trying to tackle the waste within the fast fashion industry. From her experience working in a manufacturer, Mariah was open to the amount of waste fabric and labels that were being thrown away and she found that garment labels were one of the main items being disposed of for slight faults. Sourcing labels which were either over produced or classed as rejects in the fast fashion industry, Mariah repurposed these waste garment labels and up-cycled them to create the base fabric of her award-winning graduate collection.

Due to current circumstances, we have been unable to leave our homes. Mariah took it upon her self to begin up-cycling videos for the public to keep active and to revive their wardrobes. Check out her channels on Youtube  Mariah Esa  to find her latest video of up cycling old socks into clothing.