The world's first self-service garment factory

The fast-fashion industry’s toxic impact on Earth was overlooked for quite a while now, but now things start to change. More and more organisations and activists bring public attention to the disastrous conditions, in which people work to produce the clothes that people would wear up to 7 times in the whole period of owning it, and throw it away. While many of the fabric types are not recyclable because of the components of different nature mixed together (cotton with polyester), all this apparel trash is piled on huge junk yards to stay for hundreds of years. If these clothes would be of decent quaity, they could go to thrift shops and charity organisations and be re-used, but it’s impossible with the present conditions of such garments. So how to escape this way of consuming clothes? There are 3 ways: to buy the ethically produced clothing (which is very expensive), to create new ways of recycling the cheap fabrics (which would take years to come up with and which are also quite bad for the environment for maximazing the carbon footprint), or to produce the clothes for yourself. While it may seem to be crazy, this idea can have a huge positive impact on ecology and personal well-being of the individual. The clothes would be of high-quality, you can choose the recycleable type of fabric, and the proces of producing would make you more conscious of consuming the produced goods. The clothes could be also given for re-use in the end of their life cycle. But it seems like a hard task for a regular person, right? Well, not exactly. With latest technology and laser cutters for fabric the process of producing a couple of pieces of clothing can be fast and relatively easy. With some professional guidance and lectures the process can be carried out on the professional level. All of this inspired me to create the World’s First Self-Service Garment Factory. This project should become a starting point of opening this kind of facilities in every city in the world.

La prima fabbrica di abbigliamento self-service al mondo