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Tara Deacon : 24Central and Greenside, Johannesburg -
Jared Odell : Florida Road, Durban -
Adam Court : Kloof Street, Prestwich Street and Roeland Street, Cape Town
WORDS Debbie Loots
Capsule Projects’s ecological fashion drive, Tomorrow Society, has unveiled three clothes-recycling bins by local designers. Innovative and beautiful, get down to one of the selected Vida e Caffès to drop off your unwanted clothes today – not tomorrow.
In fitting with the green theme of the fashion recycle project, designers Tara Deacon, Adam Court and Jared Odell all sought to do the same with their bins.
Tara made a spaced-out Coke bottle-bottom bin, which cost her many hours at a recycling plant. But, for her trouble she got all the plastic bottles in the world she wanted, as well as first-hand insight into the world of recycling plastic. Her two bins, titled Solstice, can be seen at the Vidas in Joburg: 24Central in Sandton and Greenside.
Also keeping things environmentally friendly is a beautiful bin design by Adam Court, made from recycled pine dowels and board by Cabinetwork. See it in Cape Town Vidas: Kloof, Prestwich and Roeland Streets.
Jared Odell’s bin is a product of off-cuts from previous projects. Dowels and string keep things together and the top and bottom bits are made from bamboo, a most environmentally friendly wood because it grows so fast! See it in Durban at the Florida Street Vida.
After the cut-off date, 15 August, the collected clothes will be distributed to select fashion designers who will transform them into contemporary re-creations. An online exhibition will follow with pictures taken by a group of fashion photographers during October.
