The five upcycling commandments - it

Your old outfits deprive you?Don't throw them away.Here are our tips to transform them without losing their chic.

Your jeans you will transform

Timeless and most worn uniform around the world, the jeans pollute a lot (hundreds of liters of water for a single room)."But it can easily be reworked and allows crazy creativity," enthuses Océane Nelien.In September 2020, the founder of the label we designed a whole collection from recovered jeans.Result: split skirts, jackets and unstructured pants ... "My advice: make a handbag with long jeans.Two or three scissors and a few points are enough!»On-Oceanenelien.FR

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Adult clothes you will shrink

Adult clothing can also have a second life ... in the wardrobe of children!The start-up Canette offers to transform adult sizes into pieces for kids.Using DIY kits (boss, son, haberdashery articles and explanatory book), a man shirt will thus turn into bloomer or in a barbotor, a woolen sweater will become a cache ... a way of having funavoiding waste.

From 22 € per kit.Duckling.Com

Fabric falls you will use

« Il suffit d'une bande de tissu pour réaliser un chouchou ou un bandeau, d'un vieux drap pour se faire une petite robe d'été ou un kimono pour la plage… La seule limite est celle de l'imagination ! » explique Elisa Sebag, fondatrice de Patron & Fils, un atelier-boutique qui propose des cours de couture à Paris.If we have falls of different colors, sizes and shapes, they can also give birth to patchworks.Or how to give a seventies note to a tote bag or a bob.Patronetfils.Com

Embroidery you will wear

« L'avantage de la broderie, c'est que c'est une façon ludique et très économique de remettre au goût du jour une pièce trop vue dans son armoire, ou de réhabiliter un vêtement fétiche qu'on ne pouvait plus porter parce qu'il était abîmé ou taché », explique Elisa Sebag, de Patron & Fils.Using threads, a needle and a embroidery drum, we thus affix a message inspired on a faded t-shirt, we sprinkle a trench a little too eliminated ... What to assert his style, that'it is badass or romantic.

Your top "tube" you will make

Co -founder of the Rusmin brand, Rubi Pigeon "gives life to sapes".On Instagram, the 22 -year -old woman shares her creations.His last obsession?Nineties "tube" tops."It is not very difficult to make: I recover for example a flexible cotton t-shirt, a fine mesh sweater or even a jersey dress, and I get rid of the sleeves and the collar, then I tighten the songfabric remaining using my sewing machine.Particularly cool with baggy pants!»The back -to -school tube?

@Rubipigeon