Recycling..

Fashion is about creating new and exciting garments and when designers decide to recycle alternative materials for their garments it brings a whole new lease of life to their collections.

Alexander McQueen was one of the best designers who sourced out these alternative materials putting them together to create unique collections.

Here are a number of pieces from the collection at the museum of modern art where McQueen has creatively used recycled materials in his work.

Using feathers

using flowers

using Razor-clam shells that were stripped and varnished

using Ostrich feathers and glass medical slides painted red.

(Voss summer 2001)