Building a Dye Library for Sustainable Fashion

Yu Shen

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MA Innovative Fashion Production graduate at London College of Fashion, with a focus on sustainable textile systems, dye research and practice-based design research. My work explores how material experimentation, documentation and visual frameworks can support more responsible and informed design decisions. I am particularly interested in developing tools and systems that translate complex material and sustainability information into accessible formats for designers and practitioners. My practice combines hands-on experimentation with research-led analysis, bridging design, production and sustainability.

MA Innovative Fashion Production graduate at London College of Fashion, with a focus on sustainab...

This project explores the development of a dye library as a practical and research-based tool to support sustainable fashion design. Through material experimentation, documentation and visual systems, the project investigates how different dye sources and methods can be evaluated and communicated to designers. The project combines practice-based research with visual analysis and proposes a traffic-light style recommendation system to support more informed and sustainable material choices.

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Building a Dye Library for Sustainable Fashion

This project explores the development of a dye library as a practical and research-based tool to support sustainable fashion design. Through material experimentation, documentation and visual systems, the project investigates how different dye sources and methods can be evaluated...

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