LABA + Manteco Academy's 2024 MANTECO SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

The “RE-HOME” by + in - and “Progetto Surgery” by KCEBRON STUDIO won the LABA + Manteco Academy's 2024 MANTECO SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

Since 2021, we have established the “Manteco Sustainability Award”. It is a fashion contest for all those students who want to test their eco-design skills. Each student, or group or students, must present a capsule collection project and explain the reasons why it is in line with this design philosophy. Manteco® evaluates all the projects by considering the following points: choice of raw materials, design and look. All of this by giving most importance to the recyclability and subsequent impact of the presented collection.

Learn more about the “RE-HOME” project, by + in -, including Emma Colombera, Francesca Ianni, Beatrice Montalto and Arianna Zocca

The name ‘All in Less’ embodies the total commitment to one goal: the union of eco-design and outwear. Today this is increasingly important as the production of sportswear is increasingly polluting. The group’s challenge is the union of natural fibers to sportswear, spheres that may seem distant from each other but if joined can be a resource. Starting from wool and its many properties, they aim to offer comfort, practicality but also a sense of home, even in situations that are difficult.

This project stems from the desire to feel at home away from it, inspired by the military’s adaptability in extreme conditions. The emphasis is on self-sufficiency and the creation of useful and versatile clothing that can accommodate memories and meet practical needs. The garments, designed to suit different occasions, are made from Manteco wools and offer comfort and functionality, becoming ‘containers’ of meaning and utility.

Learn more about the “Progetto Surgery” by KCEBRON STUDIO, including BERTI AMANDA, COLUCCI JACOPO and FRANCHI GIOVANNI

From the ideology of wanting to break the concept that we have today of ecology was born, KCEBRON STUDIO, an anagram ofBROKEN ECO STUDIO, a company that transforms fastfashion into eco-sustainable by making it everyday life for eachisingolo individual. As the students have it: “Nowadays we are offered a fast fashion market, which consists in producing collections inspired by high fashion, but put on sale at low prices and renewed in a very short time. This has a strong negative impact on the environment, and it is difficult to change people’s consumption habits in a short time; we do not want to oppose this mechanism, but to make it eco-sustainable. For these reasons, our project consists of making garments joined by a tensile thread from resorbablepolydioxanone sutures using natural enzymes”. At the end of the product’s life cycle of 3 months maximum, instead of becoming textile waste it is immersed in tanks of natural proteolytic enzymes, where the thread through a hydrolysis mechanism is broken down. Through this process the various separate pieces of the garment are obtained, thus allowing the birth of a new product, different in its intended use or color combination.Since the garments are waterproofed, they do not require further washing once the pieces have been broken down.These steps can then be repeated several more times to always come up with new things.

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