ArtEco

This is how it all started…

Hello everyone, my name is Olimpia, I’m 17 and I’m attending the 12th year of high school in Florence Italy. I’ve always been a fashion lover, but must of all I’ve always been cared about climate. This is how my journey started: I asked myself ‘How can I make those both cohexist?’ That’s how ArtEco was born. Thank to the incentivation of Climate Leaders Fellowship I’ve developed this idea based on a councious clothing-production which strats from the production of yarns up to the shipping.

More about this project…

ArtEco aims for completely eco-sustainable production.
Let’s start by saying that our protagonist is bananas.
The raw material would be extracted simply by using waste materials that farmers would discard without reusing after cutting the plants.
This is where the fabric production begins: completely sustainable, artisanal, and without the use of combustion machinery. The few scraps of material not transformed into fiber would go to biomass harvesters, who are committed to transforming them into bioenergy.
Our artisans would be fairly paid, giving special attention to unemployed local people.
After the yarn production, there is the production of the fabrics (using lathes and manual spinning machines) and finally the dyeing (with sparing use and reuse of water without the use of harmful substances).
The clothing production is based on an on-demand system, so customers can order the garments they prefer, avoiding inventory waste. And finally the packaging and shipping of the package, also completely sustainable!!!

So…Did I convinced you???