Entry: Free
This is probably the smallest exhibition I've ever visited. It contains just ten pieces and you can see nine of them on the Science Museum website (the missing one is Berber Soepboer's modular skirt*).
The exhibition isn't really about making fashion from trash, though that is a part of it. It's really about all the guises environmentally conscious fashion can take – recycled materials, biodegradable materials, and less wasteful and less polluting manufacturing techniques. It's interesting and, importantly, the clothes look wearable, which makes the techniques and materials being showcased seem more viable, but it's so small that it's pretty underwhelming.
There is slightly more in the form of a Flickr group that accompanies the exhibition, and which invites members of the public to submit images of their refashioned** clothing, but I feel like it's stuff that I've been seeing online for years. (And for every good piece, there's three that still look too obviously like the original garment.)
If you're going to the Science Museum anyway then it's certainly worth checking out, but it's probably not worth visiting just for this exhibition.
*I'd rather have Soepboer's colour-in dress though.
**Well, I guess it's a better term than upcycled.
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