Denim Reborn
Old jeans are given a new lease of life as a jacket, pieced together from various pieces of denim and offcuts. Even the parts that would normally be discarded are incorporated into the patchwork. The piece demonstrates how textile offcuts can be given new value and a new purpose within ReMake.
Denim Reborn is a unique upcycled jacket by Tetiana Polishchuk, made from various scraps of denim. For this project, she mainly used the tops of old pairs of jeans. In previous projects, she had worked primarily with the trouser legs, leaving her with a lot of tops to spare. It was from these collected scraps that the idea of creating a new jacket emerged. In her work, Tetiana tries to throw away as little fabric as possible and to reuse even the smallest pieces. She finds it remarkable that it is often from small scraps that the most interesting and unexpected designs can emerge. From the pattern to the finished garment, Tetiana designed and made the jacket entirely by herself. She assembled the various denim pieces as a patchwork, leaving the different colours, textures and seams visible. Hand-stitched decorative stitches form an important part of her work. She uses them not only as decoration, but also to join the different pieces together. For Tetiana, the stitches are like lines that bring all the separate parts together to form a single whole. Through ‘Denim Reborn’, Tetiana aims to show that textile scraps do not have to be waste. By looking at existing materials in a different way, even small scraps can be transformed into a valuable and unique garment.
Translated from Dutch