UPCYCLING: The environmentally focused process of transforming waste materials into new articles with artistic and functional value.
Dirty Girls infuses fabric waste, from used life jackets and from the *entertainment industry, with new life; reintegrating waste into our social lives.
*One Small Bags have functional and aesthetic use as well as acting as a display of solidarity for refugees and an active concern for environmental issues.
Emphasis is placed on the creativity and uniqueness of each bag.
Your bag will be one of a kind.
Carrying One Small Bag demonstrates and opens conversations about support for people who have become refugees.
*Entertainment industry – fabric which is surplus after making costumes for TV and film productions.
* One Small Bag – so called because when people flee their homes and their country, they can only take what fits in one small bag.
Bags are sewn with thread recyled from plastic bottles.