By Muhammed İsmail Uçar Gen Z refers to those born between 1996 and 2010 — the first true digital natives who grew up surrounded by the internet. As children, they witnessed the devastating global effects of the 2008 financial crisis. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, disrupting all balances in education, social life, and employment. But…

By Muhammed İsmail Uçar In 2023, the mountains of discarded clothes in Chile’s Atacama Desert caused by the fast fashion industry left a lasting mark on our collective memory. There’s a common misconception that textile waste only refers to old or used clothes, but when we include unsold inventory and surplus production scraps, we uncover…

By Muhammed İsmail Uçar In my other blog post, Deadstock Is Drowning Fashion: The Ugly Truth Behind Sustainability, I explored how overproduction, ever-shifting trends, and poor planning create massive waste in fashion. The pieces that never make it to shelves don’t just disappear, they pile up. That’s exactly where upcycling steps in, turning what’s forgotten into something new,…