Genette Dibsdall Makes Luxury Garments From Discarded Festival Tents
Horrified by the abandoned tents left after a music festival, Genette Dibsdall conceived The Maverick ? a transformable luxury garment made from the waste tents.
Horrified by the abandoned tents left after UK music festival Boardmasters in 2018, Genette Dibsdall conceived The Maverick ? a transformable luxury garment that can be variously used as a cape, a nap sack, and a tree tent ? made from the waste tents and named after the campsite in which she found them.
Tell me a little bit about your childhood, education, and background in terms of how you first became interested in creativity, design, and sustainability.
My maternal DNA link to the Reebok founder Joe Foster has played a leading influence in my choice to study craft and design throughout my career. I focused on fashion and textiles design through school, college, and university. In 2008 I was awarded a first class honors degree from Liverpool John Moores University. On graduating, my first apparel and accessories design role was with a global fashion brand where I quickly found that my dreamy university experience didn’t set me up for industry employment! The process for mass fashion design and production was linear, restrictive, and repetitive with a focus on bestsellers, minimum order quantities, and product costs. I missed being creative and learning ? and I also became aware of harmful dyes, material sourcing methods, discarded waste, and the mass burning of samples. The role didn’t align...
Horrified by the abandoned tents left after UK music festival Boardmasters in 2018, Genette Dibsdall conceived The Maverick ? a transformable luxury garment that can be variously used as a cape, a nap sack, and a tree tent ? made from the waste tents and named after the campsite in which she found them.
Tell me a little bit about your childhood, education, and background in terms of how you first became interested in creativity, design, and sustainability.
My maternal DNA link to the Reebok founder Joe Foster has played a leading influence in my choice to study craft and design throughout my career. I focused on fashion and textiles design through school, college, and university. In 2008 I was awarded a first class honors degree from Liverpool John Moores University. On graduating, my first apparel and accessories design role was with a global fashion brand where I quickly found that my dreamy university experience didn’t set me up for industry employment! The process for mass fashion design and production was linear, restrictive, and repetitive with a focus on bestsellers, minimum order quantities, and product costs. I missed being creative and learning ? and I also became aware of harmful dyes, material sourcing methods, discarded waste, and the mass burning of samples. The role didn’t align...
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