ÉCAL graduate Tuo Lei has created a fashion collection from abandoned festival tents, based on simplified patterns that can be replicated at home with just basic sewing skills and the accompanying instructions.
The P+365 project turns the tents collected from a given festival into a series of raincoats, caps, bags and bucket hats, with the aim of selling them at the same event the following year.
Alongside this, an illustrated, step-by-step manual complete with sewing patterns also allows people to take matters into their own hands.

"I've always been attracted to the details and materials of camping equipment," Lei told Dezeen.
"So I saw the potential to turn these discarded tents into garments that have the functional benefit of being waterproof while still being fashionable."
Beyond raising awareness of the issue of waste, the collection also gives revellers a more meaningful alternative to regular merchandise to take home with them.
"The tag on all P+365 products says the name of the festival it was collected from and contains information about the idea behind the collection," explained the designer.
"This makes it a sort of collectable memento. The item directly reminds the user of its backstory while also giving the people who created the problem a way to invest in its solution."

The leftover tents themselves are sourced from local environmental charities which collect them once the camping sites have been abandoned. From th...