Unity, A Couture Ball Gown Made From Speedo’s Olympic Swimsuits

Unity

Since 2010, designers Orsola de Castro and Filippo Ricci of creative sustainable fashion brand From Somewhere have collaborated with Speedo to make a line of dresses out of their swimsuit fabrics. The ‘Unity’ one-off couture ball gown is a continuation of that project and it uses surplus fabric from Speedo’s Fastskin3 Super Elite Swimsuit. It uses off-cuts from the special edition Olympic game suits gathered from the Speedo-sponsored teams of the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Spain, Japan, Canada, Netherlands and Israel. It is “influenced by sunsets, sea and waves for a look that reflects the oceans which connect the competing nations at this summer’s global event.” Here’s a video where Orsola de Castro describes the project.

Unity

image via From Somewhere

Unity

images via Ecosalon

via Karen Solomon, Grist and EcoSalon

Rusty Blazenhoff
Rusty Blazenhoff