Designer Olivia Gino Creates Fuzzy Hat from Recycled Cigarette Butts
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Natasha Levy
Front-window bakery material. Catches the eye, delivers the goods.
Summary
Central Saint Martins graduate Olivia Gino has created a sustainable fashion innovation by transforming discarded cigarette butts into a fuzzy, shearling-style hat. Using cellulose acetate from cigarette filters, Gino collected butts from friends, recycling centers, and directly from the ground to create a textile that reimagines waste materials as valuable resources. The project addresses the environmental problem of cigarette litter while demonstrating creative upcycling in fashion design.
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Gino made the textile using cellulose acetate, the polymer that is used to produce the filters of cigarettes.
She got the butts themselves from friends who smoke, local recycling centres, or directly from the ground.
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