26-06-2025
Watch: Teen creates designs from plants and organic waste
A teenager from Co Westmeath has been creating sustainable fashion designs made from organic waste and living plants.
17-year-old Clodagh Ramsay was named World Designer of the Year at the Junk Kouture world final with her innovative design made from 30kg of waste blue mussel shells. Clodagh says the design will later be ground down into a powder that can fertilise soil.
Clodagh says she likes to think of her design process as "borrowing from nature".
Another of her designs featured living plants that she watered and kept alive while the piece was being created and worn, and later re-planted them in her garden.
