Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

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Ruwanthi Gajadeera is a Sri Lankan sustainable fashion and textile designer. She is the first South Asian fashion designer to win the Taiwan Fashion Design Awards at 2021 Taipei Fashion Week SS22. She has also represented Sri Lanka in a variety of other international competitions such as Redress Design Awards 2021, Hong Kong, International Baltic Ethnic Fashion Festival 2021, Saint Petersburg and Graduate Fashion Week 2021, London.

Through her designs, she attempts to communicate the importance of the slow fashion movement. She approached her aesthetic from the perspective by incorporating generational qualities of fashion and Buddhist philosophies. Ruwanthi's garments have showcased a combination of heritage crafts and high-tech techniques that express 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) in the complete garment lifecycle. She states that to create circular garments, she employs zero-waste, up-cycling, reconstruction techniques. 

Further information: https://berlinscienceweek.com/de/programme/sos-sea-change-0