Design thinking – empathize stage for sustainable fashion idea

We are a group of 5 students and will apply the design thinking process to a sustainable fashion project.

The project idea is to collect old/unwanted clothes or fabric from dedicated containers to redesign them into new clothes. 

Please check the process here.

 My part is the first one, EMPATHY. 

 Requirements: 

 1. A short introduction to sustainable fashion (definition of what it is?) Use recent references

 2. The observation about the topic and talk about Upcycle fashion and fabric waste./ You shoule also mention the impact of unlegal/ non ethical fashion 

 3. The impact of sustainable fashion with a link to SDG and 2030 vision https://www.my.gov.sa/wps/portal/snp/content/SDGPortal/!ut/p/z1/jZDLboJQEIafxQVbZqZcit0dizdCRUQtPZsGzfGoAQ4BlD5-ia5IvM1uJt83-WeAQww8T84HmdQHlSdp2_9w-3dGQ5yQScE4ckYY2r6xcCkk7BN8dwE031rAddnMWpJHaxv4K743d0xiSEFgWAMMP7_eAxatCdF6zcc7xfCZH4m83cG72I0rLsCjmBfgQQ4PuEzV5vpTlm8MRwIvxU6UotRPZTve13VRfWioYdM0ulRKpkLfqkzDW8peVTXEXRKKbLWK_6ZHKz37jPV6_7iNFco!/dz/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/  The SDGs for this project are (4,9, 11, 12) 

4. Add content and data about sustainable fashion in Saudi Arabia

 5. Add data/stat about sustainable fashion ( you can use this https://www.fashionrevolution.org/resources/consumer-survey/ ) 

6. Talk about the potential personas of the business like 1. (the customer will buy, 2. second people will give us the unwanted clothes, 3. third, the company will offer jobs for designers to design clothes) – please talk about challenges from persona point of view

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