Upcycling Unsold Items

Unsold Garments Upcycling Project – Peonies

As part of our school program, we worked on an upcycling project for the concept store Peonies, a boutique that carries several different brands.

Our mission was to propose a reproducible process, enabling the store manager, together with a designer, to upcycle multiple unsold garments.

We chose to fully deconstruct the garments to recover as much material as possible.

From this recovered material, we designed a modular vest made up of flower-shaped elements inspired by peonies, the store’s emblem.

Using only three garments, we were able to create a vest entirely composed of embroidered flowers, giving unsold items a new life while staying true to Peonies’ identity.