For founder Kaya Dorey, winner of UN Setting’s Youthful Champion of the Earth award in 2017, the aim is to create a zero-waste, closed-loop pattern model. In New York, Queen of Raw connects designers, architects and textile companies with ineffective inventory of sustainable supplies from factories, producers and retailers. Queen of Raw says larger than US$120 billion price of unused supplies sits in warehouses, in a position to be burned or buried.
In some circumstances, a self-employed dressmaker might need a garments line that bears his or her title. Costume designers design costumes for the performing arts and for movement…