TAIPEI — Inspiration for high fashion can come from strange places. For one Taiwanese designer, it’s upcycling old wires and bolts from the power industry.
Wang Li-ling, 36, scours dumps, picking up old bits of metal and wires from Taiwan’s main electricity supplier to add extra flair to her clothes.
“For example, there’s quite a lot of material from Taipower that they have phased out,” Wang told Reuters in her studio.
“These materials have been used for more than 20 or 30 years. At least more than 10 years. So their color or the mottled feeling they give you is different from new material.”
The wires and other materials are stitched onto dresses and other items of clot…
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