Show Two: Maison/0 Green Trail winners announcement

From across Show Two: Design, the best of sustainable innovation is celebrated with the Maison/0 Green Trail Awards.

The Maison/0 Green Trail shares the best sustainable projects from fashion to material innovation and this year over 60 graduating students were nominated. From that expansive list, the jury had the difficult decision of selecting five students to share the £5,000 final prize.

The trail's jury included Alexander Capelli, Mazarine Yeremian and Clara Gomez from the LVMH environment team alongside fashion journalist Tamsin Blanchard, MA Biodesign course leader Nancy Diniz and CSM Dean of Academic Programmes Rachel Dickson.

Many congratulations to:

Benjamin Benmoyal, BA Fashion: Fashion Design with Marketing

Elissa Brunato, MA Material Futures

Chekii Harling, BA Fashion Communication: Journalism

Olivia Page, M ARCH Architecture

Nathalie Spencer, MA Material Futures

And five commended graduates:

Graysha Assoun, BA Textile Design

Cecily Cracroft-Eley, BA Fashion Design Knitwear

Gabriel De Noray, MA Industrial Design

Jessica Duggan, BA Graphic Communication Design

Penny Hartley, MA Graphic Communication Design

Maison/0 is an incubator of sustainable intelligence designed to provoke practices and challenge our collective futures. Set up as part of the CSM LVMH partnership launched in May 2017, Maison/0 provides a platform to develop innovative sustainable projects across Central Saint Martins and LVMH.

Bio Iridescent Sequin – Elissa Brunato

"Within the current fashion and textiles system, the embroidery industry is limited by unsustainable material options and a lack of innovation. Shimmering beads and sequins are industrially made from petroleum plastic or synthetic resins. Their use and disposal impose a huge environmental problem and contribute largely to the micro-plastic issue that planet Earth is currently facing.

Bio Iridescent Sequin finds an answer in the research of bio-technologies that are capable of harnessing naturally abundant materials, to create shimmering structural colours. By extracting the crystalline form of cellulose, the wood-originating matter can imitate the alluring visual aesthetics of beetle wings. The material remains lightweight and as strong as plastic, yet it is compostable."

TRASHMag – Chekii Harling

"TRASHMag highlights that there are alternatives to both fast fashion and throwaway luxury, championing designers and artists who work with recycled materials or those that come from nature itself.

The aim of the project was to reinvent the language used when writing about sustainable fashion and environmental issues. TRASHMag utilises humour to bring important issues to people's attention, a tone of voice that was absent from this space."

Re-distributing and Re-sourcing the Production of Construction Materials – Olivia Page

"Our continued unsustainable production of materials will lead to the destruction of the planet. This project responds to these climatic challenges with hope and creativity by making and experimenting with biological waste, abundant and invasive plants. By being more innovative with construction material we can decrease landfill waste, increase biodiversity, celebrate degradability, support local businesses and depend less on non-renewable materials and fossil fuels.

Looking specifically at the area of northern Portugal, I have formed a recipe guidebook to the are of the wastes and materials that create decomposable, low-cost materials. Working with multi-disciplinary teams, such as scientists, engineers, designers and makers we can change the way we product materials in the development towards a more equal and sustainable future."