Giving a second life to fashion's deadstocks
At the Nona Source showroom in northern Paris, designers pick through luxurious textiles with ornate names: curly alpaca, geometrical macrame guipure, silk diamond cloque Jacquard. What makes them really exotic, however, is that they all come from "deadstocks" - the leftovers designers discard when they have finished with a roll of fabric. Until recently, it was common for deadstocks