# Upcycled Clothing Chairs Anna Herrmann Uses Old Clothes to Make Sustainable Furniture By Gurveer Brah | Published 2015-08-17 | Eco Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/sustainable-furniture References: [design-milk](http://design-milk.com/chair-made-recycled-tights/) & [herrmann-anna](http://www.herrmann-anna.com/50-den) Everyone has old clothes they don't use or wear and one student took it upon herself to find a use for unworn clothing and create sustainable furniture from them. Anna Herrmann is a product design student who wanted to find a sustainable way to take her old clothes and transform them into long-lasting products that people could use and enjoy for a long time. She created '50 DENS,' a project creating a new product with ordinary objects, taking their traits and seeing them in a different, more useable context. Anna took her [old tights](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/knit-one) (which can't be resold and lack any sentimental value) and created sustainable furniture in the form of a chair. Creating value from old material, she wove the material into a seat and back support for the chair, making use of a previously [disposable commodity](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/wu-series). ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 5.6/10 - Popularity: 74% | Activity: 85% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 30% men, 70% women - Primary generations: Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: Europe, Asia ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Eco](https://www.trendhunter.com/eco) ## Key Themes ### What's Driving This Trend - **Upcycling Fashion:** Creating sustainable furniture and products from old clothing. - **Sustainable Design:** Transforming ordinary objects into long-lasting products that people can use and enjoy for a long time. - **Circular Economy:** Creating value from old material and reducing waste by repurposing it into new products. ### Who This Affects Most - **Furniture Manufacturing:** Using upcycling and sustainable design techniques to create unique and eco-friendly furniture products. - **Fashion and Apparel:** Exploring opportunities to transform old material into new fashion and apparel items through upcycling and circular economy models. - **Product Design:** Incorporating upcycling and circular economy models into product design processes to create sustainable and innovative products. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Nylon Tights-Transformed Tables](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/tights-to-tables.md) - [Waste-Incorporated Chair Designs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/knoll-chairs.md) - [Recycled Dynamic Seating](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bultan-chair.md) - [Creative Laundry Solutions](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/rewear-chair.md) - [Sustainably Minded Seating Solutions](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/conscious-chair.md) - [Textured Recycled Plastic Chairs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fiber-chair-family.md) - [Waste-Based Furniture Capsules](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ecofriendly-furniture1.md) - [Abandoned Bikes-Turned Art](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/objects-from-frames.md) - [Innovative Waste-Reducing Chairs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/annabella-hevesi.md)