Fit For Purpose - Bianca Spender x Circular Sourcing

31.03.26

Fit For Purpose – Bianca Spender x Circular Sourcing

Our first Fit for Purpose interview features Australian designer Bianca Spender, exploring what it means to design with intention.

Bianca Spender is a design-led fashion house grounded in sculptural form, thoughtful construction and modern femininity, with a deep respect for materiality, craft and longevity.

For Bianca Spender, fabric acts as a collaborator. Material behaviour informs silhouette, movement, proportion and construction, with each garment shaped through an ongoing dialogue between designer and material.

Bianca shares how working with surplus and sustainable materials adds another layer of complexity to the design process, and why committing to that complexity is what makes the work worth doing.

Dive deeper into the process of working with surplus textiles, from sourcing through to design and garment longevity, in the full case study and interview.

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