Hugo’s Redress Design Award collection, ‘The Peri-Urbans’, explores the designer’s conflicting identities through the functionality and historical craftsmanship of workwear, alongside a cohabitation of masculinity and femininity. For the quilting, Hugo developed a glue-free wadding made from fibres shredded from textile waste, sorted by colour and composition to allow for recyclability. Designing for low waste, tops are handwoven from a cooperative’s surplus selvedges into a textured fabric. Zero-waste garments make use of defective stock made from linen, a material chosen for its minimal water consumption, local availability, harmlessness to soil, and recyclability.