- Are you ready to model walk?
- Okay. - Okay, yeah.
(bouncy music) (shutter clicking)
(audience cheering, children laughing)
(gentle music)
Hi. (Melody clapping) - Hi, I'm Tiana.
What's your name? - My name's Melody.
- What's your name?
Do you know why we are here today?
- I don't know. - Fashion, maybe?
- Um hum. - Yeah?
- [Producer] Somebody who, what do you think?
- Maybe tries on clothes? - I do try on clothes,
but that's not quite it.
I'll give you a hint. I made this.
Take a guess.
Yeah. Yeah. (clapping)
I am a sustainable fashion designer.
You're really excited, huh?
(laughing) Yeah.
You want to be a designer too?
(Tiana clapping) Let's go.
What do you think sustainable fashion is?
- Things that you make yourself.
- That is true, I do like making things for myself.
But in terms of sustainable fashion, I basically make sure
that what I'm making isn't harming the earth more.
- Oh.
- So I take clothes that typically would be thrown away
and make them into something new and cool.
Do you know what fast fashion is?
- Is it like maybe where you'd wear something
for a short period of time and then throw it away?
- Yep. It's like very based on consumption.
- Yeah. - And so, like you
put something on, and you're like,
"oh, this is trendy."
Then the next trend comes and you're like, "ah, shoot."
Throw it away and. - I know, I know.
That happens so much in my school.
And it changes all the time.
It's really bad for the environment.
A lot of these are upcycled,
and so I took a lot of, like this hoodie and pants
and added things to it, to make it like extra cool.
(Tiana laughing) Yeah. I like that reaction.
Do you wanna try any of them on? You can take a closer look.
Yeah? (laughing) Okay.
- Oh, it's really pretty. - Yay.
So I used like. - Oh, it's so long.
- You know those fake flowers? - Fake flowers, yeah.
My mom has so many other.
- My mom too! - Her flowers keep on dying.
- Oh.
Oh. - I'm sorry.
I'm sure a lot of moms are like that, man.
- That one's really cool. - Yeah,
this was also upcycled.
It was a suit I made for this, my like,
school dance or whatever. - That's pretty cool.
- Do you ever make your own clothes?
(gentle whimsical music)
Was it for like a costume or a movie or?
Oh, wait. That's so cool.
So you make like the little mini ones?
- When did you start making the clothes and stuff?
- Six or seven years ago.
Wanted to make things that I hadn't seen before.
Things to represent my culture and my community.
And so now we're here.
- Oh, it's actually so cool.
(jacket rustling) - It's your size.
- I love it. It's cool. (audience oohing)
- Yay! (clapping)
It looks good on you.
- It's so cute. It's so fluff. - Is it warm?
- It's warm. - That's good, that's good.
- How do you wear this? (both laughing)
- Do you wanna try it on?
It's like a sports bra. You'd be like this.
- Oh. - Yeah.
- Not your style? - No.
- Yeah. That's okay.
So I brought a bunch of materials (taking big breath),
and we're gonna make our own outfits based on
what you have on today.
Are you excited? - Yes. (both laughing)
- So I have a bunch of scraps.
I try to bring in things that you can find
around your house, in like your everyday life.
- (exclaiming) Rice bag. - Rice bag.
- Yeah, I got like three packs at home, man.
- So we're gonna take what you're wearing, and make it
into the best party outfit
that you've ever seen, in your life.
We can add to it.
We could cut up your sleeves.
Yeah. (laughing), okay.
♪ Here comes with the bride, all dressed (laughing) ♪
- You like that one? - Yeah.
- All right. Let's use it then.
- I wanna put this like around my skirt and make it like a,
kind of like a veil, outside here.
- Ooh, I think that would look really good.
You have hobbies that you want to let people know
that you do, or something you're proud of?
- I like basketball. - You like basketball?
Me too. How about we make a basketball jersey outta this?
- Okay. - Okay.
Oh, right into it.
You're not afraid of cutting it, huh? (laughing)
Do you have any fashion icons?
- Gonna say Harry Styles is such a heart,
is such a fashion icon. - Yeah, what about his style
do you like? - It's really out there.
- My grandma, she like, knits and stuff, like sews.
- Um hum. - And I'm just like, huh!
I wanna sew too. - Yeah.
Yeah, I also learned a lot from my family.
You ever have like a rip, like pant hole?
- Yeah. - And I think that's where
I first started learning about sustainable fashion
because, just because something breaks doesn't mean
we need to throw it away, right?
We can always fix it. - Um hum.
- Are you like more of a defensive player, offensive player?
- Defense. - Yeah.
- Because I'm tall.
I get blocks. - You (chuckling) get blocks.
You block people?
- A lot. (gentle music continuing)
- Hey, you're already a natural.
- [Producer] We got, like 10 minutes on the outfit.
- Okay. Speed run. - Speed run.
- We're gonna speed run. - Speed run, speed run.
- Okay, lay it on the floor, lay it on the floor.
- Yeah. (child gasping) - Wait, no, not you.
The fabric. (both laughing)
Can you pull? (both straining)
Oh, that looks good.
Da da tada!
How you feeling about it? - I did my best.
- No one else in the world is gonna have these pants.
A limited edition.
Are you ready to model walk? (triumphant classical music)
- Okay. - Okay, yeah.
(crew cheering) (energetic techno music)
(bouncy music continuing)
(audience cheering, models laughing)
- [Producer] Have you heard of Da Vinci?
- Oh yeah. - Yeah?
What do you know about him? - He paints. (laughing)
- [Producer] It's an app that kids can use
with their families to learn, educate themselves
and find new ways to make their lives more sustainable,
and how to make our planet better.
- I really like animal on this one.
That one is really fun.
It's like about loads of animals, and they have like a zoo.
- Let's watch this one. - Ooh.
- (Tiana laughing) Wow.
Come on, mom. (classical music outro)