You wont believe what this dress is made from

Some seventeen years ago, Kylie and Sam Collins purchased a mango farm, sight unseen, in the idyllic setting of Far North Queensland. They called it ‘Blushing Acres’ and they deliver hundreds of thousands of Calypso mangoes to supermarket shelves, every year. 

But the grim reality of farming is the wastage created by the fruit rejected by quality assurance, discarded to the waste pile and left to rot.

The farming family’s daughter, Jessica had the idea to transform this waste into something beautiful – a ball gown made from 1400 seed husks. 

“When people see the dress, they’re always surprised it’s made from mango husks,” she says. “There are always thousands of kilos of mangoes that just go to waste and they just don’t make it off the farm. I’ve always wanted to solve that problem. In the future, maybe we could use the seeds instead of having to just throw them out. I would love to see mango seeds turned into a fibre, like cotton.”

Here’s what it took to make her creation.

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