Wearable Art Made from a Zorb Ball for the Australian Wearable Arts Festival

👑 Queen of the Ocean

Wearable Art Made from a Zorb Ball

One-of-a-kind. Fiercely reclaimed. Royal by design.

Our Queen of the Ocean is a show-stopping, upcycled garment made entirely from a punctured PVC Zorb ball, rescued from landfill and transformed into wearable sculptured garment. This piece is the next level from our bags and purses typically made from punctured inflatables! Hours have been spend to craft this garment. Each panel has been carefully cleaned, and shaped to create a bold, sculptural silhouette that honours the importance of our oceans—and the urgency to protect them.

But this isn’t just fashion. It’s a statement. 

🌊 Debuting at AWAF 2025

We’re proud to announce that our Queen of the Ocean garment will debut at the Australian Wearable Art Festival (AWAF) on the Sunshine Coast, 8–9 August 2025—a nationally and internationally celebrated platform for fashion, art, and environmental storytelling.

Come and see our some fabulous unique sculptured garment and experience this piece live on the runway, alongside incredible designs from across Australia.

🎟 Get tickets to AWAF 2025: https://www.australianwearableart.com.au/tickets

♻️ From Bounce to Beauty 

Originally designed for play, this Zorb ball had outlived its inflatable life. Instead of joining the growing tide of plastic waste, it found new purpose—meticulously sewn and structured into a high-impact piece of slow fashion. The creation started by separating the two Zorb ball halves, which was a challenging process, working from the inside out to not damage the PVC.  Next was removing all the individual ropes that held the inner ball in place. Removing the two big handles proved the biggest challenge without creating large gaping holes!

The natural transparency and texture of the PVC lend an otherworldly oceanic sheen, rippling with light and movement to the garment. Using its turquoise and blue coloured patterns, creating an image of ocean waves and by attaching coloured PVC reef shaped pieces to reflect the flotsam and debris being caught amongst coral plants.

Its not just the skirt of the garment, that catches the eye, as it floats around a large swim ring, it the puffed up sleeves with their inflatable shoulder pieces that give presence to our Queen and her statement of sustainability.

   

 

The headpiece completes this statement piece with its underwater world of coral, fish, netting and marine debris all sculptured from PVC, netting and plastic waste. 

🎨 Hand-Painted with Purpose

Swimming across the surface are soy-based hand-painted fish, each one a tribute to marine life under threat. Painted repurposed soy fishies are sewn onto the PVC skirt and onto the top, underneath discarded fish netting that was found on the beach. Fish caught in netting in a cry of desperation, no two fish are the same— the soy fishies are hand painted resembling our tropical fish seen on the Great Barrier Reef, like nature, this garment stands for wild, free, and unrepeatable.

🐟 Net Gains

Accented with reclaimed fishing netting, Queen of the Ocean nods to ghost nets and lost marine ecosystems. These delicate yet purposeful details bring texture, contrast, and conversation to the piece. They also ground it in its mission: to reframe waste as resource, and fashion as activism.

MATERIALS USED:

• Recycled PVC from punctured Zorb ball
• Hand-painted soy-fishies 
• Reclaimed fishing netting
• Threaded, sculpted, and sewn by hand in Queensland 

💬 Why It Matters

The Queen of the Ocean garment keeps kilos of soft PVC out of landfill. It weighs 25 kg. By turning broken inflatables into wearable art, we challenge fast fashion and single-use culture—redefining beauty in the age of climate crisis. 

This piece isn’t just to be worn. It’s not your everyday wear, its to be seen, felt, and talked about, sending a message to be remembered.

Care for the ocean. Wear the change. 

We hope to see you at the AWAF!

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