Some Paddy Ervell to start it off:

i like that he puts the season and the name of the piece on the tag.

This is 100% cotton so i shall not be obeying this warning.
What methods did you use to destroy the reported 6000 garments from your fashion archives?
The pieces where put through a big shredder truck under my supervision.
Was there a particular part of the archives you most wanted to destroy, and why?
In 2009 and 2010, I donated a large volume of my body of work in fashion to the most important fashion, design and contemporary art collections worldwide. After a fire in the building where our studio in New York is located, which could have destroyed the rest of the archive, and after going for months through the pieces to see in which condition they are, I slowly became intrigued by the idea of destroying it myself and using it as raw material for my art. I shredded all the pieces without remorse or preference. It was about erasing the difference of what they once stood for.
in the introduction to her book Fashion, Charlotte Seeling wrote:Fashion as such did not become a fashionable concept until relatively recently : It was not until 1860 or thereabouts that Charles Frederick Worth, an English designer working in Paris, had the brilliant idea of attaching labels bearing his signature to any gowns he designed, just as if they were works of art. From then on, ladies of quality would only wear garments designed by a well-known couturier—these were classed as fashion,anything else was mere clothing.
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