RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- An exhibit titled 'Uncovering Fashion' features Richmond designers shedding light on textile waste, which includes any fabric or clothing that gets thrown away rather than recycled or reused.

For Kimberly Guthrie, chair of Virginia Commonwealth University's (VCU) Fashion Design and Merchandising, so much thought goes into the clothes she buys.

“I love fashion so much and I just have seen it change so much over the years as a consumer of fashion and as an educator of fashion," Guthrie said. "And I’ve seen that its value has kind of died.... Uncovering Fashion is a way to talk about that there’s so much more that happens behind just the clothes that we just take off a rack and take off a hanger and put on every day.”

Guthrie said the pieces are an "evolution of an

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