Junk Kouture has publicly launched a crowdfunding campaign, with the goal of raising an additional €410,000 of seed equity to accelerate global growth and reach one billion teenagers worldwide.
The company challenges secondary students to create outfits made from waste and recycled material.
Over 1,000 schools in Ireland, the UK, USA, France, Italy and the UAE are already engaged with Junk Kouture with more joining the programme every week.
Junk Kouture has launched its crowdfunding campaign through the Seedrs crowdfunding platform.
It said crowdfunding gives its followers and environmentally conscious investors the chance to directly finance its global ambitions.
"Junk Kouture's goal is to reach one billion people in ten years worldwide," said Junk Kouture's founder Troy Armour.
"The recent meetings with companies leading the way in innovation and climate change in New York have only roused this goal and how achievable it is.
"But to do this, we need an additional runway and it makes sense to open up the extension of our seed funding to the public who share our goal and vision through crowdfunding," he added.
Recent seed funding of €860,000 and a successful crowdfunding campaign would bring Junk Kouture's total funding to date to €1.27m.
