A really close friend of mine, Marcus Richardson, is a wonderfully talented designer who is heading off to University of Arts London this year. He's put a couple of his designs up on Etsy, and they're lovely, and were all massively labor-intensive.

His most recent project is taking saris and re-purposing them into sun dresses, which he makes cut to measure, so the pieces are all completely unique, and a lot cheaper than the couture gems above. Check his stuff out!