As crisis awareness regarding environmental pollution and resource depletion is magnified, environmental problems due to various industrial wastes and wastes easily thrown away in our daily lives are being caused. These environmental problems became the essential practice subject to be resolved by the society. As awareness regarding the environment increases, wastes are recognized as resources that are in the process of circulation rather than an object of simple disposal and researches on recycling are carried out actively in various fields. Not only are the fashion industry manufacturing diverse harmful environmental substances by industrial steps due to the nature of trend but also wastes thrown away before use account for significant quantity. This research focused on the design methods and expressive techniques for the development of fashion design that increase the effective utilization of resources by studying up-cycling which is socially and environmentally on the rise. First of all, to exactly identify what an upcycle is, the concepts, types and features of upcycle, and cases of up-cycling fashion design were examined as the background of the advent of up-cycling. As an upcycle method of clothing structure, it was focused on disassembly and recombination. For the expressive technique of design, the study borrowed ‘Canvas Stitching’ and investigated definition of the technique, stitch types and features, cases of designs utilizing canvas stitching and the intention was to express artistic aesthetic applying the technique. This research emphasized the importance of methodological classification into formative and aesthetic elements regarding how to maximize utilization of upcycle, limiting to stocked clothing and discarded textiles. Therefore, it is deemed that the implication of original designs and new techniques can promote practical circular value system which is emerging recently. The significance of this research lies in the implication that experimental research from various perspectives regarding the expressive technique of design can be a useful strategy in terms of upcycle fashion design.