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ReCoding your wardrobe

What is DressCode Shirts? DressCode Shirts makes high quality shirts for men and women. Our style is often described as GeekLuxe – tech inspired designs meets hand-crafted luxury tailoring. We were the first business to bring wearable technology into shirts with the CashCuff in 2019. We pioneered sustainable materials with the British Antarctic...

Fashion

Nike Re-Creation collections to launch in London and Paris

Nike announced the launches of new upcycled collections in the frame of its Re-Creation program for London and Paris this summer. For Re-Creation, discarded clothes are collected and re-created into a wearable condition, and then further redistributed, all on a local scale, combining creativity, innovation and the outlook onto a circular...

Fashion

Kane Footwear unveils new upcycling programming ‘Project Renew’

Active recovery brand Kane Footwear has unveiled a new upcycling initiative to turn shoes into yoga and changing mats. Kane Footwear has partnered with upcycled rubber goods manufacturer Lava Rubber to launch ‘Project Renew,’ which will allow customers to send back its Revive slip-on shoes to be shredded into flakes so they can be incorporated...

Business

Fashion and sustainability in March 2023

March witnessed some highlights in terms of the fashion industry's sustainability efforts: A study showed that social media is one of the most influential sources of sustainability information for consumers, while luxury brands Sonia Carrasco, MaisonCléo and Rabôt and young labels Vernisse, Quinta Maso, Fateeva and Re49 Shoes proved how...

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Levi’s celebrates 501’s 150th anniversary with denim mural by Ian Berry

What does an artist do who is at the top of their game? Simple, kick it up a notch. Or various ones. This is what Ian Berry did, British denim artist extraordinaire who creates painting-like artworks out of old jeans - minus the paint. In honour of the 150th anniversary of Levi’s cult jeans 501, Berry collaborated with the brand. The result is...

Fashion Featured

Labels to Watch: Upcycling

Upcycling has arrived at the heart of the fashion industry. Some of the most popular fashion labels in the industry are building their success on recycling leftover fabrics, textile waste, or other discarded materials. In this article, we present some young labels that have embraced the concept of upcycling successfully and beautifully. Vernisse...

Culture

Turkish artist Deniz Sağdıç creates stunning portraits out of textile waste

Turkish visual artist Deniz Sağdıç makes stunning portraits out of textile waste, among other things. From afar, they look like paintings, done in bold strokes and colours. When coming closer, the viewer is astounded to find that each portrait is made out of thousands of small objects, waste products like discarded zippers, buttons, old museum...

Fashion |REPORT Featured

Upcycled fashion for everyone, a possibility?

Upcycling is very much in demand and has its finger on the pulse of the times. More and more fashion labels are launching collections made from leftover and rejected fabrics. Other brands go one step further and use only old textiles which would otherwise have ended up in the bin for their entire product portfolio. Even in luxury fashion,...

Fashion

Football and upcycling: a young designer in France turns shirts into corsets

Paris - At 19, from her bedroom workshop in the Paris suburbs, she is giving old football shirts a second life by transforming them into corsets, a colourful, ethical and eco-friendly concept that has caught the eye of a Parisian fashion mogul in the run-up to the World Cup. "I do everything myself, from collecting the jerseys to designing and...

Business

Sustainability round-up October 2022

Much was happening in October in terms of sustainable efforts in the textile and apparel industry -- from regenerative cotton farming for denim and more sustainable materials to circular approaches. A new report revailed that the resale market tripled in just two years and an international sustainable design project brought together different...

Fashion |In Pictures

Rave Review unveils collection made out of scrapped car parts

Swedish upcycling fashion brand Rave Review, founded by design duo Josephine Bergqvist and Livia Schück, has collaborated with Czech car manufacturer Škoda on an exclusive clothing collection partly made from scrapped cars. Inspired by the great outdoors, Rave Review reused car seats, seat belts, and fabrics from vintage kilts and blankets to...

Business

Project TexCircle upcycles old textiles into new clothes and accessories

Together with spinning machine maker Rieter, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and partners from the public sector, brands and retailers, circular service specialist Texaid completed the Swiss textile recycling project “Texcircle”. The result is a range of product prototypes from sweaters, socks and curtains to carpets, upholstery...