Posts Tagged: recycled

Featured Kickstarter Project – Aehee

Kickstarter give you the opportunity to fund fledging creative concepts for the price of a premium cappuccino. Ahee by Juliane Park is a minimalist upcycled leather bag brand based in New York, and looking for your support.

Featured Collection – Greg Lauren

Greg Lauren’s men’s and women’s collections from completely upcycled materials for Spring Summer and Fall Winter 1016.

Worn Again

Dana Cohen is the name behind Worn Again, an innovative and design driven collection made from upcycled textiles.

Featured Book – ReDesign

Author Frau Jona & son takes you on a journey through your own closet, with the aim of identifying and redesigning those pieces that receive the least wear.

Featured Video – Nube9

Nube9 is an athletics wear company making athletic jerseys out a fabric produced from U.S.A.-sourced, post-consumer, recycled plastic water bottles.

Katie Jones

Katie Jones spends as much as eighty hours working on a single jacket, Jones pieces together upcycled leather and denim to produce labor intensive, highly crafted fantasies of color.

Featured Video – Michelle Baggerman

Michelle Baggerman’s graduation project Precious Waste showed how a humble material like plastic bags can be reimagined into a beautiful repurposed material resource instead.

Claire Wellesley-Smith

Claire Wellesley-Smith is a textile artist, educator and writer based in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

Featured Item – Bottletop Rucksack

This fabulous leather backpack from Bottletop hand made in Salvador, Brazil, made from traceable provenance leather and hand painted, upcycled aluminium ring pull tabs.

Featured Supplier – U-CLIFE

U-CLIFE is an upcycled material supplier and editor based in Normandy, France.

Featured Video – Ecoalf Recycled Tyres

Ecoalf’s flip-flops are made 100% from recycled tyres and without the use of glue.

Featured Video – Ecoalf Planet B

Fashion shouldn’t just be about looking good. At Ecoalf they are trying to do things differently by using only recycled materials.