Posts Tagged: vintage fabrics

Isabell de Hillerin

German designer Isabell de Hillerin develops her sustainable collection from a combination of delicate fabrics and folkloric handmade Romanian materials, to communicate a creative position somewhere between new design and old tradition.

Silent People

Italian label, Silent People make a beautiful and creative collection of mostly bags from a diverse range of vintage and recycled materials, putting an entirely new twist on heritage.

Goodone

Award wining fashion label Goodone designs a contemporary fashion collection made entirely from off cuts and excess fabric.

Ichiroya Kimono Flea Market

In the light of the Japanese disaster, I thought it appropriate to feature the work of a Japanese company. One thing we are able to do is to invest in the Japanese economy and in Japanese businesses, which will help play a vital, if small role in their recovery.

Ampersand as Apostrophe

A native of Detroit, now a Seattle-based designer, Jessica Park made her first handbag out of sheer captivation of an “as-chance-would-have-it” discovery at a local Seattle flea market, of vintage British mailman delivery sacks.

AOI

Tatsuki Takino founded AOI in 2005. Using only the kimono as raw material, AOI developed into a full women’s collection of day to eveningwear. Drawing from his own origins in Japan, he brings new life to vintage kimonos.

Burning Torch

The Burning Torch collection was created in 1999, and built on the tangible embodiment of Karyn Craven’s personal philosophy of freedom and transformation.

Gibbous Fashions

Gibbous creates one of a kind creative men’s and women’s wear from a myriad of vintage sources, working with discarded, forgotten, shredded and stained pieces of history form the recent past, through to Victorian times.