Traditional and vintage originals with a unique twist. Take a traditional vintage 5 pocket shape and deconstruct it by clipping and picking threads and seams. Make texture where there was none.
Faustine Steinmetz (Left and Centre images) ENDRIME
Create classic truckers and original jeans out of handmade indigo fabrics. Not to call them denims as the result is hardly a 3x1 twill any longer. Open weaves distort what was once a classic jean.
Upcycle your favourite classics of jackets/jeans/skirts and shirts. Use decoration alongside destruction and reconstruction Make a feature of overwear, re-use rather than throw away.
Images from 'Worn Vol.1'
Take time to make new originality from vintage pieces or with vintage inspiration.
We recognise the items but make differences by hand. Make them yours for ever. Change their persona over time revolutionising recognisable items, making them worthy of the 21st century.
Recycled cotton fibres // Levi's X Evrnu, Faustine Stienmetz Recycled Tag
The result could be totally sustainable OR your own total performance. Use performance touches, finishes and textiles to create a handmade article that performs to your needs. Create it all by hand, that is the new modern way forwards for our clothing.
Blue Patchwork Jeans by Blackmeans
Take time to enjoy the process of practicality, repair, change, recycle, upcycle to more enjoy the results.