At Basto, we transform industrial excess into one of a kind, hand crafted clothing. Every design is crafted as one off/limited edition. It is luxury with intention: individual, artisan made, planet-conscious. We believe true luxury is knowing your piece is uniquely yours and kinder to the world we share.
Katherine Soucie, PhD, is a British-Canadian artist, designer whose work centres on creative reuse, remanufacturing, and mending. With over 25+ years of experience upcycling, her award winning studio/brand, Sans Soucie, works across textiles, fashion, and visual art, developing multidisciplinary approaches that transform textile industry waste into new materials and applications.
POST—MATTER is a multidisciplinary design studio by Adele Zavagno. She is a designer based between Italy and the Netherlands who works with local and discarded materials merging the worlds of textiles and biodesign.
Practicing mender studying repair economies and place-based practices that keep clothes in use. With a background as a clothing designer, Donna researches fashion's overlooked side through practice, treating repair as a critical part of circular design and bringing it to the forefront at design inception rather than at the end of a product's
i am an artist based in vienna, predominantly working in the fields of textiles, photography, and illustration. i love experimenting with different materials and trying out new things - whilst my ideals of feminism, anti-capitalism and environmentalism are always leading principles in my artwork. i'd love to hear from you via e-mail or instagram dm!