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Sia Seth

Basto

Mumbai, India

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.

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Lauren Davies

Iron Keld

Kendal, England, UK

I upcycle retired outdoor fabrics into useful products and textile art. I also teach sewing workshops and provide a specialist outdoor gear repair service

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Katherine Soucie

Sans Soucie

London, United Kingdom

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.

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Jaunice Thompson

ThreadsReclaimed

Rocklin, USA

Jaunice is the creator, fiber artist, and designer behind ThreadsReclaimed, Specializing in wearable art, transforming rescued denim and secondhand garments by fusing them with storied textiles—including heirloom lace, damaged 2nd hand and Vintage quilts, embroidered linens, thrifted garments and deadstock remnants. Her one-of-a-kind patchwork creations breathe new life into forgotten materials.

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Ayisha Gaffoor

UpswingSA

Cape Town, South

We are a non-profit organization and we sell donated goods to raise funds for our organization. We focus on skills development through upcycling projects. Our organization is funded by the sales from our thrift store.

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Adele Zavagno

POST—MATTER

Enschede, Netherlands

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.

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Donna Maione

Cornwall-on-Hudson, United States

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

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Lorna Minter

Latham Street

Southend-on-Sea, UK

REUSED | REMADE | RELOVED Vintage Fashion♻️ Reworked Streetwear Specialists🇬🇧PopUps•Wholesalers•Sustainable Fashion Ravers🪩✨ Est.06•Good Vibes Only✌️

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kugelfaengerin

Vienna, Austria

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!

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Ioana Topala

Traista si Papusoi

București, Romania

Accessories and clothes made from second-hand treasures, deadstock materials and old clothes. Guiding people to sew, mend their clothes and to avoid filling landfills with their old textiles.

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