London, UK

Silvia Acien is the founder and creative director of ACIEN, a regenerative knitwear brand.

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Silvia Acién is the founder and creative director of ACIEN, a regenerative knitwear brand dedicated to using organically certified fibres such as Himalayan nettle, pineapple yarn, lotus flower, regenerative merino wool, and other innovative materials.

ACIEN emphasises natural dyeing processes, utilising invasive plants, bacteria, and natural dyes to enrich the fibres with nutrients, ensuring they biodegrade effectively and return nutrients to the earth. The brand also incorporates ancestral techniques from Silvia’s grandmother, empathising with female genealogy and the importance of preserving folkloric techniques, creating a bridge between farming, science, and fashion, and connecting the past and future in the present.

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London, UK

Tanveer Ahmed is an Anti-Racist Educator, Researcher and Trash Club Advisory Board Member.

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I am a Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Race at Central Saint Martins working across the fashion programme to support decolonial fashion perspectives.

My research emerges from experiences of teaching fashion design over the last twenty years and recognising the urgent need to explore alternative non-extractive, anti-racist and social justice-oriented forms of fashion design pedagogies. This approach emphasizes a more situated, relational and contextualized fashion design praxis by centring plural, non-heteropatriarchal, noncapitalist forms of fashion inspired by pre-colonial concepts of fashion that respect our planet and multi species.

My AHRC funded PhD titled 'Pluriversal Fashions: Towards an Anti-Racist Fashion Design Pedagogy' investigated how white normativity works to exclude non Eurocentric fashion design epistemologies in fashion design pedagogies and used new decolonial feminist pedagogical frameworks to counter dominant dualist definitions of fashion design.

I am currently working on a monograph 'Fashion and Anti-Racism' (Bloomsbury forthcoming).

Member Since: 2023

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London, UK

Rosette Ale is the driving force behind Revival London, a slow fashion brand centred on sustainability, textile innovation and creative self-expression.

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Rosette Ale is the driving force behind Revival London, a slow fashion brand centred on sustainability, textile innovation and creative self-expression. As a full-time fashion redesigner, a job title she has coined, Rosette specialises in transforming discarded textiles into bold, contemporary pieces that don’t harm the planet or people. Her ethos revolves around repurposing and upcycling in order to reduce fashion’s impact on the planet. Motivated by the urgency of the climate crisis, Rosette is deeply committed to raising awareness through her social media, sharing style inspiration on secondhand clothing, sewing tutorials and eco-friendly lifestyle alternatives to inspire others. Through educational content, tutorials and upcycling workshops, she aims to spark a movement towards a more sustainable and circular future.

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Boston, USA

Kayla Antonevich is the Slow Fashion Designer behind Ø mph and Hub Host of Trash Club Boston.

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After constantly being told “that’s not how the industry works” while Trash Cdesigning garments out of discarded materials, she became obsessed with proving that it can. Kayla hopes to inspire people to embrace their unique qualities and never be afraid to do things differently.

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London, UK

Paul Ayre is an Art Director, Director, Author, Lecturer and Founder of 14:59 Studio.

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With an extensive career spanning over 25 years, he has worked for some of television’s most respected brands, including; Art Director for the children’s channel Nickelodeon UK and the Head of Graphics for MTV Europe.

He has produced work for clients including Channel 4, Viacom, Sony Music, The Natural History Museum, Disney, Southbank Centre, Discovery/Dmax Germany, Food Network, NBC Universal, The Africa Channel, Accenture, CBS/Drama CBS, London School of Economics, Channel 5, TK Maxx, Russell Athletic, The Watch-Men Agency, D&AD, and Nike.

For the last 15 years Paul has run ‘14:59’; a multi-disciplinary studio working across the different communication areas of broadcast, moving image, advertising, branding, fashion and art.

Paul was a co-author, and designer of the book “Sneakers-Size isn’t Everything“, by Booth Clibborn Editions, first published in 2002. This was the first publication to examine “Sneaker Culture” and its worldwide impact and far reaching influence, which permeates almost every aspect of popular culture, all which happened to coincide the infancy of the internet.

Ayre's art direction has been recognised, and awarded internationally including at Tokyo Animation Festival, BDA, World & European Promax, New York Art Directors, D&AD and BAFTA.

As a visiting lecturer, he has worked with students at London College of Communication, Central St Martins, London College of Fashion and is a member of Ravensbourne University London’s Design Faculty Advisory Group.

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New Delhi, India

Akshit Bangar is the Founder + Creative Director of fashion brand, Urban Darzi.

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Having worked in the fashion industry for 8 years on either side of the sustainability spectrum, Akshit is now striving to change people’s relationship with clothes and the perception of all things considered as waste with his upcycling label Urban Darzi.

Urban Darzi is building an alternative lifestyle experience for its customers, where everything is initially made from waste, and is put back into the ecosystem after first use, extending the product life cycle aiding to a circular economy driven business model.

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Kent, UK

Rukia Begum is a textile designer and teacher specialising in print and weaving.

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London, UK

Nataliya Belova is a Graphic Design Communication Student at Central Saint Martins.

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Nataliya Belova is a multidisciplinary graphic designer interested in pop culture, editorial design, and technology. She is also one half of Seize Magazine.

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Paris, France

Shikhar is a design researcher in emerging technologies, combining traditional skills with digital innovation.

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Shikhar is a design researcher in emerging technologies, combining traditional skills with digital innovation. With a background in craft-based product design, he has explored materials like wood, metal, and stone. His passion lies in merging designer instincts with local knowledge, evident in his collection of flea-market artefacts and his collaborations with different craftspeople. His approach involves gathering and juxtaposing elements, favouring a hands-on, collage-like method. Passionate about nature and life-centred design, Shikhar invites you to explore his work in various mediums and engage in meaningful design dialogues. He is also an advocate of Pluriversality in Design.

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London, UK

Louisa Bilton, is an Engineer and Textile Sustainability + Innovation Consultant.

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Textile R+D, textile + fibre manufacturing, process engineering, biodegradability, polymer science, digital + phygital fashion, artificial intelligence for luxury fashion, report + grant writing, data interrogation + analysis, LCA + product footprinting.

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London, UK

Emma Blythe is an American Designer currently researching menswear with a feminist gaze.

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As a female designer of menswear, it is impossible for Emma to design without responding to current conversations surrounding gender politics and identity. 

Her work is rooted within her own experiences with gender inequality and expression.

As a deeply nostalgic individual, Emma Blythe looks for ways to repurpose materials she finds expressive, and subverts their original purpose in order to re-imagine a better future with items from a recognisable past.

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London, UK

Lydia Bolton is a slow fashion designer whose work is centred around reusing and giving value to the materials we already have in existence to creatively tackle textile waste.

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Lydia Bolton is a slow fashion designer whose work is centred around reusing and giving value to the materials we already have in existence to creatively tackle textile waste.

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London, UK

Jude Braganza is an MA Fashion student at Central Saint Martins.

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Currently pursuing my master's at CSM in MA Fashion, I am a Graduate of Mod'art International, having worked with numerous independent brands. With a penchant for research, I feel that fashion should focus on the future while being conscious of its history.

A part of my design aesthetic is myself -from my Anglo- Indian heritage from my mother's side to the Catholic Goan heritage from my father's side, to say that the mix-up of said cultures plays a part in shaping my design identity.

My biggest muse and inspiration are people, of all kinds. I strongly believe that fashion should tell a story, whether it's about a group of middle-aged women who want to try something different, whether it's of a person who saw a glitched phone display and found beauty in something broken, or whether it's of the people who turn an island into a living breathing city.

Circular fashion has always been at the heart of my process. A significant part of my work is made from vintage clothing that has been pulled apart and reconstructed while retaining some of its original elements. I want to minimise the impact of making new garments while still considering scalability.

I come from a space in Indian fashion where sustainability begins and ends with using organic fabrics. I seek to expand this notion, not just by incorporating techniques like upcycling but by having a circular approach, to prove the point that craft and regenerative fashion can co-exist and support each other.

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Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Teresa Carvalheira is a Multidisciplinary Designer, Project Manager and Programmer, Seamstress and Upcycler.

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Teresa Carvalheira is a Portuguese multidisciplinary designer, project manager and programmer, seamstress and upcycler with an interest in intersectional environmentalism, craftivism and social design. Former Community Manager for Fashion Revolution Portugal, she supported several campaigns on consumerism critique and labour justice in the textile industry and since 2015 has organized clothing swap events for hundreds of people. She is currently focused on process-based research on the global contamination and transmission of vernacular textile practices and heritage.

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London, UK

Charlotte Casey is a Designer and Conscious Consumer.

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I am a multifaceted creative who dabbles in textiles, crochet, accessories design and content creation.

I've been interning within the fashion industry as a studio assistant, working with small start-up brands and an upcycling designer, which has grown my interest in conscious consumerism and design even more.

I've enjoyed assisting at fashion events and workshops that bring people together to enjoy crafts and share their appreciation for sustainability and eco-consciousness. I would love to get involved in projects that revolve around these topics, using more sustainable techniques and textile waste management solutions like upcycling, mending and recycling.

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Florence, Italy + New Zealand

Grace Clarkson is an Ambassador for Fashion Revolution New Zealand and is pursuing a Masters in Fashion Brand Management at Polimoda.

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Her studies emphasise the intersection of fashion and people, guiding her commitment to conscientious fashion practices.

Amidst the growing discourse on fashion's environmental impact, she seeks innovative ways to connect consumers with information, fostering positive and sustainable changes in the industry.

Read Grace’s Article “How do we Continue?” on our Behind the Bins Blog here

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Berlin, Germany

Fiona Conlon is a circular designer based in Berlin, Germany.

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Creating in response to her surroundings, Fiona explores the potency of textile and garment design as means for social commentary and personal healing. She is the founder of the social enterprise Of the Cloth, a circular design studio centered around storytelling through clothing.

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London, UK + Geneva, Switzerland

Yozff is Joseph Curle, a designer who investigates our modern material culture and how / why it’s contributing to the ongoing climate emergency.

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Yozff is Joseph Curle, a designer from Wales working in London and Geneva.

Joseph's work investigates our modern material culture and how / why it’s contributing to the ongoing climate emergency.

His interdisciplinary practice moves fluidly between research, making, installation, product design, film, and communication; all of which serve to make sense of—and tell new stories about—how we create, use and dispose of all the STUFF around us.

Joseph's work has been featured in Dezeen, Creative Review and Kiblind magazines; displayed at Salone del Mobile in Milan, Maison&Objet in Paris, and the Wasteland Film Festival in the Mojave Desert; and is held in the permanent collections of both the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland and The Design Museum in London, UK.

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London, UK

Orsola de Castro is an internationally recognised Opinion Leader in Sustainable Fashion, a Mentor, Curator and Author.

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Her multi-award winning brand, From Somewhere (1997 - 2014), was pioneering in the field of upcycling and sold in some of the world’s best boutiques; her collaboration include collections for Tesco Clothing, Robe Di Kappa, Topshop and Speedo.

In 2006, she started Estethica, the highly acclaimed Sustainable Fashion Showcase at London Fashion Week (which she has recently reformed), and in 2013 she co-founded Fashion Revolution, now the world’s largest fashion activism movement, with teams in over 80 countries.

Orsola has been on the jury for the British Fashion Council’s New Gen initiative from 2019 and on the jury and advisory board for the ITS (International Talent Showcase) in Trieste since 2020.

She has been a regular at Central Saint Martins, where she was a Practitioner in Residence for the MA (2016 - 2017) and a Visiting fellow (2017 - 2021) and is an Associate Visiting Professor for the faculty of the Arts at Middlesex University.

Her first book, Loved Clothes Last, was published by Penguin Life in 2021 and translated into Italian (Corbaccio Editori) and French (Edition Marabou).

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London, UK

Reiss Dendie is an Artist, Maker + Footwear Design Consultant. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2022.

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Soooo!... That's ME! A rare moment of my digital imprint captured for the world to see.

A fascination of mine is to understand the fundamental mechanics of footwear, the key sequence of operations which take place before a shoe comes into existence. Charged with the desire to investigate sustainable practices whilst exploring alternative disciplines of Sculpture, Engineering, Bio Design and Performance Art.

Unafraid to fail I will attempt to execute key principles: of transference of space / inviting new perspectives. The multiple uses of in contrast to how far can a concept evolve / As an idea progresses can we assign new purpose.

To explore without boundaries is an ambitious task to say the least, I understand there is a level of naivety as I explore the unknown as my practice takes shape. The challenges I’m faced with may alter the outcome of the question or the practicality of executing the task in hand.

However to overcome potential dis-course, I will need to be reactional and adaptive in submitting my will to the process.

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London, UK + Traveling

Charlie Derbaer is a Content Designer, Experience Designer and Art Director.

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Charlie Derbaer is a multidisciplinary designer specialising in visual storytelling, working across theatre set design, art direction for film and experience design. With a background in Comparative Literature, Charlie D interrogates the complex relationship between narratives and environments, and how the language we use influences the worldviews we hold.

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Cambridge, UK

Disha Deshpande is an Art Theory and Philosophy student at University of the Arts London.

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I focus on creative direction for publications/magazines. I have a diverse skill set cultivated through university and professional experiences- challenging norms with a focus on speculative thinking and critical analysis. I create zines that are personal, political, and philosophical—zines are tools of subversion, creativity, and self-expression; produced by hand and shared through independent channels - quick and dirty.

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Toronto, Canada

Dirk de Waal is a Facilitator of Learning at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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I am a facilitator of learning, activist, sustainability academic, multi-skilled media and live events professional and maker of clay vessels. My academic work draws on DIY methodologies such as subversion, localism, maker culture, craftivism, community-led, and emotional durability.

In my creative practice, I am currently looking at land formations, both natural and man-made, subverting/ queering these mundane objects and positioning them as objects of desire and beauty. As a perfectionist, I am currently unlearning the art of making, (re)learning the practice of letting go, and embracing imperfection.

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Beechmont, QLD Australia + Bibile, Sri Lanka

Kuweni Dias Mendis is a Diasporic Artist reflecting on her diverse experience of culture and identity.

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Kuweni Dias Mendis is a Sri Lankan-Australian artist based in Australia since 1999. As a diasporic artist her work reflects on her diverse experience of culture and identity. Australia has deeply influenced her artistic practice, which focuses on raw mark-making and integrates regenerative practice, arts activism, and cultural facilitation.

Kuweni is a certified Regenerative Practitioner from Regenesis USA. Kuweni uses ritual and ceremony as the source of her artistic manifestations, her creative inquiry into the pulsation of place.

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London, UK

Rose Dodd is a Writer, Editor and Researcher.

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Rose Dodd is a writer, editor and researcher working under the umbrella of sustainability across art, fashion and culture. Her foci include material alternatives, consumer psychology and circularity in textiles and fashion.

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London, UK

Jasmine Dover is a Central Saint Martins Fashion History and Theories student.

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My name is Jasmine, I am in my first year at Central Saint Martins studying Fashion Communications

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London, UK

Ellis Dowle is a Central Saint Martins Fashion History student, interested in fashion as a point of culture and identity.

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I am Ellis Dowle, a second-year Central Saint Martins Fashion history and theories student. I am interested in studying fashion as a point of culture and identity.

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Boston, USA

Val Drew is a student of sociology at Southern New Hampshire University.

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Val Drew is a student of sociology at Southern New Hampshire University and a creative based in greater Boston <3

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London, UK

Jennifer Droguett Espinosa is the founder of Anciela, inspired by the culmination of the Latin folklore and rich experiences of childhood.

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Jennifer Droguett Espinosa is a Colombian and Chilean Creative Director and Designer based in London. She graduated with a BA in Fashion Design and Technology from AMFI in Amsterdam in 2015 and worked at the acclaimed Atelier of Viktor & Rolf before moving to London, she then worked at House of Holland and emerging designers such as Richard Malone, Sabinna, Sadie Williams and Phoebe English.

Droguett founded her label Anciela in 2019

to pay homage to her cultural heritage. Anciela gets its name from her grandparents, ANgel and GraCIELA.

ANCIELA is the culmination of the Latin folklore and rich experiences of a childhood combined with an outsider's perspective from leaving the homeland and living in London. Actively supporting diverse Latinx creatives, by using Fashion as a platform to showcase Latin/British culture whilst celebrating the mix throughout different disciplines.

The brand has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, L'officiel, Metal and Forbes among other independent publications.

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Berlin, Germany

Malu Eckhardt is a conscious and slow living Artist and Designer.

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For me Art is becoming concious, making aware, making this world a better place.

Ich make Art to inspire, to heal, to love.

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London + Bristol, UK

Julian Ellis-Brown is the co-founder and CEO of Ponda, a biomaterials company developing novel textiles from truly regenerative fibres.

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Julian is co-founder and CEO of saltyco, a biomaterials company developing next-gen textiles from plants which restore damaged wetlands.

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Swansea, UK

Jasmine Febbraro is a Fashion Designer and co-founder of Soup Archive making intricately distorted clothing with used materials.

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In 2019, Jasmine co-founded Soup Archive alongside fellow Trash Club Member Sophie Ruane, and Katy Mason, co-founder of Trash Club.

Soup Archive, based in London, Swansea, and Shenzhen is a team of 3 fashion designers that make intricately distorted clothing with used materials, adding found gloves, ironic statements, or stitching together quality textures to make wearable/unusual pieces. Their clothes reflect their humour and desire to re-use unwanted items in a contemporary manner. When moving through the collection you will notice delicate twists, and scrambled metal hard-wear developed in unison with London based member Katy Mason.

Jasmine is a Kingston University Fashion Design Graduate.

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Budapest, Hungary + Târgu Mureș, Romania

Borbala Ferencz is a Fashion Designer and Lecturer, focused on making waste materials look precious again.

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Borbala Ferencz is a fashion designer based in Budapest and Tirgu-Mures. She is the founder of the upcycling fashion collective called BORBALA.

Her work is focusing on making waste materials look precious again, also playing around with the concept of old and new, precious and trash.

She is experimenting with low-tech plastic recycling, and participated at the Precious Plastic version 4 movement.

Besides creating she is involved in various educational programs and she's an intermittent lecturer at Mod'Art International Hungary.

She's regularly participating with BORBALA at Budapest Central European Fashion Week, in 2023 they presented their collection at Milano Fashion Week.

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Italy, Rome

Ray Formilli is an Artist based in Italy, Rome.

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Hello, I'm Ray, a stray cat from Mars. I've been in outer space for a long time, wondering, "Who am I? What am I doing here? What do I like, what do I dislike, and what do I want to do?"

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London, UK

Faye Fraser is a Lecturer, Researcher and Knitted Textile Specialist, based within holistic responsible design methodologies.

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Studied knitwear design and textile innovation, previously have worked in textile design, knitted textile design snd responsible design strategy across a range of product areas. Skilled in digital knitting programmes (Shima/STOLL). Practice based within holistic responsible design methodologies, with a focus on knitted textile design for the outdoor and sports sector.

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Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Rachel Freire is an artist and designer working in fashion, costume and garment technology making sustainability inherent in future design.

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Rachel Freire is an artist and designer working in fashion, costume and garment technology. Rachel is self taught in pattern cutting and trained in Design for Performance at Central St. Martins. Their work inhabits the spaces where disciplines meet with focus on intricate, evocative detailing, narrative garments and exploring the relationship between futuristic applications and traditional techniques.

Rachel ‘accidentally’ launched a conceptual fashion label in 2009 to explore the idea of clothing as armour, embarking on a self taught fashion degree live on the catwalks of London Fashion Week.

Rachel Freire Studio focuses on value attribution and how to make sustainability inherent in future design logic, contributing to the roadmap of boutique production and scalability for wearables: integrating technology, craftsmanship and experimental techniques with high-end garment manufacture processes. Rachel’s East London atelier hosts a myriad of projects and collaborations, working with highly skilled artists and technicians who can be found in the credits. They are currently fascinated with the reality of combining fabrics and circuits to create functional garments for the future and is the textile designer of mi.mu gloves, a gestural interface to compose and perform music with your hands.

Rachel’s work is designed to tell stories, or to inspire them.

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London, UK

Mathilde Giraud is a Textile Designer, recognising the importance in our society of functional textiles, that have an artistic value.

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Mathilde is a French-Mexican textile designer, her multicultural upbringing has instilled in her a great appreciation for detail, color and craftsmanship. She recognize the importance in our society of functional textiles, that have an artistic value and are treated as more than disposable items. Adopting a sustainable and philosophical approach, she believes that craft is a space for reflection and self-introspection. She thoroughly researches on natural materials and developed a deep understanding of wool, especially after working on a regenerative farm. She is particularly drawn to the use of local natural dyes, a method she has passionately embraced in her own work over the past few years.

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Jaipur, India

Bhaavya Goenka is a designer and founder of Iro Iro, Regional Head for Fashion Revolution, and Hub Host of Trash Club Jaipur.

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I work in the field of Circular Design, specializing in the reuse and upcycling of industrial textile waste through indigenous craft practices of India, building replicable systems that allow decentralised development whilst creating conversational products through zero-waste practices. I enjoy designing fashion and textiles that are environmentally, socially and culturally responsible whilst communicating unique stories that are important to me in an emotionally engaging aesthetic.

I am a graduate in craft design with a specialization in textiles from the IICD, India. My subject of study involved design intervention in traditional Indian crafts to bring contemporary context to them and develop products and services with these traditional practices that have greater relevance in the times of today. At my graduation, I won the gold medal for Academic Excellence (2013-2017). I was also selected (with scholarship) to be a part of the CLLB (creative management) course from the IIM-A and received the best project award for my submission ‘Iro Iro: crafting fashion out of waste’.

IRO IRO now functions as a zero-waste lifestyle and fashion design practice. IRO IRO has been featured in many reputed publications and received award nominations from esteemed platforms, such as Lakmé fashion week, Lexus design award.

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London, UK

Gina Grünwald is a Zero-Waste Designer, layering her fashion with a response to social and environmental matters.

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THE ANTIDOTE TO FAST FASHION — Gina Grünwald is an upcoming Swiss designer and fashion design graduate from Central Saint Martins, based in London. The zero-waste designer and founder of brand GINA GRNW has made it her mission to layer her fashion with a response to the social and environmental matters of our time: working both as fashion brand and social business. The result is ecouture, a union of colourful, forward-thinking designs with an uncompromising ethical practice.

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Kent, UK

Emma Hamshare is an Artist, Lecturer and Mindfulness Practitioner, addressing contemporary material and spatial challenges.

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Addressing contemporary material and spatial challenges, Emma works at the intersection of often delineated disciplines. Her work echoes the symphonies of everyday life and makes use of scientific knowledge and technological innovation.

Current works include hand painted and silkscreen works and installations. In the creation of these large scale pieces, control is often relinquished and liquid colour is allowed to move freely around the silk to allow the work to find its own conclusion.

Working with art and intelligent materials to improve health and wellbeing in an increasingly chaotic world, colour is translated into code, pattern into numbers and movement into sounds.

Since graduating from the Royal College of Art she has worked in research to create innovative textiles and garments for Fairspace at Imperial College, to improve the health of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Emma now lectures on the Fashion Design Development course at the University of the Arts London.

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London, UK

Chekii Harling is a Fashion Writer, Curator and Creative Researcher, advocating for second-hand shopping and upcoming designers working with recycled materials.

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I am an award-winning fashion writer, curator and sustainability specialist working at the intersection of creative direction and journalism. With experience across strategy, ideation and creative delivery, I craft compelling campaigns with storytelling at the heart.

At the centre of my work is a drive to make sustainability feel fun, desirable and accessible. In 2019 I founded the semi-satirical magazine TRASHMag that won the LVMH Green Trail Award for bringing a humorous tone of voice and light-hearted visual style to the sustainability conversation.

As a writer, my work has been published in i-D Magazine, The Guardian, 10 Magazine and MW Magazine. Notable interviewees include Gabriela Hearst, Cyrill Gutsch, Jonathan Anderson, Orsola de Castro, Clare Press, Matthew Williams, Bay Garnett and Christopher Raeburn.

I am an advocate for second-hand shopping; it being the most planet-friendly (and fun) way to shop. I am also passionate about platforming up-and-coming designers working with recycled and bio-based materials. At London Fashion Week in 2019, I curated an exhibition space as part of the British Fashion Council’s Positive Fashion Exhibition featuring some of the most exciting designers, jewellers and milliners creating fashion today.

I have spoken to a number of different audiences about sustainable fashion – from 9-year-old students at The Fashion School to bankers in the City of London – and have previously featured on Channel 5 News Live. Other speaking appearances include the Depop Head Office and Colèchi’s Future of Fashion Media event.

I studied BA Fashion Communication: Journalism at Central Saint Martins, achieving first-class honours.

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London, UK

Jude is a Fashion Designer, creating from a non-binary perspective and offers alternative choices by embracing masculinity’s emotional side.

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Jude Hinojosa creates from a non-binary perspective. Their pieces offer alternative choices in the traditional by embracing masculinity’s emotional side.

Storytelling within sustainability is a crucial foundation of their process. As a Latinx native of Texas, U.S.A., the importance of story within Hinojosa’s Mexican and American culture is strengthened with their love of theatre.

Jude is a graduate of the MA menswear program from Central Saint Martins.

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London, UK + Abu Dhabi, UAE

Thanaaz is a Fashion Journalism student at Central Saint Martins.

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Ljubljana, Slovenia

Zala Hrastar is a creator and soul of upcycling brand MORJA.

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Coming from a small Slovenian village, Zala believes that life is brighter when we cherish what we already have, so she brings deadstock, vintage textiles and pre-loved clothes back to life through creative upcycling. MORJA's core lies in vibrant patchworks that weave together everyday emotions in a delightful mix of patterns, where each creation is a testament to handmade craftsmanship. Zala's dedication ensures that every piece not only exudes quality but also tells a story—the tales woven into the fabric from countless moments and the promise of a future narrative shared with its new owner. MORJA is a manifestation of dreams, radiating kindness and positive energy with patience, love, and profound respect for materials that carry stories. MORJA invites you to join a journey of mindful consumption, encouraging a world where every item becomes a bridge between the past and the future.

Wear stories, not just a garment. Express your character.

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London, UK

Lucy Jagger is an Artist, whose artwork celebrates and records times and places that convey a sense of the “weight” or “light” of a place.

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Jagger is London based painter, Sarabande Artist Alumni 2021-22 and Turps Banana Programme Alumni 2021-21.

While working on commercial projects Jagger has developed her personal style. Although primarily a painter, interested in the tradition of painting and narrative, she works in a wide variety of materials.

Jagger's work explores familiar themes; joy, despair, love, release, indulgence, the transitory nature of life - when a moment of delight is also your downfall, mapping out emotions over time.

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London, UK

Joshua James Small is a Sustainable Womenswear Designer, Freelance Writer and Model with conscious practice at his core.

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Joshua James Small is a sustainable womenswear designer, freelance writer and model.

Small’s work has been worn by Rita Ora, Oh Wonder, and Griff, and has been published in Glamour, Notion, Wonderland, Hunger and more.

His work has also been referenced in multiple publications including FORBES, Vogue Italia and V Magazine. Notable for his commitment to sustainability, conscious design practice are at the core of Small's brand.

Outside of design, Small is a writer for various heavyweight British publications, and he has previously worked collaboratively with non-profit organisation Fashion Revolution.

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London, UK

Tilly Janosi is a fashion entrepreneur and artist specialising in upcycling at TildArt.

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I am a fashion entrepreneur and artist specialising in upcycling, and I founded my eco-luxury brand, TildArt, in 2009. My approach centres on ethically upcycling existing materials and incorporating advanced eco-friendly fabrics, creating pieces that captivate visually while showcasing the innovative potential of sustainable fashion.

A hallmark of my collections is the use of upcycled bicycle inner tubes combined with organic materials, with select pieces further enhanced by Swarovski crystals. This collection highlights the beauty and creativity that upcycling brings to haute couture, pushing the boundaries of what sustainable luxury can achieve.

My collections have been showcased across Europe, Canada, the United States, and Australia. Growing up in a small village in Transylvania in a horticultural family, I learned to care for the soil and understand the power of seeds and plants at a very young age. I initially studied horticultural engineering before pursuing my passion for fashion. This deep-rooted connection to the environment, combined with my love for fashion and design, inspired me to build a career that merges both.

I recently opened a private showroom in Notting Hill, London, showcasing a curated selection of upcycled fashion labels and artworks.

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Enschede, The Netherlands

Amy Kerr is a student of MSc Innovative Textile Development at Saxion University of Applied Sciences.

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I am an award-winning Irish textile designer and researcher based in Enschede, the Netherlands, currently studying the “Innovative Textile Development” postgraduate course at Saxion University of Applied Sciences (MSc). I strive towards a more sustainable, circular and socially inclusive future for the textile industry.

I am a highly motivated, passionate, innovative and collaborative designer and researcher with a deep love for weaving and traditional craft merged with innovation. My professional endeavours and academic exploration are inspired by the natural world and its biomimetic mechanisms. I possess a keen fascination for pioneering, unconventional methodologies and materials in textile applications, whether traditional or technical. Sustainability and circular design fuel my enthusiasm, as I strive to pioneer innovative approaches to reshape and improve the fashion and textile sectors. I thrive on interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly the collaboration of science and design. Continual self-improvement drives me, as I actively seek out fresh challenges and opportunities to evolve as a designer, researcher, and individual.

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London, UK

Hyunwoo Kim is an MA Fashion student at the Royal College of Art.

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HWKIM is a Korean fashion designer based in London who presents nostalgia to the public by incorporating his memories into fashion. He graduated BA in Korea, completed the Central Saint Martins Graduate Diploma Fashion, and he is currently studying at Royal College of Art MA Fashion specializing at sustainable human wear.

HW KIM seeks to form a consensus with the public by bringing memories and nostalgia of the past back to the present. Just as old cars are restored and reborn, to HW KIM, fashion means recreating individual memories and rebirthing them in a new form.

This belief is also consistent in the field of sustainability. The materials are developed using second-hand materials and eco-friendly techniques to express aging and nostalgia. In particular, an example can be found in the most recent project, <Don't leave your artefacts for the future>, he used rust dyeing technique from metal and copper into fabrics. Now he is more focusing on reuse, repurpose, recycle in one perspective of sustainability.

Lastly, HW KIM rejects the typical format of presenting fashion. Rather than using a simple runway, I use audio-visual and olfactory media that fit the mood of the subject, and try to convey my story in a humorous way.

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London, UK

Petrina is studying Journalism exploring folklore craftsmanship, upcoming queer creatives and nightlife, and the remediation of the fashion system.

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I am an aspiring fashion writer, coming from the beautiful city of Athens, Greece. I have a passion for folklore craftsmanship, upcoming queer creatives and nightlife, and the remediation of the fashion system. I have a background in International & European politics which has informed my outlook and approach, along with my Foundation studies that provided me with the technical skills to frame my work creatively. The Fashion Journalism course I am on now challenges me to be the best version of myself.

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Bristol, UK

Heather Knight is a Graphic Designer and founder of Arteri, a design collective dedicated to using creativity in service to a possible, more regenerative future.

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I am the founder of Arteri, a design collective dedicated to using creativity in service to a possible, more regenerative future. Creativity that inspires connection and drives action to co-create a future where people and the planet thrive. We design award-winning impact reports, bold brand identities and creative campaigns that inspire connection and collective action.

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London, UK

Scar Kennedy is a non-binary Knitwear Designer, currently studying on the Central Saint Martins MA Fashion course.

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Scar is a non-binary knitwear designer currently studying on the Central Saint Martins MA Fashion course. Lover of sea creatures and bugs, avid upcycler and crafter.

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London, UK

Jill is a lecturer and artist whose work considers the practical and theoretical intricacy of creative labour.

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Jill Kennedy-McNeill is an artist based in London. Her work considers the practical and theoretical intricacy of creative labour in order to investigate the emotional resonances of economy, organisation and bureaucracy. Her multidisciplinary practice has its origins in garment and textile construction and she is frequently called back to these politically charged modalities both as a vehicle for the realisation of works, and as a form of creative pedagogy.

Recent projects have involved questioning the paradox of sustainable fashion (‘Task Force: Solving the World is Easy To Do’, 2022), interrogating systems of remuneration and exchange on precarious job sites (Indenture Time, 2022) and upcoming works will explore the historical and interpersonal complexities of collaborative co-production (The Labour that Waits, upcoming 2024).

Jill is a Senior Lecturer on Fashion, Textile and Fine Art pathways at several Educational Institutions, where she is an active advocate for widening participation because, fundamental to her art and teaching practice is the belief in community learning as a form of direct action.

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London, UK

Ashley is a Weaver and Upcycler, transforming deadstock materials into new bespoke handwoven fabrics.

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Ashley is a weaver & upcycler, based in South East London with a focus on colour, texture and upcycling.

Ashley takes discarded clothes & fabrics such as wedding dresses, jeans & deadstock materials to name a few and re-weaves these fabrics alongside deadstock yarns into new bespoke handwoven fabrics.

Ashley sells these fabrics by bespoke order and has her own namesake fashion brand where she upcycles vintage denim jackets with her hand woven fabrics and creates accessories from luxury deadstock woven fabrics.

Alongside this she teaches upcycling workshops for organizations such as The British textile Biennial, New designers & Lewisham Borough of culture.

Ashley Graduated in 2020 with a first class degree in Fashion & textiles specializing in woven textiles & her research into social economics of second hand fashion. After navigating graduation during the pandemic she won the prestigious Royal Clothworkers x Cockpits art award enabling her to have her London studio where she has explored her practice in multiple avenues such as fashion, home wear , Bridal & content creation.

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London, UK

Saskia Lenaerts is a Designer/maker and social fashion engagement developer based in London, UK.

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Saskia Lenaerts (1993)

As an advocate for a cross-cultural and borderless world, Saskia uses her design practice to impact society. It aims for a transnational way of life by disarming prejudice. Demonstrating both our cultural differences and commonalities, her work is a celebratory juxtaposition of diversity.

Central to her work is humankind and its multitude of context. Her groundbreaking therapeutic design and make methods connect the chosen up cycled and repurposed source materials, to the inherent concept of her make and research practice. Her socially and ethically driven practice pushes the fashion industry’s system, their design mechanisms and how we consume into new territory.

As a maker she creates a space where fashion identity, design ethics, craft and movement of people interconnect.

It is the transnational purpose and mission that propels her practice forward.

Before achieving a master’s degree in Fashion Menswear from Central Saint Martins (2020), Saskia studied at the Antwerp Academy and Kingston School of Art.

She is the recipient of the 2018 Considered Design Award, the 2019 L’Oréal Professionnel scholarship, the 2022 Big Design Award Tokyo and the Milan Fashion Film Festival Award 2023. Over the past four years showcasing her repurposed collections both at London and Lisbon Fashion Weeks.

In 2021 Birkenstock 1774 and Saskia launched a shoe collaboration. She has worked as a designer and concept creator for Alexander McQueen and Burberry.

In the world of stage performance and dance, she collaborated on “TrapLord” by Ivan Blackstock and “Find Your Eyes” by Benji Reid, both co-produced by Sadlers Wells, Factory International and 180 Strand.

She is a visiting Lecturer in concept and collection development for Fashion final-year degree students at Kingston School of Art. She is a member of “Fantastic Toiles” an artist and design collective breaking ground in the world of independent-led retail and curation. For this she designs and makes one-off repurposed capsule collections which drop every other month as part of the Fantastic Toiles in-person boutique events and book launches.

In 2024 Saskia founded “Threads of Transformation” a social design engagement, research and reintegration project in The Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Collaborating with Business For Better Society, Remember Youth for Change and Image director “Vitoria De Mello Franco” she is using therapeutic design and deconstruction methods as a vehicle for social healing to destigmatise victims of conflict and war.

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Jingdezhen, China + London, UK

Liwen Liang is a Ceramic Craftsman and Fashion Designer, bringing spirit of craftsmanship and aesthetic of our community into fashion.

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Liwen Liang is a ceramic craftsman and fashion designer who graduated from London College of Fashion in 2023.

I’m a ceramic craftsman and also a fashion designer specialising in soft and light ceramic fabric.

Aim to bring spirit of craftsmanship and aesthetic of our community into fashion.

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Gothenburg, Sweden

Hannah is a Fashion Alchemist, who co-Founded the upcycling studio ‘HURRA PANGPANG’.

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"HURRA PANGPANG is an Upcycling-studio based in central Gothenburg and run by the design duo Hanna Linnéa Ryd & Izabella Simmons. Through personal reuse of your most memory-charged garments or belongings, they manufacture clothes, accessories & decor from unwanted materials by today's overconsumption.

The discarded remnants from secondhand sorting or private customers' own things are given a new life. They are presented for new areas of use and allow you as a customer to proudly wear or be surrounded by your most beautiful memories.

""We turn your forgotten treasures into wearable treats!"""

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London, UK

Georgia is a Fashion Communication student at Central Saint Martins and Communications Intern at Trash Club.

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From 2 years of studying Fashion Communication, Georgia has explored many different practices to hone in on her specialism. From graphic design to styling, her journey has led her to various creative endeavours, picking up skills from multiple roles and strengthening her style. With a clear passion for photography, Georgia developed her relationship with childhood nostalgia of media and technology, bringing her colourful view to projects like 'My Nokia' and 'Recess'.

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Porto, Portugal

Mariana Martins de Oliveira is a Multidisciplinary Artist + Co-Host of Trash Club Porto.

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Mariana Martins de Oliveira (1995) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Porto, Portugal. Her work aims to question contemporary art and the position of the individual in the creative, ecological and communitarian context. Her practice is currently oscillating in-between investigation of food culture and participation.

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London, UK

Benedetta Martoglia is a Central Saint Martins Fashion History and Theories student.

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I'm a 2nd-year Fashion History and Theory student who is interested in the social, cultural, political and environmental impacts of the Fashion industry.

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London, UK

Katy Mason is an Artist, Upcyclist, Designer, Fragile Rage Enthusiast, 1/3 of the collective ‘Soup Archive’ and co-Founder of Trash Club.

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Katy Mason makes striking creations out of objects that might conventionally be perceived as rubbish but have been turned into works of art.

Mason studied Fashion Design at Nottingham Trent University, where she found that the intuitive element of draping (a process of creating a pattern by positioning and pinning fabric in different ways on a mannequin) came more naturally to her than the more rigid flat pattern cutting. It was in Berlin, where Mason lived between 2018 and 2020, that she began to see value in using the discarded objects she found all around her as material for fashion. Along with her two friends Sophie Ruane and Jasmine Febbraro, Mason would prowl the streets for bin bags full of clothes and bits of scrap that could be used to create their quirky designs. As this hobby came to fruition, the trio founded the up-cycling clothes brand Soup Archive, which is still running today.

Although she still collaborates with Soup Archive, Katy, now back in the UK, has moved away from clothes and into jewellery making and sculpture. Taking influence from her fashion background, she describes her craft as ‘object draping’ due to its improvisational nature. Mason has just come to the end of her year’s studio residency at Sarabande Foundation and is moving to a new studio at World’s End on the King’s Road.

In 2021, Katy co-founded Trash Club alongside fellow artist Matthew Needham.

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London, UK

Barley Massey is an upcyclist, co-creator and teacher, and founder and caretaker of the "Fabrications" maker space in Hackney, East London.

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Borth, Wales

Dee Matthew is an MA Fine Art:Digital Student at Central Saint Martins.

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XD artist their focus: Geopolitical Climate Chaos and its intersectionality with Gender Identity and Abelism.

Using ironic materiality and humour their aim is to Save the Earth.

On a pin… Transmission,

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London, UK

Christiane Mats is an Artist, Illustrator and Lecturer, focusing on intimacy documented through experimental drawing.

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Christiane Matz (b. 1986, Spremberg, Germany) is an artist living and working in Hackney, London. She has an MA in Visual Communication, Illustration from the Royal College of Art (2016).

Her work focuses on intimacy documented through experimental drawing, imagining new narratives from observed and lived experiences. These images capture moments in time, exploring emotions of grief, desire and love.

Christiane uses oil pastels, acrylic paint, dry soft pastels and watercolour pencils often on delicate fragile rice paper. Inspired by observation of the every day, photography and film, her drawings begin with a graphite pencil sketch, which changes and alters during the process of image manipulation and imagination.

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London, UK

Dominique is a Journalism student at Central Saint Martins, investigating global artisanal and sustainable craft practices and emerging creatives.

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Dominique is a journalist based in London, UK. During her studies at Central Saint Martins, Dominique has produced thought-provoking articles and creative project outcomes. Her writing covers her passion for giving upcoming creatives an amplified voice, investigating global artisanal and sustainable craft practices and thorough research into the subcultures, communities and history within art and fashion culture.

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London, UK

Sehar Mehra is a Textile Design Student at University of the Arts London, specialising in Knitwear and Crochet.

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London, UK + Munich, Germany

Sara is a Fashion Student at Central Saint Martins, learning about the world, its nuances and the stories garments hold.

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My Name is Sara Mikorey-Shpigler and I am currently a student at Central Saint Martins in London.

Besides my interest in Fashion, I also love painting, photography and psychology. I love learning about the world and its nuances, the stories garments hold and how we can make this world a better place. How can we create a future that serves all of us, find smarter ways of working and creating garments that change the way we see and engage with fashion ? I love to envision a place where everyone can come together and share knowledge, passion and crafts. The exchanging of traditions, ideas and passion is the future!

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London, UK

Justin Moore is a Graphic Designer and Art Director, who co-founded Studio Palmetto.

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Palmetto is an art direction and graphic design studio run by Justin Moore and Maria Pizzeria.

Studio Palmetto are the creative minds behind Trash Club’s visual identity.

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Porto, Portugal

Franziska Nagelová is a Czech/German analogue photographer based in Porto, Portugal.

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Franziska Nagelová (b. 1993) is a Czech/German analogue photographer based in Porto, Portugal. She combines analogue, digital, and experimental methods, emphasising sustainability through eco-friendly practices. Her work captures the connection between humans and nature, highlighting moments of awe and wonder. Franziska aims to inspire a deep bond with body, soul and our natural environment and promote sustainability and mindfulness through her vibrant, emotionally resonant images.

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London, UK

Tasnim is a Makeup Artist, enhancing natural beauty across fashion photography, film & TV, music and bridal/occasions.

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I am a professional make-up artist based in London, and balance my time working in various sectors of the industry including, fashion photography, film & TV, Music & bridal/occasion's.

I am a self taught makeup artist.

My signature style of make-up is focusing on ‘glowy skin’, enhancing your natural beauty and making you feel the best version of yourself which is long lasting.

My love for makeup and beauty has been with me my whole life.

In the past I have had the pleasure to work with Nike Swim, Notion, Noctis, Sorbet Magazine, Scorpio Jin Magazine, GAUCHOWORLD, Vans, and Muslimsisterhood.

I love learning new things, being inspired, and creative people. I take pride in creating beautiful work, and hope I can be fortunate enough to do what I Iove for the rest of my life.

Everything I use is tested by me for durability and performance and only makes it into my makeup kit if I am confident of its quality.

I can assure anyone who is considering my service, that I am professional, ethical, and understand the importance of your event, and only work to the highest standards.

I have always adhered to very strict hygiene protocols.

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London, UK

Matthew Needham is a Multidisciplinary Artist, Curator, and Programme-wide Lecturer in Sustainability and Fashion at Central Saint Martins. He co-founded Trash Club in 2021 and is the Hub Host for Trash Club London.

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Matthew Needham (b. 1993, Nuneaton, UK) is a British-Czech artist and curator, known for his contributions toward sustainability within the British fashion industry.

As an artist and curator, Needham’s practice focuses on bricolaging fly-tipped waste within his unique exhibition aesthetic. His ever-evolving investigations into the Anthropocene pose greater questions towards humanity's curation of the world around us and its dissemination within nature.

Matthew holds the title of Sustainability Lecturer for Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins, offering his extensive knowledge of sustainable practice and thinking to the minds of tomorrow.

In 2021, Needham co-founded ‘Trash Club’ alongside fellow artist and collaborator, Katy Mason.

Through weekly knowledge exchange, Trash Club discusses topics of relevance relating to their C-R-A-P pillars; Consciousness, Responsibility, Authenticity, and People with the goal of encouraging its members to improve both their personal and professional engagement with the world we live in.

Matthew has been described as a ‘trailblazer of upcycling' and has been featured in such publications as The Guardian, i-D, Dezeen, the Daily Mail, and Vogue.

Exhibitions include Estethica x Berlin Fashion Week x 202030 Summit, Berlin (2022); Sarabande Foundation, London (2022); Hoxton 253, London (2022); the Textiel Museum, Tilburg (2022); Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (2021); the Design Museum, London (2021); FASHIONCLASH, Maastricht (2021), MAD - Home of Creators, Bruxelles (2020); University of Technology Sydney Gallery, Sydney (2020). Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design, France (2020); The Lethaby Gallery, London (2017).

Awards include Sarabande Artist Residency Recipient (2021), New Order of Fashion Fellowship (2021), Fashion Makes Sense Award (2020), The British Fashion Council MA Scholarship (2020), The Kering Sustainability Fund (2018), The British Fashion Council MA Scholarship (2018), Finalist in MullenLowe NOVA Award (2017), The British Fashion Council BA Scholarship (2016),

Collaborations include Alice Potts (2020), Helen Kirkum (2020), Jo Miller (2020), Charles Jeffrey's LOVERBOY (2019), and Brook Sigal (2017).

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London, UK

Clara Nicholson is a Fashion Designer specialising in sustainability, who focuses on zero-waste pattern cutting and responsible material sourcing.

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Clara is a graduate from London College of Fashion with a degree in Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear. She specialises in sustainability, with a particular focus on zero-waste pattern cutting, and responsible material sourcing.

In her work, her approach to sustainability spans the entire lifecycle, with wearability and timelessness as a key focus alongside design for end-of-life, with consideration of recyclability and biodegradability. This is something she would like to develop in her career within a sustainability team of a sustainably focused brand.

Clara worked at The Mills Fabrica, for over a year. Working across events, operations and marketing.

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South Carolina, USA

Jane Nodine is an Artist, making art grounded in materiality that includes new and found metals.

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I make art that gives viewers an experience for looking, Jane Allen Nodine.

I am an artist and designer living in South Carolina where I produce unique paintings and art to wear. My interest is grounded in sophisticated design that is well made and focuses on my strong interest in materiality that includes new and found metals such as plastics, laminates, natural and synthetic substances.

After finishing graduate school, I designed and manufactured art jewelry under the name of Jane Nodine Hardwear. From the mid 1990's to 2018 I served as professor of art and university gallery director at University of South Carolina Upstate. Having a strong interest in materiality and a personal connection to the natural world, my work is inspired by elements that show the passage of time and a record of aging. Informed by the macro and micro world, I focus on explorations of color, texture and substance manipulation that yield unusual and seductive visual results. My attention to surface and detailed foundation layers places an emphasis on the appearance of work as I strive to attract the viewer in for closer observation. I work intuitively and describe my approach to artmaking as a process of excavation. There is no map or definitive end and no preconceived plan of travel, only a sense that something waits to be revealed.

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Bangkok, Thailand

Sarisa Nuansri is a student of Graduate Fashion Diploma at Central Saint Martins and founder of SAVESTUDIOS.

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The year is 2100. Life as we once knew it ceases to exist. Cities once alive, bustling with movement and people are now submerged under rising seas. The murmurs of wildlife are reduced to memories of the past.

But within this desolate landscape stands SAVESTUDIOS. With resilience, they serve as a mouthpiece through which our world continues to live and breathe. Here, nature manifests itself through their latest collection, "2100: End of the World," the two now coexist in a strange, almost prophetic relationship. As ancient myths collide with scientific foresight, SAVESTUDIOS invites us into a new world teetering on the edge of cataclysm b, brimming with a quiet, resilient beauty.

Savestudios’s journey into this apocalyptic future begins not in the future but in the past. Along the banks of the River of Theme, they join a group of mudlarkers, sifting through the remnants of bygone eras. These historical artefacts—clay pipes, ceramics—become the foundation of their creative process, informing designs with a sense of continuity between past and future, destruction and creation. The rough, tactile presence of these found objects contrasts starkly with the delicate fabrics they adorn, symbolising the resilience required to rebuild from ruins.

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Paris, France

Ifeanyi Okwuadi is a designer based in Paris, France.

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Ifeanyi Okwuadi is a designer based in Paris, France.

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Porto, Portugal

Eunice Pais is a Visual Artist, Founder of Pias Agency and Co-Host of Trash Club Porto.

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Eunice Pais is a visual artist who works with photography, video, fabric manipulation, and text. Influenced by her Mozambican and Portuguese heritage, Pais delves into human-nature interactions, identities, labor, social ecology, and futures through speculative and interdisciplinary research.

Through auto-ethnographic and anthropological approaches, her artistic practice serves as a constant space for questioning and unraveling the 'networks of existence' that comprehend the dynamics of the 'intangible' as a methodology.

Drawing on family and societal knowledge passed down through generations, and her scientific background, Pais deconstructs contemporary fluxes of reality through semiotic studies of folklore and myths as spaces of liminality in ongoing cultural transformations, thus inherently engaging with the questions posed by the work pursuing decoloniality and equity. Her art is a tribute to inclusion, reclamation, equity, joy, and nostalgia.

Driven by a persistent question regarding the ethical implications of photography as a practice for both people and the environment, Eunice founded PAIS- Ethical Image-making in 2020. This photo production agency addresses systemic issues within fashion photography and visual art by championing inclusivity and amplifying diverse voices. Through deep community engagement, PAIS fosters regenerative work models within photography, paving the way for a more equitable and sustainable future.

In 2022. Eunice showcased her work at The Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool (UK), as well as at the Photo Fringe Festival in Brighton (UK) and the State of Fashion's Biennale in Arnhem (The Netherlands). This year, her art has been exhibited in Leicester (UK), Paris (France), and Rome (Italy).

She has been awarded the Alumni Engagement Fund by the U.S Embassy to design and develop a methodology addressing neurodiversity inclusion in societal spheres (education and art).

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London, UK

Polly is a Fashion Student and Writer, exploring the esoteric and existential underpinnings of fashion and imagery in contemporary existence.

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I am a multi-disciplinary fashion student and writer based in London. I have a distinctive perspective on fashion and its functions and am studying BA (Hons) Fashion Communication: Fashion History and Theory at Central St Martins. My work is known for its depth and willingness to explore the esoteric and existential underpinnings of fashion and fashion imagery in contemporary existence.

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London, UK

Rajan is a Fashion Design Sportswear graduate from The London College of Fashion, interested in innovation, development and evolution of sportswear design.

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Rajan is a BA (Hons) Fashion Design Sportswear graduate from The London College of Fashion. Creatively driven and design focused, he is particularly interested within the innovation, development and evolution of sportswear design.

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London, UK

Maria is a Graphic Designer and Art Director, who co-founded Hamster FC and Studio Palmetto.

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Maria works with Art Direction, Creative Direction, Styling, Casting, Photography & Graphic Design

Thai—Swedish creative based in East London.

Co—Founder of Studio Palmetto & Hamster FC.

Studio Palmetto are the creative minds behind Trash Club’s visual identity.

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London, UK

Elly is a Costume Maker and Textile Artist, whose creations are inspired by our interactions with the natural world.

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Elly is a costume maker and textile artist based in South London whose creations are inspired by our interactions with the natural world. Elly works with discarded or unwanted textiles and other found objects to tell stories about the relationships we have with our clothes.

Her work seeks to highlight the disconnect between clothing as a valuable form of personal expression, and a global fashion system that exploits people and planet. The threads running through her work connect costume history, sustainable fashion and a love of London’s wild places.

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Eindhoven, The Netherlands + Singapore

Anabel is a Textile Designer, Scientist and co-founder of UNCOLOUR Studios, developing the first 100% bio-based and biodegradable silkscreen ink. She is the Hub Host of Trash Club Eindhoven.

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Anabel Poh (1998, Singapore) is a textile designer, scientist and the co-founder of UNCOLOUR Studios, a textile start-up developing the first 100% bio-based and biodegradable silkscreen ink. She blends her inherent sensitivity for design and compassion towards both people and the planet, harmonising it with a technical curiosity about bettering how textiles are made. She is currently pursuing her MSc in Innovative Textile Development at Saxion University of Applied Sciences.

Her works have been shown largely during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven (NL), Palais De Tokyo in Paris (FR), Ways of Caring Biennale in Arnhem (NL), Nationaal Glasmuseum Leerdam (NL), 38CC Gallery (NL) and Ghent Design Fest (BE)."

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London, UK

Nowshin is an Artist and Weaver specialising in woven textiles, telling a story through the use of material and processes.

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Nowshin Prenon is a textile designer, specialising in woven textiles. As a textile designer Prenon’s work focuses on telling a story through the use of material and processes. She creates hand-dyed and hand-woven artwork. Her process investigates both digital explorations and expressive winding techniques, which are influenced by her cultural heritage. Her use of rich colour and detailed pattern translated into fabrics illustrate her style as a designer.

Prenon is interested in the relationship of colour and form, which she uses to create layered textile. Playing with line and colour in different order of thread through wrapping allows her to construct intricate artwork.

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London, UK

Valeria Pulici is a Designer and Artist, leading an artistic project, Beautyness.

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Beautyness is an artistic project that aims to merge upcycled fashion with experimental biobased materials and video performances. The common thread of the project is an investigation and questioning of the self in an era in which it is increasingly constructed and staged. Combining aspects of the abject and the beautiful, Beautyness stands at their crossroads, finding pleasure in a constant feeling of tension.

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London, UK

Annie Purdy is a student of MA Fashion - Footwear at the Royal College of Art.

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Annie Purdy is a Footwear Artist, Designer and Shoemaker.

A graduate of Central Saint Martins and London College of Fashion, where she won the ‘Sustainable Development Prize’ at the 2023 Cordwainers Footwear Awards, she is now enrolled on the Fashion Masters with a focus in Footwear at the Royal College of Art, where she is currently supported by the Max Mara scholarship.

Annie’s work is a material commentary centred around the experiences of women who hike, run, camp and their community, presented through the vehicle of upcycled footwear. The footwear artist introduces her work through the medium of reimagining post-consumer waste and hiking-associated materials found on British coasts and hiking trails. From broken hot water bottles, tents and kites - reconstructed into interesting shoe uppers - her narrative aims to extend the notions of envisioning sustainable female-made footwear.

She is an avid runner and co-leads the female-run club ‘Athene Runs’ and is also the co-founder of ‘Swamp Wi, a queer feminist arts collective.

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London, UK

Cassie is a PhD candidate in regenerative textiles and CQ Studio founder, focusing on post-industrial waste and regenerative plants.

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Cassie Quinn is a multi-disciplinary designer and is the founder of CQ Studio, which she founded during her Master’s in Biodesign from Central Saint Martins. She conducts R&D of regenerative textiles for fashion. She focuses on post-industrial waste, regenerative plants and post-consumer waste to demonstrate transforming waste into worth by developing innovative materials, including using food waste to clean wastewater to make plastic-free sequins. She uses techniques from traditional crafts to new technologies including embroidery, laser-cutting, biology and plant pigment extraction.

Alongside researching innovative materials, she delivers workshops for organisations such as Soho House, Prince’s Trust, Spotlight Youth Centre & The Victoria & Albert Museum. She has also worked in partnership with brands to deliver workshops including Size? and Project ReGo. Her work has been presented at exhibitions and in publications including Wallpaper* Magazine, Future Fabrics Expo and the IUCN World Congress on the LVMH stand. She has been awarded many accolades including the EU Commission Worth II Partnership Project, the Mayor of London’s Entrepreneur Awards for Creative Industries, and the Young Innovators Award supported by Innovate UK.

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London, UK

Rahemur is an Artist, Designer, Filmmaker, Lecturer and Trash Club Advisory Board member contributing to the British-Bengali diaspora.

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Rahemur Rahman (born 1990) is a British-Bengali artist and fashion designer known for his significant contributions to the British-Bengali diaspora and innovative use of traditional Bengali block printing techniques through his eponymous menswear label. Rahman is known for his focus on sustainable and ethically produced garments and is the first Bangladeshi fashion designer in history to showcase their work at London Fashion Week.

Rahman was born and raised in Tower Hamlets, London. Rahman's father worked as a tailor in the rag trade, the immigrant-run clothing manufacturing business that provides cheap labour for the fashion industry. Rahman's work is heavily influenced by his Bengali heritage and the city in which he grew up.

Rahman graduated from Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design, London, alongside fellow London-based designers Richard Malone and A Sai Ta.

In 2019, he presented his first London Fashion Week collection entitled 'For the people who dream in colour' that aimed to reinterpret and re-tell stories of South Asian identity. Drawing inspiration from his family's photographs, his father's love of traditional British tailoring, and his mother's love of clothing from her homeland, Rahman's collection blended Western and South Asian elements, reflecting the cultural duality of his own family and their connection to the rag trade.

As a member of the Bengali diaspora, Rahman is deeply committed to preserving and promoting his cultural heritage, and reimagining how queer creatives in the South Asian community are perceived. He is also an active member of the London art and fashion scenes, and is known for his collaborative spirit and dedication to mentoring emerging Muslim talents.

Finalist for the British Fashion Council's Changemakers 'People' prize in 2021.

Winner of Outstanding Achievements Award at British Bangladeshi Fashion Council in 2019 and 2022.

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Lisbon, Portugal

Herizo is a Fashion Entrepreneur, Changemaker, Activist and Creative Sustainability Consultant with a holistic approach and diverse background.

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A multifaceted fashion entrepreneur who is also an environmental activist, changemaker, and creative sustainability consultant.

A passionate fashion designer with a focus on sustainability, community, and collaboration!

A cross-disciplinary, innovative thinker with a holistic approach and a diverse background, having lived in several different countries like Paris and Montreal, Canada, he is now relocated and based in Lisbon, Portugal.

He founded ZOUZOUDAGO in 2017, a self-expression, unconventional, and inclusive upcycling brand.

Beyond the realm of a fashion brand, it’s also a collaborative platform that encompasses ingenious ideas that initiate and provoke CHANGE! The brand exemplify the intersection between Fashion, Nature and Biodiversity, and most importantly, shift the narrative of what a responsible brand is in a personal and unique way.

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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia + London, UK

Ellen is a Print Artist and Designer, using her work towards positive global change whilst rooted in community and responsibility.

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Ellen Rock is a print artist and designer based in London.

Ellen uses her painterly prints to create a language of symbolism, opening universal dialogue and using her work as an enabler for positive global change.

A designer rooted in community and responsibility - she is an advocate for handcrafted processes. Ellen's international work combines digital and hand rendered graphics with traditional artisanship techniques and has developed projects with communities in Indonesia, Guatemala and Nepal to date.

Her print and textile projects include working with a range of collaborators in fashion, interiors, and installation; most recently — a WaterAid installation for the Copenhagen Fashion Summit.

The ER product range is an extension of Ellen's signature print language - available to purchase online, as well as prints being available for purchase and commissions.

Ellen's mission being – to bring joy to the wearer or owner and embed timeless stories; globally and locally.

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Shanghai, China

Sophie is a Fashion Designer, Hub Host of Trash Club Shanghai and co-founder of Soup Archive, interested in sustainable solutions through design.

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Sophie Ruane is an MA fashion graduate from Central Saint Martins interested in sustainable solutions through design.

In 2019, Sophie co-founded Soup Archive alongside fellow Trash Club Member Jasmine Febbraro, and Katy Mason, co-founder of Trash Club.

Soup Archive, based in London, Swansea, and Shenzhen is a team of 3 fashion designers that make intricately distorted clothing with used materials, adding found gloves, ironic statements, or stitching together quality textures to make wearable/unusual pieces. Their clothes reflect their humour and desire to re-use unwanted items in a contemporary manner. When moving through the collection you will notice delicate twists, and scrambled metal hard-wear developed in unison with London based member Katy Mason.

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London, UK

Jodie is a Fashion and Textiles Designer and Lecturer, working towards the therapeutic powers of handcraft as well as the emotional and cultural value.

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Jodie Ruffle is an embroidery and embellishment designer for the fashion industry, living and working in East London.

After graduating from a BA in Fashion and working in industry as a designer/maker, Jodie realised her true calling was in textiles and went on to study Couture Embellishment and MA Fashion, specialising in embroidery. Since graduating, Jodie has worked with brands including Alexander McQueen, Ashish, &Daughter, Kurt Geiger and Mih Jeans as well as collaborating with menswear brand Parc London, embroidery designer Ellie Mac and textile company DMC.

Jodie has a strong belief in the therapeutic powers of handcraft as well as the emotional and cultural value it gives to garments and objects. Working with a sustainable ethos and upcycling materials wherever she can has led to her working closely with Fashion Revolution, as an individual designer and also as a founding member of fashion collective, CONGREGATIONdesign.

Her personal work focusses on deconstructing traditional haute couture embroidery and embellishment techniques and combining the imperfect, deconstructed stitch with meticulously placed sequins and beads onto upcycled garments.

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London, UK

Shannen is a Fashion Innovator, crafting and advocating waste-free practices, utilising art communities as a force for change.

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Drawing inspiration from remote islander life in the Isle of Man, my concepts are heavily inspired by Manx racing culture and folklore superstitions with the occasional ‘emo’ teenage-anx throwback; dubbing my creations as an eco-eerie-punk fusion.

Rather than fall slave to the usual fashion calendar constraints - I work towards closing loops rather than seasons, reimagining life to disregarded throwaway materials. From working with laddered tights to old racing leathers - each collection is fully transparent with a story to tell, thus giving way to my ‘throwbacks & throwaways’ ethos.

As well as crafting one-of-a-kind pieces and advocating waste-free practices, I also hold a strong passion for utilising art communities as a force of social and economic change, establishing and curating exhibit’s with the collectives.

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London, UK

Pinanki Shah is the Founder & Creative Director of PINANKI

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Pinanki's journey began in the maximalist city of Mumbai, where she was raised. She pursued a BA in Fashion in the heritage city of Jaipur, learned sustainable fashion practices in the experimental town of Auroville, and graduated with an MA in Fashion from Central Saint Martins. Drawing inspiration from the rich textiles and clothing archives of South Asia, she is inspired by the dress and life of a woman in the precolonial era, resulting in garments that are not only visually stunning but also environmentally intentional.

Throughout her career, Pinanki has gained valuable experience working with visionary brands like 431-88 by Shweta Kapur in Delhi and Pam Hogg in London. Pinanki brings her multicultural experiences to fashion and works with a unique blend of craft-based, minimal-waste practices at the forefront.

While pursuing MA Fashion Womenswear in Central Saint Martins, Pinanki earned the L'Oréal Professionnel Scholarship for her graduation collection in 2023 and the Sally Woodward Award in 2022. Her work has been featured on Vogue Runway, SHOWstudio, Another Magazine, T Magazine, 1 Granary, Fashion United, V Magazine and Port Magazine.

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London, UK + South Carolina, USA

Lucy Siegler is a Graphic Design Communication student at Central Saint Martins.

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Lucy Siegler is a graphic designer and illustrator working primarily with publishing and editorial. One half of SEIZE Magazine.

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London, UK

Carolina is a Production Engineer, focusing on sustainability and revolutionising the way we think fashion and our world.

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I’m a numbers and logical person with a passion for creative spaces and ideas. I have worked for the fashion industry at the beginning of my career and took a break for more than decade tired of the curse the industry was taking. Right now I feel the urge to comeback and learn from this amazing community which is revolutionising the way we think fashion and our world.

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Gothenburg, Sweden

Izabella is a Fashion Alchemist, who co-founded the upcycling studio ‘HURRA PANGPANG’.

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"HURRA PANGPANG is a Upcycling-studio based in central Gothenburg, and run by the design duo Hanna Linnea Ryd & Izabella Simmons.Through a personal reuse of your most memory-charged garments or belongings, they manufacture clothes, accessories & decor from unwanted materials by today's overconsumption.

The discarded remnants from secondhand sorting or private customers' own things are given a new life. They are presented for new areas of use and allow you as a customer to proudly wear or be surrounded by your most beautiful memories.

""We turn your forgotten treasures into wearable treats!"""

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London, UK

Naomi Smith is a Political Pr Strategist for Creatives + Brands.

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A NEW ERA OF BRAND PR

NAOMI helps brands, influencers and creatives take a meaningful, non-performative stand on social issues through her creative pr and educational pr services.

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London, UK

Histria is a Designer and Model, celebrating cultural inheritance and the power being different through pieces made to last.

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Dominican fashion designer & model with interest on celebrating cultural inheritance and the power being different through pieces made to last with a story and purpose that are as much art as a garment, while focusing & contributing to positive changes based on social, labour, and environmental justice.

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London, UK

Katherine is a Textile Artist, Designer, Lecturer and PhD candidate at Kingston University London, driven by engagement with textile waste.

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I am a textile artist, designer, lecturer and PhD candidate at Kingston University London in sustainable practices. my research is driven by a long-term engagement with textile waste, specifically waste hosiery to produce new materials forms using a hybrid interdisciplinary approach to creative remanufacturing using regenerative design methods and obsolete machinery.

I have worked within industry for over 20+ years and my established her award winning zero waste design studio and label Sans Soucie in 2002 in Vancouver Canada, relocating to the UK in 2019. My studio is currently located in East London and is motivated by a practice that reimagines tools, machinery and materials by reclaiming the practice of artistic cloth production.

My work has been showcased, exhibited, sold and commissioned internationally in Canada, USA, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Hungary, Germany and the UK.

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London, UK

Martina is a Designer, using her scientific background to challenge materials, elements and expectations.

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Designer Martina Spetlova’s scientific background influences her experimental approach that restlessly challenges materials, elements and expectations. Her highly identifiable handwoven leathers in unexpected juxtapositions become a trademark off her brand and are applied on jackets, accessories and larger scale interior design projects.

Alongside her uncompromising design aesthetic, Martina is committed to sustainability and ethical sourcing throughout her supply chain. Forever scanning the horizon for innovative approaches, Martina now applies cutting-edge blockchain technology to her pieces. Each design comes with a scannable chip detailing its materials, sourcing and processes, to provide a fascinating digital life story for each piece.

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Singapore

Natalia is a Textile and Community Artist and Arts Organiser who co-creates with diverse audiences using salvaged materials and storytelling. She is also the co-founder of the Singapore Eco Arts Festival and an active member of Fashion Revolution Singapore.

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An active advocate of sustainability and socially-engaged artmaking, Natalia often uses materials gathered from peer-to-peer freecycling groups, donated by individuals and organisations, and salvaged from the urban landscape. 

In her art facilitation practice, she guides participants to gather inspiration from their heritage and memories to tell stories through textile art - primarily, communal weaving and braiding.

Natalia has worked with prestigious venues such as The Esplanade, National Design Centre, and the iconic Raffles Hotel in Singapore; contemporary hospitality locales such as The Edition Singapore, Figment, and 1880; and counterculture sites such as Peace Centre, The Substation, and 195 Pearl’s Hill Terrace.

Her work is collected around the world, primarily in Singapore, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States. 

Many of her weavings are on permanent display in House Natalia, a conservation shophouse and co-living space in the eclectic Katong-Joo Chiat enclave in Singapore.

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London, UK

Chiara is a Design Researcher and PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art interested in biobased processes for circularity.

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Chiara Tommencioni Pisapia is a designer researcher with a background in fashion knitwear and textiles. Chiara is interested in biobased processes for textiles circularity and interdisciplinary design-science approaches. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the Royal College of Art, London.

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London, UK

Niamh is a Curator, Cultural Programmer and Trash Club Advisory Board member, working within creativity, climate action and community.

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Niamh Tuft is the Climate Action Manager at University of the Arts London. Her role is to coordinate and manage the Climate Action Plan across the university which encompasses our activities in teaching and learning, research, knowledge exchange, community action and operations.

She works with a wide range of stakeholders across the university to implement this strategic plan including an action group of staff and students drawn from all areas of the university and its six world-renowned colleges.

Prior to joining UAL, Niamh was the Global Network Manager at Fashion Revolution, a global movement for a fashion industry that conserves and restores the environment and values people over growth and profit. She worked with voluntary activists and organisations that make up the Fashion Revolution Global Network in over 90 countries and co-developed global programmes for Fashion Revolution Week and Fashion Open Studio campaigns and projects.

Niamh started her career at the British Council in the Architecture, Design, Fashion team where she was a programme manager and led the International Fashion Showcase programme for 7 years.

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London, UK

Marketa Uhlirova is an Art Historian, Director and co-founder of Fashion in Film Festival.

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I am an art historian with an interest in the display, representation and mediation of fashion and dress, especially in the moving image. In 2005 I co-founded the Fashion in Film Festival, the first major exhibition, research and education project to explore the common ground between the worlds of fashion, cinema and art. My film programmes have been hosted by arts venues internationally, including London's Tate Modern, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Barbican and BFI Southbank; Palazzo Grassi in Venice; Danish Film Institute in Copenhagen and Museum of the Moving Image in New York.

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Berlin, Germany

Flyn is a Photographer, an Artist experimenting with 'organic photography', and Hub Host of Trash Club Berlin.

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Flyn Vibert is a photographer and artist experimenting with what they call ‘organic transformations’. That is images made by hand through a series of alternative processes, without the aid of digital software or traditional analog techniques.

Flyn has spent the years since graduating from Central Saint Martins and the London College of Fashion developing a unique style and approach to photography, which involves transforming and re-photographing images through a constantly evolving series of physical processes and interactions.

Their work focuses on the idea of (re)using things and objects that are ignored or discarded, and putting them together in ways not normally applied in an arts context. These vary from more direct interventions such as burning or freezing the image, to combining with found objects and trash, or working with non-traditional materials such as hair gel, nail polish, slime, and other ‘secret formulas’. One reason they refer to themself as a scientist as well as a photographer and artist.

Narrative is very important to Flyn. It is through the process of making that they write their stories and in doing so translate them into photographs.

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London, UK

Navneet is a Fashion Designer and Artist, exploring the area of innovation in upcycling and excess.

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Navneet Virk is a British Asian designer/artist with a professional background in styling, design, and material development. Her employment includes working for independent, commercial and high end luxury brands.

Navneet's personal work explores on the area of innovation in upcycling. Sustainability is at the core of her work, focusing on creating new objects from waste material. Her work explores concepts of excesses within human nature, consumption and how we define value.

Since graduating in 2019 her work has been shown at Bare Fashion Event, due to be featured in Luxiders Magazine and will showcase within the Exhibition ‘Denim – stylish, practical, timeless’ at Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel, Switzerland October 2020 - April 2021.

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London, UK

Dionne Walsh is a writer, curator and visual communicator based in London.

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Dionne Walsh is a writer, curator and visual communicator based in London. As a fashion journalism student at Central Saint Martins, she is interested in storytelling that champions marginalised voices and subversion.

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London, UK + New York, USA

Athena studies MA Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, working between where instinct and intention are one.

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ATHENA Mothership (Athena Yating Wang) is a humanoid spaceship that traverses through time, space, and she ages in between. Everything flows in and out, yet love is the only thing the vessel holds. she is attached to the Earth and will have completed 25 solar orbits by 2023. ATHENA acts within a consciousness zone where instinct and intention are one.

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London, UK

Hanna is a climate-conscious Textile Print Designer, finding new technological approaches to the industry’s impact.

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Hanna Whiteman is a climate-conscious textile print designer, based in London, who is focused on the new and essential field of sustainable textile print. She is driven to find new technological approaches to find solutions for the textile industry’s impact.

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London, UK

Hannah is a Designer and Maker working on creative repurposing, celebrating reuse and circular design.

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Hannah’s work is centred on creative repurposing, celebrating reuse and championing the value of circular design. She works with discarded materials, diverting them from landfill to create handmade, useful and beautiful homeware / accessories / jewellery / garments.

 A creative and conscious design approach stems from the mantra ‘waste not, want not’ that was embedded into daily life growing up on a farm in Devon.

 All pieces are handmade in her East London studio and shaped by the sourced materials; consequently no two products are the same. Her work is for individuals who enjoy pieces that tell a story and seek goods outside mainstream trends.

Member Since: 2024

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London, UK

Tina Wetshi is a co-founder at Colèchi, a research agency and collective based in London.

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Tina Wetshi is a co-founder at Colèchi, a research agency and collective based in London with a mission to humanise fashion through insight and community. Tina's professional journey includes communications at brand agencies Exposure, Karla Otto and Bottega Veneta. She's currently the Events and Marketing Manager at Dazed.

Member Since: 2024

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