Nothing New

Everything from here

This collection is founded on a fabric project exploring locality and design community collaboration, distance.

Red hot sun 

White cold fear

Watching our world ending in real time.

How do we respond to the times we live in?

How do we design while watching our world collapse?

No ‘virgin resource’

We have aimed to present pieces which contain ‘nothing new.’

In a world of preservation emergency, it seems impossible to constantly shift our focus to the ‘new’. In an act of preservation, each fabric we have used has come from studios across greater london. Re-examining what we already have as a gateway to a ‘new’ new whilst exploring locality through fabric sourcing. can looking backwards become a new type of going forward.

We have used the action of making a collection as an opportunity to reconsider leftovers, excess or waste as treasure. Is it possible to make an entire collection and its subsequent production from fabrics which are already here and are not being used? In a city full of creative spaces can we cumulatively use these ‘deadstocks’ to make a collection entirely from ‘everything from here?’ Can we use collaboration, communication and exchange as a fabric sourcing asset?

Exploring locality in terms of raw material, distance and what is already in existence.

Reaching out to various studios across the city we collaborated, communicated and combined to source materials which were no longer in use, were surplus, excess, from past seasons, or ‘deadstock’ to see that if within the context of a different space and with careful editing we could find a use for them.

Making ‘old’ new again whilst using nothing new as much as possible.

Each of these styles will be sold as part of a numbered limited edition.

Wide bands, stripe across loose pyjama forms in reclaimed silks and linens.

Diagonal patchworks in various blue cottons hues, each accumulated from a series of past seasons. Ruched bras made with organic cotton and natural rubber elastics, stretch with tension. Draped forms skim the body in zero waste and less waste pattern cutting techniques. Worried, wobbly, wiggling lines, both slot together and fall apart simultaneously.

Half and half garments, different on the back and the front or just sliced straight down the middle, allow for production quantities.

Quilted jackets stuffed with silk organza, the off cuts from the cutting out process of our previous SS20 production which were saved for a new purpose.

Hoop, stick, ball, interchangeable modular earpieces, handmade in reclaimed solid silver, symbolically ‘cross out’ and ‘block out’ the sound of our right wing politics.

As we continue to see design as a problem solving and solution based endeavour we aim to use it for both a vehicle to solve and to question inherent issues of designing during this time of environmental crisis. Turning our backs on virgin synthetics (no zips, no plastic buttons, no polyester elastics etc) and with an increased outlook on the reuse of what is already in existence, placing our design within a new framework of making and selling.

Components we were, as yet, unable to source reclaimed and will have to buy new for production: bias binding, natural corozo nut buttons, organic cotton and natural rubber elastic.

How can we begin to evolve from sustainability minded design to design with regenerative outcome?