Reinvented Wear

Nothing here began with new material.

Shirts, hats, skirts, coats—clothing built or transformed from what already existed. Some pieces start from scratch, made entirely from found and reclaimed materials. Others begin as garments with a stain, a hole, or a flaw and are altered until the problem disappears into the design. A fast fashion top and a designer shirt tear the same way too—the difference is that fast fashion, reclaimed and reworked, can end up looking more custom than it ever did off the rack.

Fade to Green: A fast fashion shirt reworked with scraps of hand-dyed fabric, stitched across the font in a scattered pattern of rectangles and L-shapes. What started as a plain, disposable top becomes something one-of-a-kind--proof that reclaimed ma

Fade to Green: A fast fashion shirt reworked with scraps of hand-dyed fabric, stitched across the font in a scattered pattern of rectangles and L-shapes. What started as a plain, disposable top becomes something one-of-a-kind--proof that reclaimed material can look more custom than anything off the reck.