Fabrics we trust

What are designer cast-off stocks? 

They are leftover fabrics and materials from the bigger brands and manufacturing process that didn't get to be used and are sitting in the store room waiting for some love, eventually they'll have to go to landfill. Our goal is to rescue as much of these "deadstock" fabrics as we can and give them a second life - use them as trims, come up with a design that suits the fabric.. instead of them ended up in landfill sites. They usually ended up looking much better than it sounds. 

Organic cotton is grown WITHOUT anysynthetic pesticides. Most of the organic cotton are grown in China and Turkey. Our current supply chain is based in China with one of Patagonia's supplier. Our aim is to support GOTS certified fair trade sustainable farmers to do their best to support this eco system without harming the earth.

Organic cotton is one of the finest and gentle on sensitive skin. What's not to love about a soft garment created with these values. They are certainly made to last.

Some call it viscose, others use the word rayon. Whatever name you know it by, there’s one thing we can all agree on: this soft, drapey fabric is not only luxurious against the skin, but inherently better for the environment than its man-made counterparts. It’s made from the wood pulp of perennial trees like pine, beech and eucalyptus, as well as sugar cane, soy and bamboo. But despite the fact that it’s derived from plants and so not toxic, viscose has received an unfairly bad reputation. This is mainly due to the fact that it still has a lot of same production process as synthetic fabrics.

Some manufacturers we work with uses 100% renewable energy to minimise carbon emissions.
Currently all viscose used in our designs are made with designer dead stocks. 

Take them out of our ocean please!! In recent years, we’ve been working with our PET recycling partners to turn PET bottles into clothing. We found some clever way to utilise this recycled material is to blend it with organic fibres such as Hemp and organic linen, silk. By marrying these ingredients strategically, we can increase the life of these fabrics, it lasts more washes and creases less. Win Win. 

Of course we'll continue to find new ways of incorporating this innovative recycling avenue into our designs. Watch this space!

One of our favourite fabric to use. Tencel is manufactured from Eucalyptus trees, which grow fast on low grade land. 

You’ll find Tencel lyocell used mostly in place of cellulose fibers which have been regenerated like rayon and viscose. This creates an ultimately super-strong and highly durable fabric. 

Tencel production uses 80% less water compare to cotton. We're currently working with suppliers use 100% renewable energy. 

You get conventional or mulberry silk and then you get ethical silk. The former makes use of cruel farming methods - boiling the live pupae of the worm only to remove its precious unbroken silk strand.

Then there is the ethical alternative, which lets the silk worm peacefully live out its life. As the worm leaves its cocoon though, the strand of silk tends to break, leaving its texture not as smooth or shiny as the unbroken strand removed in ‘cruel’ farming. 

Unfortunately there are little to none production left for ethical silk left in the world. Most silk is mass produced in the first method.

The other method is what we believe the best option at the moment - is Recycled Silk. Our supplier is an expert in recycled fabric and we're lucky to have found a partner who invest so much in this recycling technology. P.S. They also use 70% of renewable energy in the production process. WIN.