Eco Fashion Weekend 2024
Alternative Fashion Showcase
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AYESHA collaborates with heritage crafts artisans to create responsibly-made joyful fashion, home and gifting products. The brand focuses on creating inclusive employment opportunities, sustaining culture and promoting indigenous textile techniques, while adhering to small-batch production with a low carbon footprint.
Founder Ayesha Kohli, is on a mission of demystifying the connections between handmade crafts, the environment, society and the individual for a cleaner and calmer world.
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Commenhers is a sustainable fashion brand that embraces creativity by transforming textile waste into upcycled apparel and accessories through the art of upcycling.
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OliveAnkara transcends being just a slow fashion brand, embodying curiosity and joy while celebrating the richness of diversity in the world. With a resolute mission to create joyful, vibrant, and meticulously handcrafted designs inspired by traditional African fashion, the brand places a paramount focus on quality and uniqueness over mass production. By producing limited pieces in limited quantities, OliveAnkara consciously preserves resources and avoids wasteful practices. Each meticulously handmade garment is thus rendered utterly unique, ensuring that those who wear them possess something truly one-of-a-kind.
This distinctive fusion of African fabrics with Italian fashion results in creations that elegantly cater to women of all colors, further promoting inclusivity. OliveAnkara's commitment to providing a wearable expression of cultural diversity and individuality makes their brand truly exceptional and appealing to a wide range of discerning customers.
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Syne Studio was created as a reply and protest to the fashion industry. Starting by sourcing for discarded kimonos directly from Japan, they begin restoring broken pieces, reviving pieces of tradition passed down through generations. This translated into a brand that seeks to enhance the latent potential of existing materials from multiple industries, bridging the gap between sustainability and fashion.
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Su by Hand is a sustainable slow fashion label inspired by Nature. Set up by founder and designer Supei Ho, each design is crafted with attention to quality, premium fabrics and timeless styling. From plant dyes to artisanal techniques, all styles are available on a small-batch basis only. Nature and emotions inspire our aesthetic; sustainability shapes our brand ethos.
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Sui means needle in Hindi. Based in India and Singapore, we craft conscious, versatile clothing for women. The needle for us represents connection, just as the needle connects the thread to a piece of fabric, crafting it into a beautiful piece of clothing, our goal at SUI is to connect the threads of nature with fashion.
We aim to bring comfortable, versatile silhouettes to womens’ day to day journeys and help introduce slow fashion to their wardrobes. At SUI, we want to make it simple for you to make slow fashion a part of your life.
The Fashion Pulpit
The Fashion Pulpit is a social enterprise, a circular fashion hub that aims to advance sustainable thinking and practices through our four branches: swapping, upcycling, thrifting, and broadening narratives with education. In the past 5 years, we have collected over 350,000 fashion items (clothes, bags, shoes, and accessories) and served over 6000 swap members. Clothes-swapping fills a gap in the fashion industry’s road to decarbonization.
We would argue that by running a swap shop and promoting better practices with clothing consumption, The Fashion Pulpit has been contributing to the road to -1.5°C and will only continue to. Our efforts and expertise in expanding and extending clothing lifespan dovetail with Singapore’s sustainable development strategies and are relevant to the larger fashion and sustainability landscape.
Right now, the fashion industry needs urgent reinterpretation and re-imagination. Clothes-swapping enables an alternative system to flourish: one where value is created and captured by an activity that keeps clothing in circulation longer.
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Sera, aka “The Reoutfitter” is an ex-corporate fashion buyer with over 17 years of experience across global fashion hubs like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and now turned personal stylist. Wanting to use her knowledge of the industry to help women directly through styling while promoting more sustainable shopping habits, she created The Reoutfitter in 2021 which offers wholistic, sustainably minded styling services and helps to offload her client’s clothing excess through The Reoutfitter Shop.
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The Prefecture is a bespoke tropical tailor using the finest quality materials such as linen, bamboo, recycled cotton, and jute. With an atelier at 100 Duxton, the unique concept promotes, tropical dressing with an unequivocal sense of masculinity and confidence.
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THER YANG – an independent fashion designer label which offers innovative new classics while communicating social-cultural values.
THER YANG aims to shed light and bring awareness on social phenomenonsthrough conceptual ideas, minimal designs and new fabrics. THER YANG hopes to bring awareness through design concepts to reach people who are seeking for the feeling and meaning behind the design, in order to understand and get connection with the ideas.
“THER” – Their without I. Adapting the Buddhism philosophy of anātman, or “non-self”, THER YANG aspires to defy societal norms and combat social issues as a community of like-minded individuals.