‘From Somewhere re-thinks the fashion industry's rubbish, reclaiming and up-cycling as a design solution to an environmental problem’
From Somewhere, recycling since 1997, is a creative sustainable fashion label run by Orsola de Castro and Filippo Ricci. Womenswear collections are made with luxury designer pre-consumer waste - such as proofs, swatches, production off-cuts and end of rolls - up-cycling high-end fashion and textile surplus into beautiful clothes that take into account the balance between consumption and disposal.
Reproducible in large numbers while still retaining elements of the unique, each piece is individually cut from high quality reclaimed fabrics including knitwear, cashmere, cotton shirting, silks, jerseys, tweeds and wovens. The operating principle behind the label is simple: what happens to the fashion’s industry’s production surplus and leftovers at the end of each season?
In October 2008 From Somewhere won the Designer of the Year and Innovation RE:Use award at the RE:Fashion awards. www.fromsomewhere.co.uk
Matilda Lee, Green Pages Editor, The Ecologist