Fashion Revolution Open Studio

Fashion Open Studio is Fashion Revolution’s showcasing and mentoring initiative since 2017. Through exhibitions, presentations, talks, and workshops with emerging designers, established trailblazers and major players, we celebrate the people, products and processes behind our clothes.

When designers open up their studios to the public it creates a space for honest conversation, transparency and accountability. It also gives designers an opportunity to share their innovative and creative solutions to some of the urgent social and environmental challenges facing the industry today.

Fashion Open Studio highlights designers who are actively working to find solutions to the key challenges facing them, from tackling studio waste to responsible production and sourcing or finding ways to integrate their businesses with social enterprise initiatives for a mindful, more purposeful industry.

Atlas of Sustainable Colours

A startup on the mission to bring transparency to textile dyeing through storytelling and mapping of innovative solutions. Driven by curiosity about possibilities of colour creation which doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, we stir the change towards a more sustainable and regenerative fashion by connecting local colour makers with partners.

Birdsong

We are an award winning and Bcorp certified social enterprise, that supports a network of marginalised women across East London. Our products and supply chain meet the highest standards of social and environmental performance, so you can too.

Winner of Marie Claire’s ‘Best Ethical Fashion Brand’ and winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development 2022.

CORACircle

CORAcircle is a circular economy project that offers families with newborns the opportunity to rent sustainable clothes. You can rent clothes from birth to the first year of life of your baby. Choose your box – new or already used – with 5, 13 or 25 pieces. Wear, return, and we sanitise and put back into circulation.

Codressing

Codressing is a leasing service for women to rent designer clothes and wedding dresses with a purchase option. Women and brands can rent out their own items.

Ebony Seed

Ebony Seed aims to showcase and promote our new RNA (Recirculate Not Accumulate) services, where we will show the process from start to finish with our designers accompanied by their collections.

Evamoso

Evasomo is a women’s sustainable activewear brand, making simple and understated crossover pieces created with their environmental footprint in mind. They believe in slow conscious consumption, so don’t offer seasonal collections and only produce new items based on customer feedback and demand. Since launching in February 2019, Evasomo has been accredited with an Eco-Age Brandmark and are about to launch a takeback scheme to fully recycle all end-of-life pieces.

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Jump the Hedges

Jump The Hedges is a sustainable design studio based in Belfast in the north of Ireland. The studio creates bags and garments using locally sourced recycled materials and European sourced regenerative materials. Alongside this the studio works with schools and community groups leading workshops on environmentalism and sustainability.

Loom

Loom connects you with local designers to make custom made and totally bespoke clothes. Create your dream wardrobe by upcycling your old clothes or using the latest in sustainable textile technology.

Monkind

MONKIND is a socially responsible family-run Berlin brand founded in 2014. Valeria – the designer in the family – makes simple, bold, minimal clothing for kids and adults that lasts and can be passed on to future generations. We always use GOTS-certified organic or innovative and sustainable materials.

Nilmore

An ethical fashion brand working towards circularity with a cradle-to-cradle project through the rental, resell and recycling of garments.

One Essentials

Radical change only comes from radical action. And that’s what the fashion industry needs. So we’re changing the system, literally from the bottom up. Starting with the most dispoable items in our wardrobe – underwear. This time creating it to be disposable.

Paloma Wool

Paloma wool is a project about getting dressed and about space or ideas that are created around the act of getting dressed.

R-Coat

R-Coat, community-based project and brand to reduce waste. We transform broken umbrellas collected by the community into new pieces: the canopies into high-quality fashion garments and accessories and the metal frames into beautiful jewellery.

SICA

SICA’s mission is to transform the world by nourishing people and innovating craft’s knowledge for a positive impact on the planet. SICA works closely with craftspeople, understanding their traditional knowledge and techniques, and co-developing their skills to produce social, environmental and culturally sustainable bags and home accessories.

Saska London

Saska London is a modular fashion brand, offering customers a responsible and modern way to dress. Designed with longevity in mind, the collection is designed for a new conscious consumer that demands practicality and is looking for fashion that extends beyond a singular way of wear. Saska London believes that the fashion industry can embrace sustainability and change for the better, and are currently working on their first collection.

Solostuecke

The smartest loop – Piloting smart loop collaborations between design for disassembly stakeholders in one value chain. As a consortium we are piloting smart loop collaborations between design for disassembly stakeholders in one value chain, showcasing our vision of a circular business eco-system. @resortecs and @studio_ama_

Studio Sarmite

Studio Sarmite is a natural materials design and research studio. The studio focuses on transforming industry waste and various byproducts into new high-quality materials that can be brought back to the market. Studio Sarmite is developing a unique natural dyeing process to give a second life to our clothes, to tackle the growing amount of textile waste and offer an innovative way to turn post-consumer textile fibres into a high-quality biotextile. Studio Sarmite has participated in exhibitions, talks and fairs worldwide, such as Dutch Design Week, Milan Design Week and London Design Week, and won the New Material Award during Shanghai Design Week.

The Patchwork Family

Creating up-cycled clothing and enabling other designers to up-cycle too. The Patchwork Family is a collective of emerging designers, embracing the individuality of each designer. The goal is to establish an international platform, that connects designers, and enables them to produce circularly, through resource and knowledge sharing. Designers in the Family enjoy full artistic freedom, as long as ecological and circular production requirements are met. Patchwork Family must create the opportunity to produce and sell small collections for start up designers and students.

Tizz & Tonic

We are an independent women’s intimates brand kicking the norms (quite literally) in the butt. We combine bold colours with delightful prints, in sizes XXS-XXL. We make plant-based basics with a TWIST.

Planet of the Grapes

Planet of the Grapes was formed by two long term fashion insiders, Samantha Mureau and Silva Hrabar-Owens, who have joined forces with a mission to clean up the fashion industry. They have developed planet respectful grape leathers made from the grapes that are leftover after being pressed for the Provençal wines in Samantha’s local South of France vineyards. The discarded grapes are collected, air dried and then transformed into grape leathers with material scientists. Silva is the first designer to work with the grape leather and to have them handmade, in the UK, into her signature luxury handbags.