PREVIOUS COLLECTIONS + REUSE STRATEGIES
Creative reuse extends beyond the transformation of waste into a new textile. It also considers how materials, tools, machinery and processes can be reimagined and reused in different contexts, with each application opening up further possibilities. Material Journeys follows these connections, exploring how materials take on different roles, uses and meanings over time. These journeys are not always planned or linear; they emerge through experimentation, everyday studio activities and collaborations across disciplines. Together, they reflect an upcycling systems approach in which creative reuse is not a single stage or outcome, but a way of working across the whole system. Each journey considers not only what a material can become, but how the methods, tools and resources involved in its transformation can also find new applications.
Collections
A collection built from off cuts captured over a 5 year period from our signature hosiery textile collections in contrast with undyed hosiery. Waste from this collection was composed from Canadian manufacturing waste from Montreal. To view more examples from our archive visit Previous Collections.
Installation
This work began as a way to organize and store hand-dyed waste hosiery before it was deconstructed, printed and further transformed into a new textile. The area where this existed in the studio became a natural meeting point with visitors and clients as we discussed the process. It quickly became a backdrop for photoshoots and a place where clients wanted their photo taken with their new purchases. What started out as an organizational tool became an installation that has since been exhibited internationally as a large-scale textile surface and sculpture, creating awareness of both textile waste and our signature textile upcycling process.
Runway
Our collections have been showcased at various international fashion weeks including Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, London and New York. Each invitation has offered an opportunity to bring our work to new audiences and present our approach to textile reuse and re-making on the runway. The images gathered here represent a selection of these occasions, acknowledging the invitations we have received rather than providing a complete record of every show and presentation on our website.
Brand Partnership with Gildan acquiring with their Montreal mill until is closed production in 2019.
Collaborations
We have partnered companies such as Gildan and Hanes acquiring their manufacturing waste for our previous hosiery collection in addition to working with smaller hosiery manufacturers in Montreal, Canada and North Carolina, USA.
