Rent what you like; buy what you really love. Thekla Wilkening has long been aware that renting is the new way to buy. Since 2019, the co-founder of the clothing store, Germany’s first fashion rental concept, has been bringing her expertise in borrowed clothing to her project, Stay Awhile.
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Hanna Greis takes a contemporary approach with her brand, SETERY. Instead of launching an XL collection, she focuses on a smaller version: the capsule wardrobe. With only ten pieces, she wants to make mornings easier for business women. The Kickstarter campaign will start in spring 2020.
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RE-BELLO was the first fashion label “Made in Italy” to address concepts such as responsibility and innovation by combining style, high quality design and fashion with respect for environmental issues. Even years after its foundation, the brand continues to show that sustainable + minimalist can be a successful concept.
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Fairness, transparency and zero waste are the principles of Maria Vargas’ label located in Berlin, producing contemporary fashion from leftovers since 2013. This not only reduces the waste within the textile industry, but also leads to highly limited, great individual pieces at an affordable price.
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After jobs at i.a. Comma, s.Oliver and Daniel Hechter, it was clear to Julia Ickert that with her knowledge and competence she could also found a label according to her taste. Wonderfully feminine and wonderfully lots of color, maximum quality, with sophisticated cuts, timelessly elegant, always something special and above all sustainable. Because Julia Ickert cannot and does not want to support conventional production. The German from Kazakhstan has been on the market with her ultra-feminine Nina Rein collection since the beginning of 2018.
Julia Ickert cannot and does not want to support conventional fashion anymore
Clean, minimalist favorite pieces such as the classic white, perfectly fitting (ladies!) Suit (speaking of color: it’s also available in signal red, of course), sheath dresses with artistic box pleats, narrow cigarette pants with refined, graphic patterns, uniform-inspired maxi dresses in gently flowing sky blue. This is Nina Rein and here the love is in the details.
What would Julia Ickert do differently with her own label?
The principles of her own label are therefore the exclusive use of natural materials, resource-saving production and fair working conditions.
Production by Nina Rein
The manufacturing of Julia Ickert is at a Lithuanian company that meets the GOTS requirements but does not have the certificate from an economic point of view. Her knitwear is produced by a German GOTS-certified company. The denim pieces are made in Tunisia by a sustainable company. Nina Rein works exclusively with suppliers who respect the environment and protect it with regard to water, energy consumption and use of chemicals.
#byebyeplastic
Only natural materials are used for the collections. She uses certified materials, some of them GOTS and from controlled organic cultivation or controlled animal husbandry. The viscose comes from the Austrian manufacturer Lenzing. Julia Ickert also avoids 100 percent plastic when it comes to ingredients such as the buttons. She is looking for good solutions for many other ingredients, because sustainability is not a status. Sustainability is one way and Julia Ickert follows it consistently, if possible …
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LIEBLINGSTEIL
Gudrun Weber is from the northern part of the Black Forest. With her studio, she landed at Simssee in Bavaria.
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“We are in an exciting time of upheaval. Both in the fashion industry in general and with the realignment of the Lana line in particular.
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The fact that eco-fashion is as sustainable as possible, but has to look like it 0.0, is largely due to the commitment of Claudia Lanius.
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