Andrea Smith, Kat Rose, Siam Circle and Tigra Tigra are revitalizing preloved garments and textiles, turning them into covetable custom pieces.
motifs that make up the brand’s collection of joy-evoking pieces are heavily influenced by the Indian way of“It’s about finding creative, low-cost, efficient solutions — making something work with what is available,” Bailey says.
Tigra Tigra’s garments are comprised of 60% deadstock materials, while the rest of the fabrics are made using low-impact, traditional weaving techniques that date back to the Ottoman Empire. Her current collection features a hand-loomed linen-silk dress dyed with natural tea stain and finished with fish and sun appliqué, trousers made from cottons that are colored by local dye masters and hand-woven shoulder bags made entirely from recycled fabrics — all crafted in India.
, prefers a purpose-built, tailor-made way of making clothing: “Every single piece has unique detail, no two pieces are exactly alike. For me, this is a better way of doing things.”Siam Circle . Like Bailey, Mariuka spent years working alongside textile experts and observing new ways of reusing fabrics. She founded Siam Circle in 2019, after working for an advertising agency in Singapore and traveling around Southeast Asia, where she witnessed creative solutioning for an overabundance of clothing. “I was discovering secondhand clothing shops and learned that Thailand is the world’s biggest importer of used clothing,” Mariuka, who splits her time between LA and Bangkok, explains.
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