DIMEJI ILORI

The ability to create consciously and sustainably, quality beautiful and luxurious pieces from discarded treasures becomes very fascinating. “To me the goal as never been to have 1,000 garments on sales, it is more about taking 1,000 shirts off the mountain of discarded forgotten treasures and creating 100 beautiful well made garments from it”.

For this collection the process captures the essential gesture of fashion: breaking up what now exists, then slowly, tenderly reassembling the pieces into something beautiful and unlike what came before. The approach is working with clothes to make new clothes.
With unique points of difference, basic transformation Concepts and fabric manipulation techniques like material matching, logo branding, pattern cut-out, bleaching and adding or removal of details.
To encourage a more sustainable way of working, only limited quantities are made and the fabrics cannot be resourced which makes each piece unique to the individual.