Empathising

In order to bring this idea to life, we started with “empathizing”. We talked and spent time with independent designers and tailors, to understand their working needs and problems. They all were indeed eager to contribute to fabric recycling and they would find extremely helpful the first-hand textile exchange, as the traditional market’s fabric supplying is rather time consuming and more expensive. Then, in order to get feedback from more popular designers and professionals, we messaged a few experts via facebook and email.

At the beginning this process was extremely hard, as almost no one replied to us. But fortunately after a lot of research we got a surprisingly positive feedback from many professionals such as Jojo Blanc(Iwanna Mauragani), Razzmatazz, LuHa interior design, M.K.E textiles and Young and Thirsty.

We were also very glad to get a reply from the upcoming shoe designer Stathis Samantas, who was very interested in our idea and was happy to invite us to his new store’s grand opening.