RE:Fashion Awards winners announced at glamorous night of celebs and celebration

November 14, 2008 by greenmystyle 

RE:Fashion Designer of the Year Award

WINNER: From Somewhere
These recycling heroes – Orsola de Castro and  turn remnants and cast-offs from the cutting-room floor into forward-thinking pieces to turn heads in.
Fromsomewhere.co.uk.  Orsola is also curator of groundbreaking Estethica, the ethical fashion area at London Fashion Week.

People Tree
Founder Safia Minney took fuddy-duddy ideas about ethical fashion and turned them upside down to prove ethical can be fashionable. Getting People Tree stocked in Topshop was arguably the turning point that put fair trade fashion on the map.
www.peopletree.co.uk

Junky Styling
This London-based duo has gone from strength to strength in the last decade and are up for two awards. Resuscitating second-hand clothes into new and unique garments is Junky Styling’s forte. The stunning red dress pictured here is by Junky Styling.
www.junkystyling.co.uk/

New RE:Designer of the Year Award

WINNER: Izzy Lane
Animals, great clothes and Britain are her triple loves in life, so Izzy saves unwanted sheep in a sanctuary and uses traditional, long-forgotten methods of production to make luxurious fleece and cashmere garments.
Izzylane.com

Mark Liu
Graduated from Central St. Martins and launched his Zero Waste collection in 2007 to push sustainable fashion design forward. His style is clean-cut style yet feminine, and his unique cutting techniques ensure waste is cut down to a mimimum.
Markliu.co.uk

Goodone
Saving clothes from landfill and producing edgy, one-off pieces is Goodone’s specialism. Their mission is to up-cycle clothes, meaning to create pieces that don’t look recycled, just brand new items from old.
Goodone.co.uk/

Fifi Bijoux
Luxury ethical jewellery, supporting gold mining without the suffering.
Fifi Bijoux

Next page: The hotly contested RE:Use award for recycled and re-used fashion

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