At the forefront of fashion retail innovation, APOC Store is home to a global cohort of disruptive independent designers. Today, the retail platform unveils its latest ingenious project – an exclusive collection of repurposed garments and accessories.
The collection will see some of the platform’s most in-demand upcyclers craft unique pieces that showcase their intricate repurposing techniques, transforming vintage textiles, deadstock materials and pre-loved items into entirely new creations – from garments to home accessories, jewellery, new-wave “it” bags, and even petwear.
The upcycled designs will be released via bi-monthly drops until the end of the year, highlighting designers who are dedicated to upcycling, giving new life to old materials with innovative techniques.
Some of the designers teased include Constanca Entrudo, Lou de Bètoly and Solitude Studios. Below, see more from some of the standout designers teased for the collection’s first drop, available exclusively at APOC Store:
Grace Gui
Brooklyn-based farm-to-fashion based knitwear project Grace Gui is the vision of Chinese-American designer Grace Wang. The project combines the Americana influences in her life – that had previously stunted her self acceptance – and combines them with her introspective resurgence of love for herself and her Chinese background. A sustainable visionary, Wang solely sources from female independent farmers and artisans along with raising her own silkworms and angora rabbit in her Bushwick studio. Her unique felting technique used to create her 1-of-1 and made-to-order garments, from sensual summer dresses to distinctive swimwear sets.
Puer Parasitus
Founded in Copenhagen in 2021, Puer Parasitus is best known for their intricate ability to repurpose a wide array of materials into styling, costume design and one-of-a-kind commissioned pieces. The sculptural brand explores themes of sexuality, parenthood, parasitical tendencies and the maternal bond. All works are unique and hand crafted from second hand sourced textiles by Puer Parasitus in their atelier in Copenhagen, DK.
Ulysse Poulin
Repurposing recycled military gear, Ulysse Poulin offers designs that emphasise utilitarian function. The Montreal-based designer transforms traditional workwear through incorporating sci-fi and dystopian influences paired with the added functionality of visible and hidden pockets. Each piece is hand-dyed and hand-made, ensuring uniqueness in every item.
Julia Bonich
Visual artist Julia Bonich is an expert in transforming leftover and found materials into beautiful, wearable objects. Inspired by our intimate relationship with the bedroom and its ritualised composition, Bonich’s accessories romanticise everyday life – imbued with a baroque Disney aesthetic, inherited from the world of overconsumption and its fantasies. Based in Marseille, she builds domestic artefacts and fragments of the collective unconscious, elevating the anecdotal and the ornamental as emancipatory motifs and timeless witnesses to various eras and conventions.
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