New Collection Reveals Hidden Treasures of Ghana’s Marketplace: A Tribute to Ingenuity
The Vestiaire Collective is known primarily as a secondhand luxury marketplace. However, it recently launched an exclusive clothing collection in partnership with The Or Foundation.
This collection is 100% upcycled and features the accomplishments of Ghanaian designers while also spotlighting the organization, whose mission is to “identify and manifest alternatives to the dominant model of fashion,” according to the foundation’s website.
Consumers can purchase a range of clothing items, including varsity jackets with hand-painted details, patched jeans, and crocheted hobo bags. By purchasing an item from this collection, you are extending the life of clothing items already in existence and celebrating the work of independent artisans.
As detailed by Trend Hunter, the sales will benefit both the designers and The Or Foundation’s Secondhand Solidarity Fund.
“The capsule is a testament to the ingenuity of upcycling,” the Trend Hunter wrote.
The Or Foundation is based in Accra, Ghana, which is home to Kantamanto, the largest secondhand clothing market in the world. Beyond saving thousands of pounds of scraps from the marketplace and upcycling them into new clothing items, the foundation also offers relief funds after climate disasters, analyzes water and air samples to measure pollution, hauls away plastic waste from Accra’s beaches, fights for fair wages, and offers sustainability education.
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