Trashion hasn’t always been Outi Pyys passion. In fact, as a child, this quick-witted woman has been a shy, mathematically orientated girl who wanted to be a pilot. It’s a foggy, damp day in Helsinki. The bright lights of Remake EkoDesign atelier shine on the grey street. It looks like any minute now the dark […]
There are only a few who have enough skills to make clothes from already existing clothes. Paula Malleus, the founder of MEM by Paula Malleus, is one of them. She has the skills and the passion to create a completely unique style from post consumer waste. As said before, textile waste is a huge problem, which […]
There she was. Standing at the huge sorting centre of Fida, a charity organization in Finland. The space was filled with used clothes and other recycled textiles. “There’s something seriously wrong with this system”, thought Paula Malleus, the founder of Remake EkoDesign and MEM. And became the pioneer of post consumer waste fashion, her collection would […]