Every item in The Studio is brand-new, but made with leftover fabrics Cohen has stockpiled over the years.
? Only his earliest fans will recognize the flaming roses from one of his very first collections. Cohen isn’t reissuing his “greatest hits” or bringing back his favorite textiles, though, nor is he selling old samples. Every item you see here is brand-new, but was made with leftover fabrics Cohen has stockpiled over the years.
It marks a new step toward sustainability and zero-waste design for Cohen and his business partner, Sarah Leff. Since picking up theFashion Fund, they’ve been taking a closer look at their carbon footprint. As a small New York label, they thought their impact was small—and relative to a global brand, it is. But they quickly realized they were creating a ton of waste, particularly with unused textiles.
The idea to repurpose it all into new garments was a no-brainer. In some cases, there was enough fabric to create a handful of dresses or shirts, while other garments feature a rainbow of little scraps patchworked together. A skirt that looks like tweed is actually tiny strips of leftover fabric woven together at Weaving Hand, a Brooklyn-based healing arts center where disabled adults practice their developmental skills.
On that note, the capsule has turned out to be a win-win-win for Cohen and Leff: It creates opportunities to get creative and reinterpret past textiles; it diverts fabrics from landfills and makes use of what they already have; and, importantly, it’s good for their bottom line. “We were throwing money away,” Leff says. “We looked back at our Fall 2018 production, and for one of our best-selling dresses, we lost over $14,000 on leftover fabric that was just thrown out.
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