Citizen Brooklyn

Brooklyn based brand, Bergwerk, is setting the tone for a more eco-friendly fashion industry with its environmentally positive approach of scouring the city to find recyclable materials that can be magically transformed into a completely unique garment.

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For the past decade Haygarth has collaged toys, auto parts, and even eye glass parts into luxurious light fixtures that add new significance to overlooked objects.

We love seeing inspired alternatives to holiday evergreens, so to bring an extra bit of eco-cheer to the holiday season we’ve rounded up some of the wackiest manmade trees built from bottles, bikes, and even shopping carts!

Merging European and African influences, Adèle Dejak’s designs use reclaimed and recycled materials to create pieces that benefit local artisans.

Dutch company Star Sock to produce socks made out of recycled fishing nets.

“I use whatever I think will work. I could probably walk outside right now and find something that I could and would use to create a clock. I use old vinyl records, river rocks, dominoes, small slices of oak, vintage doilies, embroidered pieces and lots and lots of magazine pages which I turn into beads and such,”