Toronto-based designer Andrew Won recently released the first product for his upcycled collection with outdoor apparel specialists Arc’teryx. The project coincides with the opening of Arc’teryx Toronto’s first Care and Repair Service center to restore and reuse apparel garments. This first release sees tissue box covers made from “worn beyond optimum” Arc’teryx items to help divert waste from landfills.
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The tissue boxes appear in one of four colors, each with paneled construction made from used jackets. Andrew Won and Arc’teryx successfully preserved original labels and GORE-TEX branding, as well as chest zippers, velcro straps, and grommets. Further, each original detail features as a core material of the durably designed cover. According to Won, all items were made from “waste bound GORE-TEX jackets that showed signs of age, poor condition, and delamination”. Additionally, Won will hold a workshop focusing on circularity design, methods of upcycling, and sustainability. All proceeds from the capsule will benefit HanVoice Canada, a group working to improve human rights conditions in North Korea.
We’ll keep you tapped in to any future updates from Andrew Won and Arc’teryx. Lastly, for more of the latest in design, The Sleeve House Sees Two Prisms Join in the Hudson Valley.
