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Profession / role:: CEO, Creative Director

Company / organisation:: Worn Again, Anti-Apathy, RE:Fashion

Website (if you have one):: www.wornagain.co.uk, www.antiapathy.org, www.refashionawards.org

My primary role in relation to fashion is:: Other

I am looking to discover or buy: manufacturing in the UK, pre and post consumer and corporate waste

About me / About business or organisation:: Too little time to get elaborate about me. These web sites define my being: www.antiapathy.org, www.thenag.net, www.wornagain.co.uk, www.refashionawards.org.

Career history / Company history:: Former film maker turned 'doing something useful and exciting with my life' as a career title.

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The real costs of upcycling and manufacturing in the UK

Posted on April 5, 2009 at 16:02 0 Comments 0 Likes

We at Worn Again have set out the ambitious vision of encouraging a shift in manufacturing back to the UK by moving our production of upcycled products close to home after our beginnings in China and later to Portugal.

After an enlightening journey visiting what used to be a thriving hub of manufacturing in the UK, in Coventry and Manchester, I'm left musing the following and pondering solutions...

Fact number one. 'Upcycling' or making products out of disused materials… Continue