About Us
The Idea.
Creating a sense of reverence for clothing, through care, creative repairs and customisation, while expressing a deeply irreverent sense of humour.
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Not participating in fast fashion by engaging in made to order services and small batch production.
Where it came from.
The Clothing Butcher, went to Georgian College where they got a BFA through Thompson Rivers University and a diploma in pattern drafting from Le Grande Chic Italia.
After finishing school they worked in tailoring where they developed a passion for reworking and repairing damaged clothing.
They also worked in the vintage industry where they saw the amount of waste produced by fast fashion. Many items had small fixable damages, and even more where unusable because they were not cared for correctly.
The waste that the Clothing Butcher witnessed made them increasingly passionate about changing the way people interact with their clothes and thus Clothing Butcher was born.
Since their emerging in March of 2020, Clothing Butcher has appeared in various shows, The Junction Arts Market, and on consignment at Made You Look.
During this time they been building their skill set, artistic voice and business model for the rerelease of Clothing Butcher as a an artistic voice dedicated to changing the way we think about our clothing and freeing themselves from a capitalistic volume based business model.
Encouraging a DIY mind set and promoting creative problem solving to extend and elevate second hand and damaged clothing instead of buying new clothes every season and feeding into the fast fashion industry that is poisoning our planet through over productions and waste.
