Now, once we have your attention, we’ll tell you how sales shopping is killing the planet (and why we do not practice it). The end-of-the-year sales occur around the same time each year, retailers offering discounts on items associated with the season or turning unsold or off-season stock into cash to make room for new. The end-of the year sales will then turn into New Year sales, then Valentine’s Day sales, Easter sales and so on. For retailers, it is an easy way to make money via impulse or unplanned buying. That said, sales shopping comes with several costs to the consumers but more importantly, to our environment and planet. Throwaway culture It is pretty obvious that the more we...
Reet Aus, Harri Moora, Markus Vihma, Reimo Unt, Marko Kiisa and Sneha Kapur have compiled a research paper summarizing the results of a more than 5-year practice-led study on the use of upcycling design and production methods in garment mass production. The efficiency of upcycling design approach is described by analysing the generation and potential use of various types of fabric leftovers from garment manufacturing. The results of this research show that depending on the size of the factory the fabric leftovers and textile waste generated in garment production ranges from 25–40% of the total fabric used. Experiments show that 50% of that material can be upcycled into new garments and for some types of leftover—mainly spreading loss and excess...
We invited Tõnis over one later November afternoon to take photos of his upcycled “The Kid” up-shirt collection, which was produced some time ago for his grow-up comedy: Once the pictures were taken and the laughter in our showroom had subsided, we sat down with Tõnis to talk about being a man, a son and a father. We live in a time where there is a lot of talk about gender roles, even the lack of gender, and neutrality. How do you see your role as a man in today's society? As a person, I am probably quite liberal on certain topics and again rather conservative on others. It seems to me that I am inclined towards conservatism in this...
We are looking for a highly driven, ambitious and environment motivated individual to join the Reet Aus team in Tallinn, Telliskivi Creative City. PROFILE The role of the sales manager is to make the trade flourish! The sales manager makes sure that the goods arriving from our certified factories are correctly received, the new orders reach the recipients (both private and business customers) & the sales work in a customer-friendly way. The sales manager might sometimes sell the goods themselves, place orders in the online store, track inventory, work on the display of the store but in general, the sales manager is responsible for customer service and has complete freedom to use the help of our shop assistants. RESPONSIBILITY Managing...
Launching the collaboration between Reet AusTM and Japan Blue that has led to jeans upcycled from some of the best denim in the world, designed in Estonia, produced in Japan.
Briefly about the product. Straight-cut. Grey. Raw denim. They're robust. Real. True to their origin. Think cowboys in Japanese countryside. Think Land Rover Defender. Think steak, raw and served with pepper and salt. No useless add-ons. Just a perfect pair of jeans, as God (or Reet) intended. SHOP here.
