Repair Remix & Rewear Events | June 16 - June 22
Weekly roundup of NYC-based events & resources for repairing, remixing / upcycling, and rewearing your clothes!
Hey from 5 hours in the future (aka London). It does feel a bit like the future of circular & sustainable fashion here compared to the US… not least because of the strong upcycling scene here! I realized I follow a bunch of London-based upcycled fashion platforms that I’d love to connect with while in town:
Alterist Marketplace - a curation of independent upcycled fashion brands
I’m excited to check out their upcoming pop-up @ Camden Open Air Gallery later this week, feat. workshops with Clara Chu, [Nju] :The Sophist, and Geo Knits Slow.
LOOM App - connects customers with 100+ designers to redesign their clothes
Fashion District London - an innovation hub for sustainable fashion.
Sad I just missed their festival in early June dedicated to sustainable, circular and regenerative fashion, featuring a bunch of fellow upcycled brands I’d love to meet.
&&& London friends - if you know of anyone else in the upcycling space here that I should know, lmk!
Repair Remix & Rewear: Featured Events
🍬 = budget-friendly events ($15 and under)
This week in NYC (& virtual)
6/17 - Mimi Plange: Freeform Needle Felting - 9pm (NoHo, Manhattan)
6/18 - 🍬 Fabscrap Book Club: “Consumed” by Aja Barber - 12 noon ET (Virtual)
6/19 - Live Zoom Workshop: Swiss Darning with Collingwood-Norris - 2pm ET (Virtual)
6/19 - 6/22 - TATTER SCRAPTACULAR Scrap Sale & Library Benefit - Multiple times (Fort Greene, Brooklyn)
6/21 -🍬 Lagoon 4 Year Anniversary Bash (inc. interactive garment painting w/ Re-Dye Club) - 12 noon (Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn)
6/21 - Sip & Sew with Black Girls Sew -7pm (Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn)
Repair Remix & Rewear: Full calendar
Includes regular / recurring events in NYC & virtual
🍬 = budget-friendly events ($15 and under)
6/19 - Denim Mending @ Brooklyn Craft Company (NYC) - SOLD OUT
6/21 - Summer Solstice Natural Yarn Dyeing Workshop (NYC)
6/21 - 🍬 Natural Dyes: Summer Solstice - Indigo Dyeing @ Brooklyn Public Library, Greenpoint (NYC)
6/22 - Clothing Swap ♡ A Spring Potluck Affair (NYC)
6/24 - Jenny Cooper: Visible Mending (NYC)
6/28 - Visible Mending Cuffs & Edges Tutorial with Collingwood-Norris (Virtual)
6/29 - Introduction to Darning: Live Zoom Workshop with Collingwood-Norris (Virtual)
7/1 - 🍬 Mending and Sewing Workshop @ NYPL, 67th St (NYC)
7/5 - Denim Mending @ Brooklyn Craft Company (NYC)
7/9 - 🍬 Mending Club @ Lagoon (NYC)
7/14 - Print Club: Textile Printing (NYC)
7/29 - 🍬 Mending and Sewing Workshop @ NYPL, 67th St (NYC)
July - Sew Green Fashion Camp w/ Black Girls Sew (ages 5 & 6) (NYC)
July & August - Sew Green Fashion Camp 2025 w/ Black Girls Sew (ages 7 & up) (NYC)
8/7 - Visible Darning & Mending with a Loom @ Brooklyn Craft Company (NYC)
9/27 - Sustainable Sewing: Boro Embroidery & Visible Mending @ Brooklyn Public Library, Greenpoint (NYC)
Multiple - Silkscreen Collage @ Atelier Jolie (NYC)
Multiple - TOAST x Eva Joan Repair Shop Embroidery (NYC)
Multiple - Alterations Workshop with Brooklyn Sewing Academy (NYC)
Multiple - Sewing Upcycling Workshop with New Renaissance Arts Center of NY (NYC)
Multiple - Visible Mending Workshop: Denim Upcycling with The Hoop (NYC)
Multiple - 🍬 Mending Circle @ Knitty City (NYC)
Multiple - Teen + Young Adult Second-Hand Shopping Tour (NYC)
If you’re hosting / aware of an NYC-based or virtual event dedicated to repairing / mending, upcycling, or rewearing your clothes, please reach out - I’d love to include it in this weekly roundup!
First of all, that Loom App is 🔥. I loved looking at all the examples on their IG page. Second, reading these weekly posts makes me want to live in NYC (or London). So many interesting events I’d want to attend in person. I need to figure out who is doing this work here in Portland, Oregon. Thank you for pulling these lists together and for the inspiration!