Made From Upcycled Denim
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Engraved aerial view of Lagos Island ringed by bridges
Brand & interface system · v1.0

Turning rescued denim into fashion accessories

01 · The premise

Sustainability + Craftmanship

Denim arrives already used. It has a colour it earned, a weave that has moved, seams that were cut for someone else. Everything we make keeps that legible.

Each piece is cut from denim rescued in Lagos, then finished by hand — one of one, never repeated. What the jean already earned stays on the outside: back pockets, selvedge, bleach marks, the fade of somebody else’s decade.

Principle 01Salvage is the storyShow wear, seams and irregularity. Never retouch denim into uniformity.
Principle 02Printed, not litFlat ink, hairline rules, hatched tone. No drop shadows, gradients or glass.
Principle 03Lagos is the groundPlace is named plainly: bridges, markets, the mainland. No exoticism.
02 · This week

One of one, priced plainly

All lots
Model in a brown coat holding a large upcycled denim tote made from jean panelsLOT 014 · One of one
03 · Lot in focus

Lagos Tote

Five pairs of jeans, cut down to their four best panels. The back pockets stay where they were sewn, so the bag reads as what it was. Handles are folded from the waistbands of the same pairs.

Cold hand wash. Dry flat, in shade. Repairs at our Lagos atelier, for the life of the piece — we don’t reprint a lot, so we keep the one you have going.

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Engraved view of the Third Mainland Bridge across the lagoon

Rescued on the mainland, finished on the island

Tuntunre · SS26
04 · How a lot is made

Three hands, one number

Nothing here is manufactured twice. A lot is a finite run of one, logged the day it is finished.

  1. 01RescuedDenim is sourced from Katangua and Yaba, sorted by weight and fade, then washed cold.
  2. 02CutPanels are cut around what the jean already earned: back pockets, selvedge, bleach marks.
  3. 03FinishedSewn and double-stitched by hand in the Lagos atelier, numbered, then logged as a lot of one.
05 · New lots

We post when a lot is cut

One note per drop, listing what was rescued and how many pieces came out of it. No sales, no sermon.

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