R Stories–Page 2

R Recycling Process

Call us dreamers, but we believe almost anything is possible! This is just as well, because we’re making the near impossible - possible.

R Products Spotlight: UBS

Meet R Products Luggage Tags made from gorgeous rescued luxury leather waste with an integrated airtag. Like us, they are going places. Check ou...

The Carbon-Cutting ‘Rat Race’

With the climate crisis wreaking havoc - from fires to floods - the fashion industry’s climate impact is increasingly on the chopping block. The fa...

Behind the Glamour

As luxury fashion consumption - and with it unsold garment stock - continues to grow, the heated debate over how to deal with unsold clothes remain...

Championed at the UK Pavilion

Our brilliant luxury-fashion-waste-busting work - if we sat so ourselves! - was spotlighted by the UK Government's Department for Business and Trad...

Rescuing and Redesiging into Leather Waste

When it comes to ethical fashion activists’ opinions, the use of leather in fashion is a bit like marmite - you either love it or hate it. Despite ...

R Product Spotlight: Recycled textile hangers with Levi’s® Hong Kong

We joined forces with Levi's® Hong Kong to create these purposeful recycled textile hangers, which we made by recycling excess denim waste collecte...

R Textiles Spotlight: Zimmermann

It’s been said that “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Naturally, we agree. That’s because we are in this w...

Bespoke R Products: Meet star sustainable designer transforming complex waste

You know us, we hate waste. This includes materials rescued from luxury fashion businesses - which comes in the thousands of yards of gleamingly br...

R Responsible Products: from C-Suite to Consumers

In the fast-paced world of fashion consumption, trends change in the blink of an eye, leaving behind a trail of textile waste and environmental dev...

A Letter From Our Founder

Dear friends of The R Collective, Wishing you and your loved ones a Happy New Year! We are raring to go with 2024! We are still celebrating an im...

Rescued Leather: A Low Impact Alternative

Leather has become a source of confusion for many shoppers who are trying to take a more conscious approach to their consumption. So is rescued l...