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Leather UK teams up with Mary’s Living and Giving to breathe new life into leather pieces

Trade association Leather UK has announced a repair and restore collaboration with Mary’s Living and Giving Shops for Save the Children, aimed at breathing new life into leather pieces found in its charity shops. In a first-of-its-kind partnership, Leather UK members have expertly restored a range of leather bags found in the charity shops to...

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Perfect Moment launches new repair service

High-performance, luxury skiwear and lifestyle brand Perfect Moment is teaming up with United Repair Centre to offer a new bespoke repair service for its customers across the UK and Europe. The ‘Perfect for Longer’ service will replace zips and poppers, add discreet patching, and a clean and refresh service for down items. Garment repairs will...

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Veja opens its first London store

French sustainable trainer brand Veja has opened its first store in London in the centre of Seven Dials. Located at 45 Monmouth Street, between Covent Garden and Soho, the 1,475 square foot store offers the brand's range of footwear alongside an in-store cobbler station for repairs and cleaning of sneakers and shoes from any brand. Veja...

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Veja opens first in-house store cobbler in the US

French sustainable trainer brand Veja is opening its second location in New York City in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, today, April 9, featuring its first in-house cobbler in the US. Veja Brooklyn store Credits: Veja The new 2,300 square-foot space features original brick walls, concrete floors and wooden ceilings with wooden benches and plaster...

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Dr. Martens launches new repair service

British footwear brand Dr. Martens has teamed up with footwear restorers The Boot Repair Co. to launch a new repair service in the UK to prolong the life of its boots, shoes, sandals, and accessories. The authorised repairs will utilise the same machines, methods and materials used on new pairs of Dr. Martens and will offer more than 10...

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Veja opens a repair shop in Paris

French sustainable trainer brand Veja has opened its first standalone sneaker “repair temple” in Paris. Known as the ‘General Store,’ the repair shop is located at 11 Rue de Marseille and offers cobbler and tailoring services to fix and extend the life of sneakers and clothing for any brand. Designed to act as a hub of sustainability, the store...

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Sojo opens permanent space in Selfridges

London-based clothing alterations and repairs platform Sojo, which connects users with local seamster businesses, has opened its first permanent concession in Oxford Street's Selfridges. The B-Corp-certified fashion-tech platform, founded by Josephine Philips in 2021, will offer repair and alterations from its concession located within the...

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Otrium and Bleckmann extend garment repair partnership

Otrium, the digital fashion outlet tackling excess inventory, is launching a dedicated garment refurbishment and repair programme for damaged returns following a successful pilot scheme with Bleckmann's team of circular fashion experts from The Renewal Workshop. The initiative will be run in partnership with logistics specialist Bleckmann and...

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Primark rolls out repair workshops and commissions durability research

Fast-fashion retailer Primark is looking to educate its consumers on how to repair their clothes with a series of durability and repair initiatives to help clothes “be loved and worn for longer”. The move is part of the retailer’s commitment to give clothes a longer life and will include scaling up Primark’s free clothing repair workshops...

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Toast launches collection of “creatively repaired” pieces

Fashion and lifestyle brand Toast has launched a collection of one-of-a-kind “creatively repaired pieces for increased longevity” to demonstrate “the beauty in the process of repairs”. The Toast Renewed collection features womenswear and menswear garments, as well as soft textiles, which have been mended by the brand’s repair specialists. Each...

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Net-A-Porter teams up with The Seam to offer repair service

Luxury online retail group Yoox Net-A-Porter is launching its first dedicated customer care and repair service in partnership with clothing repairs and alterations service The Seam. The ‘Repair & Rewear’ scheme will offer clothing alterations and repairs, bespoke customisations, and care and repair for handbags, footwear, and jewellery, as the...

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Berghaus refreshes free repairs service

British outdoor brand Berghaus has announced that it is championing repairs over replacing with a relaunch of the free repairs service it has offered since established 56 years ago. The ‘Repairhaus’ service will see the brand attempting to repair any damaged Berghaus clothing, footwear, or pack accessory, “however old, worn or weathered the item...