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Collection made from coffee bags
www.re-hats.com ReHats
Upcycling is not just practised with one-off pieces: it is also done on a larger scale in the headwear industry. The German brand ReHats specialises in finding and upcycling materials to create unique and outstanding hat and cap collections. Owners Stefan Korn and Stanislaus Teichmann already worked in the upcycling industry before they started ReHats
in 2018. The idea to start producing headwear from reused materials came from a hat designer they befriended in Berlin. Marketing manager Iulia
Mitzner says that ReHats is probably still best known from the ‘coffee bag’ hats and caps collection they started with. “We get coffee bags directly from roasteries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. They arrive from all over the world filled with fresh green coffee beans, which are being roasted in Europe. The bags are used one time only as it costs too much to transport them back to the countries
Hat decorated with unused leftover fabric
www.instagram.com/missymalone Missy Malone
Missy Malone is a Scottish burlesque performer based in central England. She is known throughout Europe for her high calibre performances that fuse classic 1950s pin-up girl style and modern rock energy. Missy has
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been a fan of vintage fashion for as long as she has been old enough to choose her own clothing. Her parents had a love for shopping in charity shops, jumble sales and antique fairs, so she was brought up buying second-hand clothing.
they came from when they are empty. It is a win-win situation for the roasteries and for us to make something ‘new’ and nice out of them after their original use. “All our headwear is made
from upcycled materials and partly from unused leftovers of the fashion industry. The denim and workwear that we use for our Goldrausch (gold rush) and Gewerkschaft (workwear)
Malone’s Vintage store
Edition is supplied by a social project here in Berlin. The organisation collected too many clothes and especially had difficulty finding new wearers for the special-sized items. We don’t care about odd sizes as we deconstruct the clothes anyway to reuse the fabric and make fantastic hats and caps that tell about their former life.” So far, ReHats hasn’t used new materials for the creation
Photo: Cherry Bomb Rock Photography
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