Uncommonly Beautiful Recycled Accessories is an anti
landfill fashion accessory label established in 2006 by designer-maker, Kirsty
Kirkpatrick. The pieces demonstrate an imaginative approach to
transforming waste into something covetable and unique. One-off and limited
edition pieces are made from abandoned furniture, wine boxes, suitcases, scrap leather, broken jewellery and fashion industry waste. Traditional textile
and industrial process are applied to these materials, giving them a new lease
of life.
Combining inspiration from the past with graphic patterns and structures from organic forms, the jewellery pieces create fresh, modern and layered stories. Something disregarded has risen in status, something rejected given a dynamic new form.
The brand provokes us to look at waste materials in a different light, challenging our perceptions of what we consider broken or useless and creating new, fresh, modern fashion forward products.
