An up-cycled capsule collection by Pure Fabrications. Using excess garments and fabrics from our archive collections, deconstructed and re-imagined as entirely new and unique pieces - transcending season cycles and mass production.

Curved Tee

Curved Long Sleeve Tee

Striped Long Sleeve Tee

Striped Hoodie

Re-Imagined Project

In this collection, we only use 100% organic pima cotton produced without fertiliser or pesticide from indigenous Peruvian seeds. The characteristic longer and silkier fiber compared to traditional cotton makes the garment softer and smoother to touch.

Waffle Crew Neck

Baseball T-shirt

Track Jacket

Long Sleeve T-shirt

Waffle T-shirt

Funnel Neck Sweat

Natural Pima Cotton Project

The collection with the finest Alpaca fibre in a partnership with Pacomarca Alpaca Research Facility. Alpaca fibre has a variety of functions unique to wild animals.

Baseball Shirt

Alpaca Project

The collection in a partnership with factories and workshops which succeeds the heritage of Japanese craftsmanship in the region of Tohoku. Every part of this garment is produced in the Tohoku region to support small craft rich businesses after the devastating Earthquake in 2011.

Bacar Okinawa

Summer Trouser

Summer Jacket

Aizome Pocket Tee

Henry T-shirt

Tohoku Project

A collaborative capsule collection with Adish and Pure Fabrications. The hand embroidery is an ancient traditional Palestinian craft. Each product is completely unique in its patchwork structure and tone of its naturally dyed colour.

"ONE LOVE"

"GET UP STAND UP"

Tatreez Project

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The Inoue Brothers is a design/art studio based on a common love for two cultures, Japanese sensibility and Scandinavian simplicity. They call it Scandinasian design.

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This project represents our passion and mission to produce the finest alpaca knitwear and accessories in the world.

Country and region

Material

Baby Alpaca / Royal Alpaca / Supreme Royal Alpaca / Natural Black Alpaca

Quality

Micron range

We only source from traditionally herded alpaca through fair and direct trade with complete traceability throughout the supply chain.

Sustainability

Empowerment of the indigenous people in the Andes through fair and direct trade, healthcare and education.

Mission

Since 2006 we have travelled the South American Andes. Through this journey we have forged a partnership with Pacomarca Alpaca Research Facility to produce the finest alpaca fibre in the world.

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[Pacomarca](https://pacomarca.com/en/) is a research facility created due to the steady decline in the fine alpaca fibre production over the past 30 years in the Andean regions. The heritage, culture and way of life for the indigenous communities in these rural and harsh environments has been jeopardised through government abandonment resulting in lack of support from educational organisations and investment for the poorest people in the country. More than five million indigenous people live below the poverty line in the highlands of Peru.

Rural women are the worst affected and nearly 70 per cent of them are extremely poor. Rural women play an important role in the subsistence economy. They work in agriculture and tend livestock, such as alpacas, and they engage in income-generating activities. Women may represent as much as 80 per cent of a family’s labour force and thanks to their productive activities, in addition to traditional household tasks and child-care, women make it possible for their husbands to migrate in search of temporary work, often in the growing mining industry.  

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The people of the Andes

Empowerment of women

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The Pacomarca project endeavours to breed pedigree alpacas, using state-of-the-art technology and specialised veterinarian personnel. Here they have created systems and hold seminars for the herding communities teaching basic shearing techniques and fibre sorting procedures, which empowers the herders with knowledge to generate a much greater income from their existing herds. As this is a vital aspect for fine alpaca fibre production, the herders have the opportunity to increase their revenue from the raw fibre without having to invest in expensive equipment. The motive and intention behind this initiative is purely to better the raw fibre needed for the fine-fibre market’s demand and to incentivise the indigenous communities’ original way of life without splitting families to create economic stability.

Our relationship with Pacomarca has resulted in a special partnership to produce the finest alpaca fibre available in the world. Together with new ideas and projects to create further income generating opportunities for the indigenous communities, we and Pacomarca endeavour to be in the vanguard of the fine-fibre production in The Andes.

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The mission

The finest alpaca

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Alpacas have been domesticated for over 5.000 years by the indigenous people of South America, for their exceptionally fine wool. The Incas, who once ruled the natural environment of the alpaca (Peru, Bolivia and Chile), spun the remarkable fibre to produce luxurious fabrics exclusively for their divine royalty.

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Alpaca fleece is soft and contains almost no lanolin, which makes it hypoallergenic. The unique hollow core of the fibre gives the alpaca wool a natural insulation that keeps in or lets out body heat according to body warmth and the temperature of the surrounding environment.

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The warmth of nature

Our alpaca project was the beginning of our journey in working out how to realise a supply of truly unique quality of products without any exploitation throughout the supply chain. It is our case study into everything our mission and vision has been built on.

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In 2019 we introduced our first cotton collection using 100% natural Pima cotton. 
100% natural means indigenous Peruvian Pima cotton seeds grown without any chemical fertiliser or pesticides. This project confirms a more symbiotic production and supply of cotton is possible showcasing the power of nature through fabrics with beautiful shine, soft hand feel, and strong durability.

Free of chemical fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides and defoliants.

Empowerment of local organic cotton farmers.

We first travelled to South America in 2004 in search of the finest fibres in the world. This was the starting point of our flagship Alpaca and Vicuña collections. In 2019, fifteen years later, we discovered that the original source of what we know as Pima cotton today also originated from Peru. Indigenous communities grew Pima and other species of cotton widely throughout South America. The first clear sign of domestication of these cotton species dates back to 4200 BCE.

Conventional cotton is the most polluting crop in the world, it uses around 16% of the world's insecticides and 6% of all pesticides. These chemicals lose their efficiency every 5-6 years as the soil becomes barren and insects develop immunity forcing big agricultural producers to develop more powerful and toxic chemicals. Many of these have been identified as cancer-causing chemicals endangering the lives of farmers and their families, as well as all the humans that use cotton products, as most of these toxins are never fully eliminated.


Organic cotton has the advantage of being produced in soil free of chemical fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides and defoliants; opposite from conventional cotton. The result is an expression that an alternative more symbiotic supply of cotton is possible.

Our cotton supply partner in Peru is producing organic cotton under strict organic textile standards. It has strict environmental criteria through the entire supply chain including compliance with social responsibility.
This standard not only guarantees the traceability of the organic cotton that is used, but also the standard of fair treatment to every person involved in the production chain.

Only through drastic agricultural changes, which are very difficult to establish, the movement for organically produced cotton can become a reality. Together with our partners in Peru and their efforts in encouraging more farmers to become organic the movement is truly underway.

Today, all garments of the Natural Pima Cotton collection are sewn in Tohoku, Japan.


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Natural Peruvian Pima cotton

Sustainability and Empowerment

The characteristic of Pima cotton is it's longer, silkier fiber compared to traditional cotton. This makes the garment softer and smoother to touch and is produced under strict organic textile standards.

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Our 100% organic pima cotton project celebrates natural indigenous Peruvian pima cotton. No fertiliser or pesticide is used to grow the cotton for this project. The result of this symbiotically produced material is beautiful shine, soft hand feel, and strong durability.

We are a social design studio dedicated to positive change.

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