Two New York City brands Quiet Town and Alex Mill have teamed up on a collection of jackets and shorts using canvas remnants.
The team at Quiet Town, a bath accessories company in Brooklyn, saves all the remnants of their 100 percent U.S.A.-made canvas from their line, upcycling them under the label Re: Canvas, which has previously offered rag rugs, placemats, tote bags, and pillows.
Now falling under Mill’s Re: Work banner, the collaboration will launch on June 29.
Over 300 pounds of scraps have been upcycled to create a total of 84 shorts and 185 jackets in the brand’s rumpled soft-hand canvas in an array of garment-dyed hues created from watercolors. Retail prices are $95 for a short and $215 for a jacket.
Alex Mill, which was co-founded by Alex Drexler in 2012, has partnered with the Quiet Town founders Lisa and Michael Fine, a photographer, previously for Alex Mill ad campaigns, but this is their first collection together.
The line will be sold at Alex M
ill’s store at 70 Mercer Street in New York as well as Alexmill.com. A few pieces, such as the “sky” jacket and shorts in blue and peach colorway and the “sand” shorts in a neutral colorway will be sold on Quiettown.com.
Alex Mill has done various limited-edition collections. The company’s main collection emphasizes timeless, not trendy, core styles.