Christopher Raeburn is one of my favourite new generation designers. Not only are his designs creatively cutting edge they’re also completely recycled from redeployed military fabrics. However his being an ethical, recycling designer was not his aim, it purely happened by happy coincidence. Raeburns reasons for using such fabric, in his own words, are because
“it is functional and waterproof and Secondly, the military always has to overproduce its garments, so there are warehouses with thousands of square feet of military surplus sitting around. For me, giving that a new lease of life is very interesting.
What is available depends on political issues: I use fabric from the UK, Germany and the Czech Republic, but also from the former East Germany, which has a post-cold war feeling. After the first Gulf war there was a fallout of desert camouflage. I spend a lot of time researching the supply, and now my challenge is to find quantities to make my production scalable, to be able to make 100-200 garments, not a handful”.
Christophers Raeburn graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006 and set up his own studio in 2008. Raeburn’s work was handpicked for ‘Camouflage’, an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London; he showcased a capsule collection of reversible garments, titled ‘Inverted’ at London Design Week 08.”
S/S 2009 saw Raeburn take on men’s outerwear and a collaboration with Tim Soar on a men’s catwalk collection, using the parachute fabric. The outcome, winning the International Ethical Fashion Forum’s Innovation competition
In December 09 Raeburn was selected for the esteemed British Fashion Council NEWGEN sponsorship, granting him a NEWGEN exhibition at London Fashion Week A/W 10. This sat alongside a Christopher Raeburn installation for Esthetica at London Fashion Week.
Christopher Raeburn’s collections are highlighted for their intelligent design, high quality and extreme attention to detail. Staunchly British, all Raeburn garments are proudly ‘Remade in England’ and produced in East London.
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The top jacket looks like an image taken in one of those airport scanner machines. Nice, and I like the recycled element especially as he wasn’t all high and mighty about being green.