Because our style shouldn't cost the earth.
Anekdot is an up-cycle brand
"A fusion between exquisite nostalgia and sleek comfort for a modern lifestyle. Our intimates wrap your body, revealing and concealing its natural curve. Made from fabrics specially selected for their exclusive touch and long-lasting quality, Anekdot is a love letter to women to wear beautiful intimates that feels good to skin and empower from the inside out without exploiting people and nature."
Transforming waste into luxury, upcycling means that we reclaim our superb materials from fashion industry deadstock, end of lines and off-cuts, turning them into something beautiful and meaningful for your everyday life. We are in perpetual search for new opportunities to source our materials. This could be a closing down factory, maker’s surplus, production errors or miscalculations. The materials we use have never been previously worn, but we thought we’d give them a new chance to be enjoyed. Besides that we love to breathe a new life into forgotten textiles which are otherwise destined to landfill, we also save emissions in comparison to producing new materials. And as a cherry on top of the cake our upcycled products are always limited editions, making you feel extra special.
Currently 90% of our surplus materials are sourced and made in Italy, from a supplier certified with Oekotex standard 100 and whom utilizes the Higg Index to measure and grow its sustainability practices. This company was also the first company in the sector in Europe to convert all its lace production to ROICA™ EF recycled elastomer by Asahi Kasei and the first to obtain the GRS Global Recycled Standard certification for its production chain. Hand-picking from this supplier's surplus directly first hand is a real heaven, since upcycling already responsibly made materials, is a really meaningful way to reduce emissions. Their production errors could mean for example that we find a hole every 10 meters or maybe the lace pattern is slightly pulled or maybe the color or elasticity turned out slightly different than how the original client wanted it. Since we hand-cut our patterns we make sure to cut around possible defects and adjust our designs according to the fabrics. A mass producing company who uses laser to cut their pieces would not be able to work with such variations, and they would not find it economically worthwhile to work with such limited quantity of each textile.
The other 10% of our surplus fabrics are sourced from different places, including local designer's surplus, deadstock warehouses in Italy and vintage market finds. The certifications of these materials are sometimes unknown, but the high-end quality and material composition we hardly fail to recognise, thanks to our designer's degree in textile science.
Each piece is dreamed up with purpose and produced with love. Anekdot is committed to collaboration with skilled craftsmen, artisanal techniques, and transparent supply chains. Our production takes place in Berlin or nearby Poland, allowing us to oversee the whole production process, dramatically reduce our carbon footprint, ensure living wages and support local talent. We challenge the industry standard of mass production and value the hands behind our products.