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Elvis & Kresse at Pure London

July 26, 2016

We had a fascinating discussion this weekend at Pure, the UKs leading fashion tradeshow. It takes place two times a year at Olympia, in London. The topic was Fashion Takes Responsibility and centered on how the panelists have each responded to, or indeed, have initiated positive trends in the fashion industry. I loved how the panel included a genuine cross section of the industry: retailer, campaigner and designer.

Merryn Leslie, founder of 69b, has decades of experience in buying, styling and retailing. She has unique insights into what customers want, what engages them and in particular what makes them care. It was this word, care, that kept rising to the surface. Her customers want great design and quality, but they are also very curious. Where was this made, who made it, what is it made from. Does this product care for the environment or the craftspeople who made it? The buyer cares. They want to be a part of positive stories. They want to be able to articulate and share.

Tamsin Lejeune, founded the Ethical Fashion Forum 10 years ago. She has seen many brands come and go but is buoyant about the current opportunities for scale. She sees how many traditional brands are working hard to catch up, to understand, and be part of where the true innovation in fashion really is. I also got the distinct impression that she wants us to move faster and be braver about how we communicate. Now is not the time to be quiet about positive change. We need to shout.

And then there was us, Elvis & Kresse, and our 10 years of experience. For us sustainability means being able to work, forever, in the way we work today. It means we will protect and cherish natural resources, that we build to last and are happy to repair. It means that any success we have needs to be shared across our stakeholders and supply chain. Our customers care about this story, and although we have been quite subtle about it over the last 10 years we are ready to take up Tamsin's challenge to be bold. We will get better at celebrating what we do and how we do it. We will raise our voice.

If you would like to learn more, you are welcome to visit the home of Elvis & Kresse at Tonge Mill. We are an hour from London by train. Just get in touch and we can arrange a date.

Elvis & Kresse Leather Rugs are Launched with FLOR

October 14, 2015

Kresse is currently in New York where we are launching our leather rugs with FLOR, it is an exciting collaboration with a company that shares our environmental values and goals to create a circular economy.

There is a little bit of Britain in SOHO tonight, with Pimms, Union Jack FLOR tiles... This is going to be so much fun!

Bowlerman

June 05, 2015

The weather was mixed for this first of the May Bank Holidays, but that didn’t stop The Bowlerman from, touring around with our Weekend Bag. If you want to see what else he has been up to, check out thebowlerman on Instagram.

GREAT Social Enterprises

February 26, 2015

Elvis & Kresse featured with some of our fantastic fellow social enterprises, Jamie Oliver's Fifteen and Belu Water.

Sustainable Luxury and Social Entrepreneurship

June 30, 2014

Heading to Madrid on July 1st for the launch of a new book Sustainable Luxury and Social Entrepreneurship and the awards for Sustainable Luxury. We can't wait to meet the other Pioneers and collect our copy, we are very proud to have been asked to contribute a chapter to the book!

Sustainable Luxury and Social Entrepreneurship

Sustainable Luxury Chapter

Elvis & Kresse Win the IE Award for Sustainability

June 10, 2014

Last week Kresse was in Madrid, to help launch a book we contributed a chapter for and also, unexpectedly, to receive the IE Award for Sustainability in Luxury. Here she is, among other winners, including Loewe, Soneva and the Danish Fashion Institute. Alexandra Cousteau presented the awards and was a big part of the whole week. Meeting the jury, IE staff, former winners and other Sustainable Luxury Pioneers definitely made us feel that this is a movement going from strength to strength. The venue for the awards was ideal - with recycled cardboard instead of steel as support beams - it was our first introduction to the work of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.

Elvis & Kresse IE Award

Elvis & Kresse Featured in The Guardian

May 23, 2014

Elvis & Kresse were featured in the Guardian as part of the Live Better Challenge. Click on the photo to see the piece by Bibi van der Zee

Elvis & Kresse Receive Positive Luxury's Blue Butterfly

March 01, 2013

Elvis & Kresse are very proud to have been awarded the Positive Luxury Blue Butterfly, a mark of Positive Living awarded to best in class brands and companies that have a positive impact on people and the planet. Read more…

Positive Luxury

Ben & Jerry's Awards

August 01, 2012

Elvis & Kresse have reached the finals of Ben & Jerry’s Join Our Core Business Competition. Elvis pitched to a panel of judges in the filming set for the Dragon's Den - he gave a good account of himself and we got selected to go through to the next stage.