Story Wear offers a proven and scalable upcycling solution to help large fashion brands and textile mills address problems of overproduction, unsold inventory, and textile waste.
As Europe tightens regulations around textile waste and unsold inventory, fashion brands need circular solutions that are both credible and creative. Story Wear works closely with other fashion brands and mills to transform excess stock and deadstock into thoughtful, design‑led collections with real impact.
Our upcycling ecosystem in Taiwan combines skilled craftsmanship with AI‑assisted automated sorting and pattern making, allowing us to upcycle at meaningful scale without sacrificing quality.
Just as importantly, we treat every project as a design collaboration, including co‑developing concepts, aesthetics, and narratives with our brand partners to ensure each collection aligns with their creative DNA and market needs.
If you’re looking for a partner to co‑create circular collections, meet evolving regulations, and transform surplus into high value stories, we would love to hear from you.
Levi’s partnered with Story Wear to transform post‑consumer denim collected from its stores across Taiwan into new, high value products, demonstrating circular fashion in practice.
Garments unsuitable for resale were sorted, deconstructed, and redesigned by Story Wear, working collaboratively with Levi’s and Taiwanese designer Tsung‑Yu Chan to create the Upcycling collection.
The range reimagined reclaimed denim into jackets, outerwear, and everyday accessories, reusing not only fabric but also original components such as buttons, zippers, rivets, and leather labels.
Each piece was handcrafted by Story Wear’s skilled tailoring teams under a strict zero waste approach, embedding social impact alongside environmental value.
The collaboration shows how a global fashion brand can move beyond recycling toward scalable, design‑led upcycling aligned with circular economy goals.