Hul Le Kes / The Netherlands
In Arnhem, the Netherlands, you will find Hul Le Kes. Its own manufacturing studio is based in a former sawmill. Here all its items are made by hand, dyed and despatched to its clients all over the world. In April 2022 Hul Le Kes opened a new, private shopping experience, in an old hardware store in the centre of its hometown.
Hul Le Kes’s founders, Sjaak Hullekes and Sebastiaan Kramer, have been working together for years and wanted to change the system. To create a new paradigm in fashion. Moving away from the superficial looks so prevalent in today’s social media and fashion industry, Hul Le Kes wants to show it is not perfection but imperfection that makes people and clothes interesting and characterful.
Inspired by antiques and art, Hul Le Kes aims to show people another value in fashion. Each Hul Le Kes garment has its own passport, which the wearer can use to write down memories about wearing it. When a garment could do with a new life, the piece can be returned with this passport. at the Hul Le Kes Recovery Studio the item will get a makeover with plant-based dyes and mending services, ready for a new life with a new owner, with its stories attached via the passport.
Hul Le Kes uses only second-hand, vintage, antique and deadstock materials to create new designs. Therefore no two garments will look the same. At its own studio it will dye materials with food waste such as avocado seeds and onions or products found in the forest.
Based in: The Netherlands
