We get asked this often, what happens to all the mock pieces we create during fittings?

The truth is, they’ve never felt like something we could simply throw away. Each mock holds a part of the process, a trial, a mistake, a breakthrough, a moment where something started to make sense. Discarding them has never sat right with us.

In the earlier days, we would pass these pieces on to a small group of women who worked with fabric in the most patient, hands-on way. They would sit for hours, manually shredding every bit of cloth, turning what was once a structured form into something soft and formless. That fabric would then find its way into the insides of toys and small objects, hidden, but still carrying a purpose.

There was something incredibly grounding about that, the slowness of it, the care it required, the idea that nothing was really wasted, just transformed.

As time moved on, and as technology found its way into these processes, we began collaborating more closely, both with this same cluster of women and with Respun. Today, the leftover pieces are broken down further, shredded into fibre, and reimagined into home goods and other products. The scale has changed, the method has evolved, but the intention remains the same.

To see something that once felt like an “extra” become something functional again… it does something to you.

There’s a quiet kind of joy in that cycle, in knowing that what was once part of a bride’s journey continues on, just in another form.

— Karan & Leon, Karleo
A quiet balance of heart and mind.