Ancor Garments transforms second-hand t-shirts into a new upcycled collection

Create a responsible clothing brand, without any new raw materials? That's the challenge facing Ancor Garments, a young French ready-to-wear brand based on a 100% upcycling model. To industrialize its circular approach, it called on Losanje to support it throughout product development. The result: a collection of upcycled t-shirts, made from second-hand textiles, designed to combine design and positive impact.

Project type

Upcycling

Sector

Mode

Usage

Marketing

Year

2025

Key figures

2 700

kg of CO₂ avoided - or 12,000 km by car

675 000

liters of water saved - equivalent to 12,000 showers

750

recycled t-shirts

500

t-shirts created in series

Context

Produce the first eco-responsible collection in series

From the outset, Ancor Garments had a clear direction: to limit its impact as much as possible, using upcycling as the basis for its creations. The brand needed a French textile workshop capable of nimbly accompanying it through the production stages, with a technical and industrialized approach. The challenge: to produce a collection of upcycled garments from recycled textile materials.

process

Designing an upcycled capsule: from idea to industrial production

Losanje's know-how was involved at every stage of the product creation chain: design, prototyping, cutting and final assembly. The second-hand T-shirts collected by Ancor were sorted and transformed according to a rigorous process to optimize the raw material available. The project also enabled the brand to keep production costs under control, thanks to an industrial model.

results

Textile production that is circular, local and economically competitive

Available for pre-order on the Ancor website, this collection is part of a flexible, well-thought-out business model, compatible with the challenges of circularity and rational inventory management. This project also illustrates the ongoing transformation of the fashion industry: more and more brands are now making upcycling their sole manufacturing model. Further proof that industrial upcycling enables responsible, controlled textile production.

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