Ethical Design Lab

From organically grown cotton blended with Seacell, to their water-based silk screens and tailoring produced at the legendary Italian Confesiono Barbon manufacturers, to the carbon neutral shipping of their products, the Munich-based company is dedicated to going all the way green-wise.

"We might be a little bit darker, sexier, and more dangerous than what people are usually used to when it comes to eco fashion," says Mathias Wrba of Blake Hamster.

Their business concept is also interesting. Blake Hamster is a collaborative effort by a loose network of designers, artists, marketeers, journalists, authors and musicians from all over the world. It is their aim to experiment with different products, production processes and distribution models while upholding a set of aesthetic and ethic ground rules.

A Blake Hamster release may take on many forms. Sometimes a range of shirts, next time it could be anything from sweaters to a collection of household wares with a stylish twist, to a magazine or an art-show. But each and every release will be unique in its design, limited in its circulation, of high quality and as ecologically and socially conscious as possible.

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