Inventory for Cheap Monday

On Wednesday, Adrian took me to Korallen, a laundry and dyeing facility located in Kinnarumma with the further purpose of warehousing. It's a very traditional place with Nudie Jeans as one of the main cooperating partners. Next to transmitting inventory electronically, Korallen also offers a manual, analogous service which one could feel while being on site. I personally found it very sympathetic that while being a much asked for company, you still try to be close to the customer and his goods. Nevertheless, due to this demand and increasing popularity, Korallen in collaboration with Nudie Jeans decided to move to Borås to a larger facility with new and bigger opportunities, where also a sewing place will be installed. By this, they support young entrepreneurs in their work.

Visiting the place, however, was motivated by another cause: Adrian got a delivery of discarded working clothes he acquired for a project with Cheap Monday. They are currently testing old sweatshirts and T-Shirts for a redesigned collection and functional trousers are supposed to be turned into bags. Here, Korallen takes care of the washing and colouring of the garments and also serves as the storage place. In dialogue with the designers of Cheap Monday, we created an inventory of all available items, separated them in colour and size and had to sort out what was not in question. Afterward, we went back to Borås to the fashion gallery where some more inventory needed to be done. In general, doing inventory is a very labour intensive and longsome process but knowing the intention behind those garments added a great feeling to it. I really enjoyed the day and am already excited about the results.

I am really happy that next to my initial project, I also have the chance to sneak into other projects, even contributing to them. The status quo of the remanufactured bag by Reused Remade is in progress and next week I'm going to have a meeting with the woman that initialised the whole concept and can give me valuable connections to essential cooperating partners. Looking forward to next week! :-)