Our Legacy Workshop: A Counter-System for Dressing
by Ellie Hay
Inside Our Legacy’s first London Work Shop the afterlife of a garment is treated as standard business practice.
The repurposing of cloth has always been an integral part of Our Legacy’s make-up — a characteristic that has defined its ready-to-wear collections. A distinction that was further distilled into Our Legacy Work Shop, at a time (2016) when reselling clothes — beyond eBay — was not really a thing; it emerged as a progressive, ‘circular retail platform, atelier, and vessel for collaboration’ long before this behaviour entered the mainstream.
Almost a decade on, the first permanent Our Legacy Work Shop outside of Stockholm has opened in Soho. Take a left off Shaftesbury Avenue at McDonald’s, pass the Windmill’s fading neon, and slip down Smith’s Court into the old horse stables.
Our Legacy Work Shop has made garment care and waste-thinking part of its very being — giving the things we wear meaning beyond the moment of purchase. The Soho space is alive. Artisans are on-site to upcycle, dye, and handcraft garments, reimagining what already exists into one-of-one items. The rails display a continually shifting circulation of stock; archival pieces and reference garments sit alongside new Our Legacy Work Shop drops. The environment facilitates creative exchange, spontaneity, and play. It feels experimental in the most grounded way — not a performance of process, but process in motion.
Our Legacy Work Shop
6 Smiths’ Court
London
W1D 7DN
