Vibram x PLNGNS

On February 7, our brand presented our debut streetwear collection at Berlin Fashion Week 
Apart, we would like to talk about our collaboration, which was also shown at our debut fashion show.
Over several years of operating the PLNGNS brand, recycling old shoes and turning them into material for further use, they accumulated quite a lot of unusable, damaged soles that are not suitable for reuse in their original form. 
Collaboration with VibramConnect , where we crushed the old sole into granules, and then VibramConnect in its research center in Milan, created a new sole from the ground-up old sole. Moreover, when pouring the sole, we introduced into it branding details taken from the old shoes that we recycle. There, we received our new sole from Vibram made from ground-up old unusable soles, as well as various parts of old shoes.

ITS Footwear Award powered by Fondazione Ferragamo

Dmytro Hontarenko, the designer of the Ukrainian footwear brand PALINGENESY, has won the International Talents Support (ITS) contest in the Footwear Award nomination supported by Fondazione Ferragamo. The award ceremony took place at the ITS Arcademy Museum of Contemporary Art in Trieste, Italy. The jury said that Hontarenko had “combined research, craftsmanship and attention to sustainability in his project, embracing the challenges of our present time not as obstacles but as incentives, with the spirit of the true creative, like Salvatore Ferragamo”.

Vegan Fashion Week

The negative impact of the fashion industry on the environment is, unfortunately, unpleasantly impressive. It is possible to overcome the current crisis by starting cooperation in the matter of preserving the Earth’s ecology as soon as possible. Vegan Fashion Week is an event that promotes the exchange of experience in this direction. This year, over three days in October, this event turned Los Angeles into the capital of sustainable fashion. Ukrainian Fashion Week became one of VFW’s partners. As part of the “Support Ukrainian Fashion” initiative, UFW presented the images of 11 Ukrainian designers. Among them was the conceptual shoe brand Palingenesy. All participating brands are cruelty-free and sustainable.

Ukrainian Fashion Week х Epson Digital Fashion Lab

During the Ukrainian Fashion Week FW22-23, twenty graduates of the Epson Digital Fashion Lab educational project presented collections of their own brands. A new era of young Ukrainian designers is rising to the top of the increasingly saturated fashion industry. Each of the 20 participants of Digital Fashion Lab, a joint project of Epson and Ukrainian Fashion Week, presented their original printed collections.

PLNGNS x RIOT DIVISION

Bring an old pair of sneakers and participate in the development of unique recycled shoes for RIOTDIVISION. In August 2021, we installed a box to collect used shoes in the RIOTDIVISION concept store, which were disassembled and will be used in our future works, and as part of the campaign we created two pairs of sneakers that were used by RIOTDIVISION. The finale of this collab is a raffle of sneakers among the audience of the brand, but unfortunately, due to the full-scale invasion of the russian federation on February 24, 2022, this did not happen, so we hope that the collab will be finalized in the future.