We are honoured to be featured in Billie Eilish’s sustainable fashion Guide in our City !

Cultural sustainability agency BLACK PEARL has created a sustainable fashion guide for the European tour of Billie Eilish HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR – an invitation to explore each tour stop more consciously and creatively, through local fashion solutions.

Billie’s European tour will touch 17 cities: Stockholm, Copenhagen, Hannover, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, Prague, Krakow, Vienna, Bologna, Paris, Barcelona, Glasgow, London, Manchester and Dublin.

For each of these cities, the cultural sustainability agency BLACK PEARL has curated 17 different guides to spotlight local fashion gems — from independent designers and vintage stores to repair spaces and community-led initiatives — with the purpose of highlighting those doing powerful work in sustainability. 

 

The Circular Atelier Amager has  been included to represent Copenhagen and the inspiring ways it’s showing up – through intention, practicality or cultural rhythm. 

These guides are an invitation to celebrate what’s happening close to home, support the bigger conversation on sustainability, or simply discover something new. We are Grateful to be part of this moment. 

Sustainable fashion is a process built on small, intentional choices. 

It is found in a Vintage jacket that carries a history, a local design focused on ethics or  workshop where you can learn to repair rather than replace or discard.

The guides are a starting point. In each city find curated local spaces, makers and initiatives helping to shape a more thoughtful and responsible fashion future.

Explore the COPENHAGEN GUIDE below
All the guides here https://withblackpearl.com/billieeilish/

Why Amager?

I don’t know if you know Amager or if you’ve ever heard of it. 

Amager is a neighborhood of the city of Copenhagen located on one of the islands that make up the city itself. Yes, Copenhagen, which has always been a seaport, extends over three different islands and each neighborhood of the city is different from the other. 

After moving here I lived in almost every neighborhood, but in Amager, I found for the first time a deep sense of community and connection between people. 

It is a very diversified neighborhood, where there are many small original shops. 

There are those who sell fruit and vegetables, there are those who sell their own canvases, there are those who work with wood, there are those who sell vintage or those who produce body care products in a natural way.

On the east coast of the island there is a beach, on the west a nature reserve. 

Finding something precious, I have chosen to open the Atelier here and to include the name of the island in the name of my studio, because the goal was to create a project that could connect and include the community. 

One June afternoon, a young woman walks into the Atelier, and, a bit surprised, asks how long the business has been open and what kind of services are provided in my workshop.

We chat for a while, and then she introduces herself: she is Karoline Rahbek, currently Chief Advisor and Editor at Verdens Bedste Nyheder, a former model, and a graduate in communication and Danish from the University of Copenhagen, as well as a fashion activist. 

We share a common goal: to raise public awareness about their consumption habits and the possibilities that exist for giving new life to clothing and textiles that we no longer use.
Discovering that there is a segment of the population in town that prefers to repair, alter or re-fashion their garments, instead of buying something new, was positive news for Karoline. 

After photos of various fashion landfills went viral on the web and many began speaking out loudly about the problems caused by fast fashion production, it seems there has been a collective awakening and that something is changing.