A river
that carves
its own path.
Garments made for us to be worn and express ourselves - re-stitched, re-designed, re-imagined. The story of how a small upcycling experiment became a brand, and a question we keep asking ourselves.
Ilya Habdrakhmanov
edm.clothes began as an upcycling project, long before it became a movement, sourcing second-hand pieces, re-tailoring them, giving them new life. It has since grown into a global brand.
Yet we are still discovering who we truly are. Like a river carving its own path, we keep reshaping while moving forward.
This page is the chronicle of that story.
Berlin · Kyiv · Tokyo · LA · Paris · Warsaw
The first steps.
Interception was our first full-fledged collection — nine carefully crafted pieces. Before it, we had been experimenting with upcycling and producing basic items. Interception was our first real attempt at designing and manufacturing a cohesive set of garments at once.
One of the standout pieces was the Loose Fit Pants, a design that has remained one of our most popular to this day. Lightweight fabric, a wide-leg cut, and classic tailoring details like pleats — that foundation was set then, and it still anchors the silhouette today.
Delirium.
Latin: delirium — “madness, delirium”;
deliro — “to rave, to be insane”
Delirium marked the first time we used a self-designed graphic for a print. With it, we transitioned to silk-screen printing and embroidery for mass production, our first proper step into graphic apparel.
Abyss · Ablepsia · Eclipse.
A trilogy of darker collections. We stopped asking what fashion should look like and started asking what it could mean — through culture, ideas and references. For insane The Eclipse Vests lunar imagery referenced Berserk by Kentaro Miura; the castle and monstrous figures came from Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The War.
February 2022 changed everything. The studio went dark. Some pieces never made it to release. Production however stayed inside Ukraine. Supporting local manufacturers, even now, was non-negotiable.
The year of jeans.
We took denim apart and put it back together — as deconstructed silhouettes. The Scars Hoodie came out of the same process, almost by accident. The sample shrunk past our spec; instead of scrapping it, we kept the sharper, slimmer cut. Worn with the wide-leg jeans, it became a set.
Riot.
The Riot Bomber was the most ambitious project we'd ever taken on. Outerwear is a whole new level of complexity, so we approached this as a collaboration with Alex Cartel. A detachable hood, adjustable cinched sleeves, Thinsulate insulation. Visually striking. Highly functional.
Unrealised.
The pieces that didn't make it. Sketches, prototypes, ideas put on hold. Sometimes the things we don't ship say more about us than the ones we do.
edm.clothes in pictures.
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