BEEN London We make accessories entirely from recycled materials, handmade in East London. You can read more about our materials here.

We are a London-based group of designers, journalists, photographers and sustainability experts united by the idea of doing something about our everyday waste. All our products are made of materials that make us squeak with delight - think leather offcuts turned into premium recycled leather, beautiful paper made of disposable coffee cups and even gorgeous zips made of those used plastic bottles w

e are all guilty of using. Our philosophy is based on making everyone part of the solution. We believe that by making everyday choices every one of us can make a huge difference. So we are creating products people want at a price they can afford, so the more we sell, the more waste we can take out of the system. We put all our profits back into BEEN to make ethical essentials more accessible and - in our ideal world - mainstream. We work with the world's most innovative teams and technologies to make our products of the most sustainable recycled materials. The leather used in our bags uses 80 times less water than needed to make a virgin leather bag! We hope you'll enjoy your BEEN products for decades to come, and we are about to launch a recycling scheme, so that you can send us your end of life BEEN products and we make sure their story continues as something else. And we promise to only make essentials, the things you would need to buy anyway, so that living sustainably becomes a part of your daily life and not just a luxury add-on. We'd love to hear from you, so please do get in touch. And we hope you love our products as much as we do.

This whole Black Friday noise is quite deafening, isn’t it? We decided to go the other way and help you choose slow, con...
28/11/2025

This whole Black Friday noise is quite deafening, isn’t it? We decided to go the other way and help you choose slow, conscious craftsmanship over unsustainable madness.

We think that one of the best wasy to go against overproduction is with a wonderful, bespoke piece, lovingly handcrafted by our London-based artisans just for you.

Pre-order our bestselling Calvert Tote this weekend at a reduced price and we’ll add a free personalisation to your piece - your initials, carefully debossed onto the bag.

🏆 WE WON! Best Circular Fashion Initiative!Over the moon to report that we were named the Winner for Best Circular Fashi...
24/11/2025

🏆 WE WON! Best Circular Fashion Initiative!

Over the moon to report that we were named the Winner for Best Circular Fashion Initiative at this year’s Future Icons Awards! AND came second in the Best Responsible Accessories brand category, with being a more than deserving winner.

You must be wondering what the winning circularity initiative was. For as long as the brand exist we’ve been trying to address the normous problem of post-consumer footwear. Shoes are simply not designed for disassembly, making it a nightmare to separate and extract valuable materials.

The award-winning project is the result of our partnership with the great guys at in the Netherlands. Together, we designed and made a three-piece collection ENTIRELY from old shoes. The soles became foam and padding, the uppers became new fabric and lining, and so on.

More on the project and the pieces we made - see link in bio.

Thank you to and the brilliant panel of judges.

Huge congrats to all the fellow winners!

Responsible Womenswear Brand
Best Circular Fashion Innovation (last 24 months) .London x
Responsible Accessories Brand (not including jewellery)
Responsible Footwear Brand
Responsible Lingerie, Swim or Activewear Brand - Step One
Responsible Multi-Brand Retailer Badger
Service Contributing to Fashion Circularity
Editor’s Choice

We’re in  today alongside some great likeminded brands       and  It’s a brilliant piece by  and answers the million dol...
13/11/2025

We’re in today alongside some great likeminded brands and

It’s a brilliant piece by and answers the million dollar question - ‘Is It Possible to Build a Fully Traceable Outfit?’ We think it is!

It features our collab with .pasture.leather - do check them out! A very unusual move for us to work with real leather. But there’s a reason. We chose to highlight the parts of the hides that are considered less desirable or avoided altogether by the mainstream fashion industry. We think these are the best parts, full of character and story.

This version of our bestselling XL Calvert and Annis are available to preorder until this Sunday on the .pasture.leather website. We’ll then make all orders in our London workshop and ship in early December.

📸 Vogue Business

A new commission. This is what used yoghurt pots and plastic packaging can be transformed into.  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀We’ve been qui...
01/10/2025

A new commission. This is what used yoghurt pots and plastic packaging can be transformed into.
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We’ve been quiet here for a while. Mostly because our design studio work and multiple material innovation projects have kept us busier than ever! We’ll try to make time to share a few of these projects with you in the next few weeks. The key principle of what we do never changed - we still design and make beautiful pieces from what has been discarded and showcase what is possible without continuous extraction of materials. The shape of what we make and the materials has been constantly evolving.
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Our latest work is for
Their amazing Visa Everywhere Pioneers award spotlights the brilliance of displaced women, their creativity and achievements in their new countries. Please do spend a few minutes reading about their incredible journeys here - https://lnkd.in/dpRfDeyN
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Design: BEEN
Recycled content: 100%
Materials: Recycled yoghurt pots and single use packaging by
CNC and printing
140kg of plastics given a new life
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More on our website, link in bio.

Another material innovation bit of work we did with the brilliant guys at .biomaterials   A version of our Calvert Tote ...
10/07/2025

Another material innovation bit of work we did with the brilliant guys at .biomaterials

A version of our Calvert Tote made entirely from a by-product of making beer and whiskey. A beautiful, circular and plastic-free material masterminded in London’s historic beer mile.

This piece was for ‘s Future Fabrics Expo during Climate Action Week.

We absolutely love being able to help bring some of the most exciting new generation materials to life - it’s been wonderful to join forces with Arda. Not yet commercially available, but our Calvert Tote is available online in the most stunning CACAO.

Your chance to grab a bargain. Our biggest sale yet, up to 50% off is now live.
02/02/2025

Your chance to grab a bargain. Our biggest sale yet, up to 50% off is now live.

PETA approved, vegan, timeless. Shop our silver birch collection of gifts for the vegans and veggies in your life.
01/12/2024

PETA approved, vegan, timeless. Shop our silver birch collection of gifts for the vegans and veggies in your life.

28/11/2024

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