05/29/2026
Let me introduce ♻️🌍
This two-piece denim set was discovered in a Laredo warehouse just a few days ago — buried among piles of discarded clothing. The moment I saw it, I knew it was special. That night, I looked up the brand behind it. (This shoot was at the same warehouse pile that I found the set, just to give context).
Cacao Clothing is based in Accra, Ghana, a city at the center of one of the world’s growing textile waste crises. Every week, millions of secondhand garments from the Global North arrive in Ghana, much of it unsellable. Many pieces ultimately end up in landfills, informal dump sites, or washed onto beaches and waterways like Jamestown Beach, where textile and plastic pollution have become impossible to ignore.
But in the middle of that crisis, creativity is thriving. ✨
The talented team at Cacao sources materials from Makola and Kantamanto markets, transforming discarded textiles into bold, reimagined garments with new life and purpose. Their work not only reduces textile waste, but challenges the fast-fashion cycle by proving sustainability and artistry can coexist beautifully.
Finding this piece felt like finding a story — one stitched together across continents through fashion, waste, resilience, and creativity.
This is why I do what I do, and why I created . Honestly, this find is probably the most notable to date. Why? Because of the IRONY of finding a piece meant to have a new lease on life, only to have made its way to Laredo, TX (another epicenter of the world’s textile waste crisis) where it almost became another statistic in the city landfill.
This set will be on the runway during our fashion fundraiser on July 29th at Casa Ortiz. Please follow for updates.
📸 Alexa
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