Salvation Army recycled clothing goes on sale in TOPSHOP

Designer clothes made from recycled textiles will go on sale next week in TOPSHOP’s flagship store on Oxford Street. The new clothing range, Emmeline 4 Re by talented young designer Emmeline Child, has been sourced from textiles from The Salvation Army’s Recycling Trading Company and Kettering Textiles in Northamptonshire.

Emmeline is one of a select group of young designers to have a concession in the Oxford Street store and it could represent the first time that clothes from recycled textiles have been sold by a major high street retailer. The ‘ eco-friendly’ collection goes on sale next week as part of TOPSHOP’s refurbishment of the concessions floor. The items will include jackets, blouses, dresses, scarves, hat and mittens. All the profits from the range will go The Salvation Army.

“I’m over the moon and it still hasn’t sunk in,” Emmeline commented. “My Emmeline 4 Re collection is a huge honour for me, Kettering Textiles and The Salvation Army Trading Company.”

Emmeline Child has been working with The Salvation Army’s Trading Company and Kettering Textiles since July 2004 having graduated from the University of Northampton with a BA (Hons) in Fashion. During her studies she gained much experience from working with Ben Di Lisi and Elspeth Gibson.

Emmeline is working at Kettering Textiles/Salvation Army Trading Company, employed by The University of Northampton as one of their staff, on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP). This is a national programme organised by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), where academics give their expertise to provide a solution for a particular area or problem.

“We are delighted for Emmeline that her own label goes on sale in TOPSHOP,” commented Nick Morton from The Salvation Army Trading Company. “It’s a really exciting development to be selling clothes from recycled textiles on Oxford Street and great that the value of recycling is being recognised in this way. Perhaps it won’t be too long before we are seeing recycled clothing on every high street!”

The Emmeline 4 Re label goes on sale at TOPSHOP Oxford Street on Sunday 9 October. 

Photos courtesy of Northampton Chronicle and Echo.

Notes to Editors:

• Salvation Army Press Office:
  Sarah Miller, National Press Officer Tel: 020 7367 4702 / 07801 198439, email sarah.miller@salvationarmy.org.u k  
  Cathy le Feuvre, Regional Communications Co-ordinator, Tel: 020 7367 4516/ 07717 448232
  
• TOPSHOP Press Office:
  Jill Gate, Tel: 020 7291 2471, Email jill.gate@arcadiagroup.co.uk
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• The Salvation Army is an international Christian church working in 111 countries worldwide. As a registered charity, The Salvation Army demonstrates its Christian principles through social welfare provision and is one of the largest, most diverse providers of social welfare in the world. In the UK, The Salvation Army runs 50 residential centres for homeless men and women offering a range of resettlement services and training opportunities as well as offering local support through its 750 church and community centres.

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