Emergency Room

EDITOR'S NOTE

Eric Mathieu Ritter founded Emergency Room in Beirut in 2018, and the premise has not shifted: every garment is built from locally sourced vintage cloth and deadstock, cut and stitched by tailors in Beirut and Tripoli, and made one of a kind by necessity rather than marketing. The result is gender-fluid and conceptually serious, carpets turned into kimonos and hoodies, patchwork tailoring, fringed and bejewelled caps. The Fashion Trust Arabia Franca Sozzani Award followed, but the upcycling here predates the recognition and the crisis it responded to. What earns Emergency Room a place is that the sustainability is structural, not a claim, and the clothes still hold up as clothes.

From Emergency Room.

COLLARLESS TAILORED JACKET (BLACK)

COLLARLESS JACQUARD TAILORED JACKET (BLUE)

LOW WAISTED PANTS IN GOLD LAME

LOW WAISTED PANTS (GREY)

BACKLESS TOP WITH TASSELS (GREEN AND GOLD)

BRALETTE IN LAME (BURGUNDY)

LOW WAISTED PANTS (BLUE CHECKERED)

SAROUEL PANTS WITH ELASTIC WAISTBAND (BROWN WOOL)

BRALETTE IN TABLE LINENS

LONG SLEEVE SHIRT WITH ELASIC HEM (PINK)

LONG SLEEVE SHIRT WITH ELASTIC HEM (PURPLE)

DROPPED SHOULDER SHIRT IN PRINTED DINOSAUR FABRIC

CLASSIC SHIRT WITH MANDARIN COLLAR IN PRINTED FABRIC

SHORT SLEEVE SHIRT IN PRINT (YELLOW)

SLEEVELESS LINEN POLO (PURPLE)

PRINTED POLO (YELLOW)

WRAP PANTS

CARGO PANTS IN NAVY BLUE COOLWOOL

STRAIGHT LEG TROUSERS

CARGO PANTS IN PINK GABARDINE

BOXER PANTS (BLUE STRIPED)

BOXER PANTS (PINK CHECKERED)

BOXER PANTS (PINK STRIPED)

WHITE DENIM WITH CROCHET APPLIQUE (WHITE)

COMBINED TAILORED PANTS (NAVY)

THREE PLEAT PANTS IN BLACK AND WHITE FEATHER PRINT

BALLOON PANTS (BEIGE)

DENIM SHERWEL (BLACK)

PLEATED STRIPED PANTS (BEIGE LAME)

CARGO PANTS IN PRINTED BLUE FABRIC

BOXER PANTS (BLUE)

LOW WAISTED TAPERED PANTS (BEIGE LINEN)

ARABESQUE STRAIGHT CUT PANTS

SQUARE NECK TOP

SHEER CAMISOLE TOP

DRAPED ASYMMETRIC POINTELLE TOP (YELLOW)

FITTED STRIPED HALTER TOP WITH AN OPEN BACK

SHEER TANK TOP WITH A BEJEWELED NECKLINE

DRAPED STRAPY TOP

SCULPTED CORSET STRAPY TOP